https://www.rosalyndmello.com/essayist daily 0.75 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/79e79959-63ec-425c-a4da-6ba99f9e791c/1.+Bottego.jpg Essayist The monument to Italian colonialist Vittorio Bottego, built by Ettore Ximenes, was inaugurated in 1907 (Image Courtesy: Rosalyn D’Mello). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/5844b1f2-f0af-4142-b27b-2ed5d1f41be4/2.+Sherni.png Essayist Still, Sherni, DFO Vidya Vincent is waiting on a scaffolding in a sugarcane field for a tranquilising operation where the tigress is supposedly hiding or resting (Image Courtesy: Rakesh Haridas/Amit Masurkar). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/995c049b-dbcf-4e2b-bcdd-b8048fb5730c/3.+Maternal+Exhaustion.jpg Essayist Still, I Need to Believe That You Will See Me, 2021, Video-performance, Guta Galli (Image Courtesy: Guta Galli/Woman Made Gallery). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1617808012565-JGL46NK5VG2K1U7WDN2J/Unbenannt.jpg Essayist Maridl making Sauerkraut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1617799524917-YA54G45UAFUPRD0F829Y/1983_Rejection_2.jpg Essayist My copy of Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1615284402926-9XO419HX4YKRNORYIY2C/Rangoli_1.jpg Essayist Rangoli sketches by Jyoti Bhatt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613392128188-P9I4VTGKAML4J17SCIVB/Lou_Kitchen.jpg Essayist Liza Lou’s Kitchen is an ode to the historical labours performed by housewives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613393936026-Q88APFL09QD55KQF4RI9/1804_Motherhood_2.jpg Essayist When motherhood remains taboo in a non-inclusive art world, can artists dare to embrace their maternal bodies? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610885445790-3U3PVERMJFTWTWXB3BMD/Penelope.jpg Essayist Through the wild embrace of learning as method, learning as end in itself, I had begun to gradually gain access into the in-between-ness of what I decided to call Penelope Time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613392833582-K5II38M0NDGI50SRE470/Companyart-1.jpg Essayist Sarus Crane by Shaikh Zain Ud-Din, c 1780 (Image Courtesy: The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610888612886-ENMM46E7EFVM0H7HAYAZ/Tale-Of-two-monuments-feature-1024x576.jpg Essayist When I visited the Vittoriale degli Italiani, I could not shake off its fascist history. But a spontaneous visit to Nek Chand’s Rock Garden in Chandigarh had a vastly different effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610890154912-DD4XQ98JDG3O78WXCBS6/Grapesofglory3.jpg Essayist In South Tyrol wines are about taste, smell, community and the evocation of memories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1611002978793-FOWF0X3BDL8DRU79GZM4/IMG_20180414_154603.jpg Essayist Reflections from a brown-eyed museum visitor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613408497340-Z5OU81MPD0YNYIR1Y6YZ/Karmicrossing1a.jpg Essayist Jain argues that there was no other Pardhan artist before Jangarh who had even remotely cultivated a pictorial style for him to draw from. https://www.rosalyndmello.com/editor daily 0.75 2023-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1611509882780-445SLAJELGE3ZQPYUWAO/3EDB600-E441-4235-ABF8-C24A0D6B9.jpg Editor 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1611509590162-657XGJ367HZYZX2P3KH2/Jitish+Kallat.png Editor 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1611510277820-LNJXSX2PO3799IQBKE7W/9783791384757.jpg Editor 2018 https://www.rosalyndmello.com/biography daily 0.75 2024-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613235204051-W3ORHMD8HCM0OSEY22X4/2019+-+Finding+Inspiration+%28Rosalyn+D%27Mello%29+-+colour+adjusted+low.jpg Biography © 2019 Waswo X. 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© 2023 Niki Charitable Art Foundation, Adagp, Paris (Image Courtesy: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/9fd2e473-8fda-41dd-9af6-9b712e85d703/10.