Kavita Singh, Author at post https://post.moma.org notes on art in a global context Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:15:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://post.moma.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Kavita Singh, Author at post https://post.moma.org 32 32 In Memoriam: Kavita Singh (1964-2023) https://post.moma.org/5-questions-with-kavita-singh/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:31:39 +0000 https://post.moma.org/?p=2564 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. 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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]]> 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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]]> Challenging the Global: C-MAP Experts Respond https://post.moma.org/challenging-the-global-c-map-experts-respond/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:41:57 +0000 https://post.moma.org/?p=2575 During 2016 and 2017, more than 80 scholars, artists, and curators visited MoMA as C-MAP guests. n conjunction with the 5 Questions interview series, we asked them a sixth question: How can MoMA better approach international artistic production and exchange?

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]]> During 2016 and 2017, more than 80 scholars, artists, and curators visited MoMA as guests for the platform Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP). In conjunction with the 5 Questions interview series, we asked them a sixth question: How can MoMA better approach international artistic production and exchange? Their responses, based on experience in the field and in-depth research, display a wealth of perspectives on this complex question.

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