Sonal Khullar on Bhupen Khakhar’s “Kali”

November 20, 2015

On June 22, Dr. Sonal Khullar visited with C-MAP and viewed Bhupen Khakhar’s painting Kali (1965). This painting, which MoMA purchased in 1967, is one of the artist’s early works. Less researched, it was made when he was still developing his vernacular language for what would later be considered Indian Pop art. In this video, Khullar discusses his material, his inspiration, and the possible meaning of the inscription—which reminds us of “Hey Ram,” Gandhi’s last words.

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Zbigniew Dłubak’s “Gestykulacje,” 1971

A series of twelve black and white photographs from MoMA’s Photography Study Collection—each depicting a woman’s hands performing various gestures against a neutral background—have recently been the focus of renewed scholarly interest at the Museum. The prints, grouped in three sets of four and attached to one another with transparent tape, compose three vertical columns…

Patryk Tomaszewski

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“Kazimierz Malewicz 1876–1935” by Władysław Strzemiński: Artist’s Book as Hommage

In 1936, the year after Kazimir Malevich’s death, Polish artist Władysław Strzemiński and his students in Łódź produced an album in honor of the Russian avant-garde master. Malevich’s legacy in Poland was well established by that time: his radical work in abstraction and Suprematism was embraced by artists and architects in the 1920s, many of…

Kim Conaty and Magdalena Moskalewicz

Central & Eastern Europe | One Work, Many Voices

Bitter Fame: Czech Glass Designer Věra Lišková in MoMA’s Collection

While going through MoMA’s Czech holdings during my Fulbright Research Fellowship at the Museum, I came across a surprising finding: the first Czech objects ever acquired by MoMA were a glass tumbler and two bowls designed by a young student, Věra Lišková (1924–1979) circa 1947, when Czechoslovakia was still part of the industrialized Western world.…

Iva Knobloch

Zbigniew Dłubak’s “Gestykulacje,” 1971

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