Postdoctoral Fellow of Global Contemporary Art at The New School University, an American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellow
Rashmi Meenakshi Viswanathan is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Global Contemporary Art at The New School University, an American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellow (2019), and independent curator who writes on colonial-era art and its historiographies, and more recent art in and related to the Contemporary.
Mulk Raj Anand is perhaps best remembered as a cultural critic, writer, philosopher, and patron of the arts. But Rashmi Viswanathan turns her attention to his lesser known initiative to establish India’s First Triennale of Contemporary World Art in 1968. This essay explores Anand’s optimistic use of the triennale to shift international cultural relations and…
