Art with Az.
Not to show art, but to make it felt.
Art with Az began with a simple discomfort: the gap between Indian art and Indian people. The stories were extraordinary; almost nobody was hearing them. Fifty conversations later, with the modernists who painted the nation, the gallerists who built its market, and the collectors who guard its memory, the project remains the same: not to show art, but to make it felt.
Every episode links to the conversation itself.
The stories were extraordinary; almost nobody was hearing them.
The people on the other side of the table.
New to Indian art? Five books, each worth a slow week.
AZThe single best one-volume survey: five millennia in a coat pocket.
Close, loving readings of a hundred paintings; the book that teaches you how to look at a miniature.
A brisk, well-illustrated walk from the Indus Valley to the modern era.
Husain, Souza, Raza and their circle: how a newly independent nation found its painters.
The essays that gave Indian modernism its critical vocabulary. Denser, and worth it.