In Memoriam: Kavita Singh (1964-2023)

Kavita Singh was a distinguished and beloved art historian, curator, and pedagogue. She passed away in New Delhi on July 30, 2023, following a brave battle with cancer. Singh had served as Professor and Dean of the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and was elected to the Board of the J. Paul Getty Trust in 2020. She was a recipient of the Infosys Prize for Humanities, which recognized, “her extraordinarily illuminating study of Mughal, Rajput and Deccan art as well as her insightful writing on the historical function and role of museums and their significance in the increasingly fraught and conflicted social world in which visual culture exists today.” In this 5 Questions interview, conducted when she visited The Museum of Modern Art as a C-MAP Asia speaker in 2016, Singh shared her critical insights into questions of canonicity, location, representation, and translation in the era of globalization.

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