+Henry+Martin+and+Ray+Johnson.jpg Art Critic Henry Martin had a long-term friendship with Ray Johnson, originator of the Mail Art Movement (Image Courtesy: STIR). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/22197fd7-61d3-4ce8-8d8a-1c1e803a9bd3/11.+Asli+TINA%2C+2022+Detail.jpg Art Critic TINA (Detail), 2022, Drawings on double-sided accordion book made of leather, paper and bursera fagaroides (Image Courtesy: Gabriele Abbruzzese/Barriera). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/92f30200-ae8a-4a3a-91c4-858d344dc3b4/12.+Paulo+Nazareth+L%E2%80%99Arbre+D%E2%80%99Oublier+1.png Art Critic L’Arbre D’Oublier (Árvore do Esquecimento), 2013, Still from video performance (Image Courtesy: Paulo Nazareth/Mendes Wood DM). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/c058e2fa-0075-4881-a944-9bc651852222/13.+Towards+an+Indian+Gay+Image++Saleem+Kidwai+and+Me%2C+Qutb+Minar.png Art Critic Towards an Indian Gay Image – Saleem Kidwai and Me, Qutub Minar (Image Courtesy: Sunil Gupta/Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/f878fdb7-e718-4d6e-ab03-faf3f60ecc7f/14.+Venice_Cecilia+Vicuna_Detail.jpg Art Critic Detail, Bendígame Mamita, 1977, Oil on canvas, Cecilia Vicuña (Image Courtesy: Rosalyn D’Mello). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/7af6368c-46f6-4a22-8cb5-3680f27689db/15.+Hannes_Lead.jpeg Art Critic Installation view, VOR ORT, at Kunstplatz Graben, a temporary sculpture commissioned by KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien (Image Courtesy: Iris Ranzinger/Kunst im öffentlichen Raum GmbH). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/a03044e6-e475-44c9-96e5-76a266577363/Across+Oceans_NicoleGodreauSoria.jpg Art Critic Across Oceans is a homage to the known and unknown women who passed down the ritual of cooking plantain down to the artist (Image Courtesy: Nicole Godreau Soria). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/c834f891-0c40-4b61-97df-faceae54d0fd/V%C3%B6lker_2.jpg Art Critic Installation view, Museum der Völker, Schwaz (Image Courtesy: Rosalyn D’Mello). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1fd67ff9-f9f0-4592-8b71-541dce661e17/sh21_09_09_Uriel_Hauptplatz_by_MathiasVoelzke_035.jpg Art Critic Uriel Barthélémi mit Sophie Bernado und Salomon Baneck-Asaro, Navigating the Ruins of the Old World, Performance (Image Courtesy: Mathias Völzke/ Steirischer Herbst). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/d650160e-67bf-46db-ade9-653d059e4d0b/Banyan+Tree+Botanical+Garden+Kolkata.jpeg Art Critic The 1250-year-old Great Indian Banyan Tree at the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden in Shibpur, West Bengal (Image Courtesy: Rosalyn D’Mello). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/2f2cd73b-146b-4b13-b89c-0edd16e04294/Chiara+Vigo_Studio_Work+Table.jpg Art Critic Chiara Vigo is the only living artist who knows the historical and ancient art of making sea silk (Image Courtesy: Rosalyn D’Mello). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/3055cb45-014b-4b08-9449-29dd9b1ca1bf/Binta_Diaw.jpg Art Critic Binta Diaw, Uati’s Wisdom, Hair Extension, variable dimensions at Prima Torre, Torre Guaita, San Marino (Image Courtesy: Rosalyn D’Mello). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/41341dba-9074-4ebe-b492-c706e9d10182/210316_OCEAN+SPACE_TALOI+HAVINI+%C2%A9+gerdastudio+04.JPG Art Critic Taloi Havini, Answer to the Call, exhibition view, Ocean Space, Venice, Commissioned by TBA21-Academy and co-produced with Schmidt Ocean Institute, co-founded by Wendy Schmidt (Image Courtesy: gerdastudio). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/6e2aa5ad-bdb3-4adb-9bfd-02229d7c0502/MZO_AGAPAKIS+-+DAISY+GINSBERG+-+TOLAAS+_1547.JPG Art Critic Christina Agapakis, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Sissel Tolaas, Resurrecting the Sublime (Image Courtesy: Marco Zorzanello, La Biennale di Venezia). