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Sotheby’s upcoming sale season for Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art includes the storied single owner collection of Virginia and Ravi Akhoury and a curated selection of high quality works from across the region in its annual.
Arts This Week: South Asian Art, A Parallel Road and Nomadland
Maqbool Fida Husain, Untitled, 1986. Oil on canvas. Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2003. E301288. Estate of Maqbool Fida Husain
Jeffrey R. Dykes, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
Arts This Week | February 18, 2021
This week, Jared Bowen takes us through the new, permanent galleries of South Asian Art at the Peabody Essex Museum. Plus, a look at photographer Amani Willettâs book
A Parallel Road and a review of the film
Nomadland.
Tyeb Mehta, Untitled, 1973. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, 2001. E301099. Peabody Essex Museum
December 24, 2020 • Zehra Jumabhoy on Tantra at the British Museum
Kali striding over Shiva, Bengal, c. 1890, painted and gilded clay, 21 x 11 1/2 x 17 .
“IF YOU WENT TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM EXPECTING SEX, you’d be disappointed,” says Conor Macklin, director of London’s Grosvenor Gallery. He sounds a
little disappointed. After all, if one braved Covid-19 to see a British Museum extravaganza, titillatingly titled “Tantra: enlightenment to revolution,” then surely sex was part of the deal? Curator Imma Ramos begs to differ. Ramos the guiding light behind the show (which opened on September 24, 2020 and runs through January 24, 2021) hopes to uncouple Tantra from cheesy associations with carnal black magic.