#IndiaAtTheMet: Rock stars bringing on more Asia, more India to New York's Met museum
Nikhila Natrajan • 9 years agoFor a 146 year old giant, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has an awfully big number of people walking through its doors looking into their smartphones - 9 out of 10 people come in with a mobile device.
#IndiaAtTheMet: Asian treasures inside one of the world's great museums
Nikhila Natrajan • 9 years agoFor the first time ever, an Indian artist is firmly in the spotlight of a top museum's inaugural exhibition - Nasreen Mohamedi retrospective at the Met Breuer.
When a line bends: Who is Nasreen Mohamedi, the Indian artist making waves in New York?
Fp Staff • 9 years agoMohamedi is now being given her due. Her work has travelled from the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, where she received a rapturous ovation, to Tate Liverpool and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid and now to New York’s audacious temple to contemporary art - #MetBreuer. Mohamedi is now recognized as a key figure of South Asian modernism.
#IndiaAtTheMet: More than 150 Nasreen Mohamedi works set to open #MetBreuer spring season
Fp Archives • 9 years agoThe Metropolitan Museum of Art's Director and CEO Thomas Campbell said Mohamedi's work calls on "us to expand our understanding of graphic minimalism in a transnational context. It is a project that speaks to our interest in introducing a broad range of audiences to the innovative work created by artists across borders.
#IndiaAtTheMet: Reliance Foundation to toast artist Nasreen Mohamedi in New York
Fp Archives • 9 years agoAn exhibition of the works of the late Mumbai-based artist Nasreen Mohamedi is being launched at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or simply The Met, here on Tuesday, supported by Nita Ambani-led Reliance Foundation.
Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi to headline New York museum circuit's new darling - the aspirational Met Breuer
Fp Staff • 9 years agoIndian art is the toast of a potentially blockbuster launch of New York’s Met Breuer museum in the first week of March even as prime minister Narendra Modi speaking in Mumbai made a strong push for Indian art and its place in the world’s public square.