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/f4367f6b-042c-4e63-a478-ffea89e23411/Sangita+Maity%2C+Forest+without+the+Sky+II%2C+Woodcut+print%2C+23+x+14+in%2C+Ed+1+of+4%2C+2020.jpg Art Critic Sangita Maity, Forest without the Sky II, Woodcut print, 23 x 14 in, edition 1 of 4, 2020 (Image Courtesy: Shrine Empire Gallery and the artist). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1617800211839-IJUXS3YHO2BQCPGVJY1D/Looming2.jpg Art Critic Mauna Kea by Monika Correa (Image Courtesy: Jhaveri Contemporary). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613407690808-5P06J5GA1PS7OD2IYJLV/Kantha_.jpg Art Critic Meera Mukherjee orchestrated a way for Kantha embroiders to sustain a livelihood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613407445262-FPUEI2SVCHADIEAVKH95/1847_Apocalypse_2.jpg Art Critic A detail from Panel 1, Nilima Sheikh, ‘Beyond Loss’, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613405383635-Z617ZY4IBCTZK3BH2MPB/Rosalyn_Dmello_Library_Catalogue.jpg Art Critic Cataloguing art books at a private library got me thinking about the post-Pandemic role of art criticism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610891586541-RHVX9BNL37WLVFS1YOLJ/1671_ShadowLibraries_1.jpg Art Critic Vidha Saumya, Reading Lists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610892200248-5U1O41X8KO65JZ3J8W17/Sartorial1.jpg Art Critic An undated photo of Bhanu Athaiya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610891945034-XX8Z9YYMKBMPO9U1PKFJ/REpair.jpg Art Critic Alessandra Spranzi, Cose che accadono #35 | P420, Bologna, C. Favero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610894555654-H3IHKZ169EH5DE9IX7YG/Roots-and-twigs1a.jpg Art Critic Photo by Rohit Chawla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610896215470-MC4PAI6R1I0AX0UHRAZ8/Spacetraveller1.jpg Art Critic Jitish Kallat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610894801822-7RB8SP5R39OZJH3JN5EE/GaneshHaloi1.jpg Art Critic Photo by Rohit Chawla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610897827951-KS1EVQUNOZHKER2VXX5U/2021-01-17.jpg Art Critic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610924345014-G5GPWB2ZXH4R6441J5YV/2021-01-17%2B%25281%2529.jpg Art Critic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610895009645-4QF9DK5OL4OM2VTTGGZH/Formandfeelings.jpg Art Critic Photo by Rohit Chawla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610895225817-R3WSUMVNYLP4KTHJU6VK/Thelastlaugh1.jpg Art Critic They Died Laughing by Bani Abidi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610921678803-EUE27S4W2RO7V6OZDLNS/2021-01-17%2B%25284%2529.jpg Art Critic From Mithu Sen's (Un)Mansplaining, Venice, 2019 (Image Courtesy: Mithu Sen) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610897391212-CXDR5YXE4XLO9ST68M4L/Le%CC%81uli-Eshraghi-portrait-by-David-Martin-Harris-2015.jpg Art Critic Léuli Māzyār Lunaʻi Eshrāghi (Image Courtesy: David Martin Harris) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610899010290-V09HM9YMVI2LECBBFKHM/2021-01-17+%282%29.jpg Art Critic Adam Szymczyk. © 2014 Tadeusz Rolke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610899442612-5KV5B0EI2E7CWQTZLGPC/2021-01-17+%283%29.jpg Art Critic An excerpt from Chandan Gomes’ People You May Know https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1610900062242-7OK4073D3CDIMPXBCF83/AC_1.jpg Art Critic Hebdomeros, in colloboration with Ersöz Ata, mixed technique, 2018. Exhibition view at Lanserhaus, Eppan, Italy https://www.rosalyndmello.com/researcher daily 0.75 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/5fb26ee0-9faa-4e36-a616-65949454e74c/Helmut+Bologna.jpg Researcher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ff70917e6d81d46bddafc09/1613241980083-N8FXALGZ20TBQHVKHD05/IMG_5495.JPG Researcher