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FIELD DIARIES The City as a Museum, Kolkata—A Visual Journey DAG Museum’s annual festival ‘The City as a Museum’ attempts to explore the various archives, communities and artistic traditions that cohere around the life of a city. Put together, they tell different stories about the city across time and space, from the point of view of neighbourhoods, collections and institutions, but not just limited to those either. In order to explore this unique programme that seeks to explore heritage outside the walls of a traditional gallery or museum, read on! see all stories |
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ARCHIVE DEEP DIVE Scripting the Camera: Satyajit Ray’s cinema as ‘archive’ The DAG Archive has over 90,000 photographs taken by Nemai Ghosh, a bulk of which includes still photographs and behind the scenes images of films as well as candid and staged portraits of Satyajit Ray. In conjunction to these materials, DAG Archive has also acquired a set of two notebooks of Ray which contains the hand-written film scripts of Ghare Baire (The Home and The World, 1984) and Samapti (The Conclusion) which is one of the short films from the anthology, Teen Kanya (Three Women, 1961). Interestingly, both these films are adaptations from Rabindranath Tagore’s literary works. see all stories |
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ARCHIVE DEEP DIVE After the Storm: Chittaprosad’s late oeuvre Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (1913-1978) was a versatile artist and a lifelong adherent of the socialistic worldview. In 1943, he traveled across the famine-stricken villages of Bengal and produced realistic sketches of human suffering that were regularly published in the pages of the Communist Party journal 'People’s war'. These sketches were later compiled and published as a booklet under the title 'Hungry Bengal'. Fascinated by his artistic skills, the General Secretary of Communist Party of India, Puran Chand Joshi took Chittaprosad to the Party’s headquarters in Bombay (now Mumbai). see all stories |
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Material Experiments in Modernist Painting With the advent of modern art movements, there has been a constant attempt to break away from the norms of making art that prevailed for past many centuries. The traditional methods of painting, sculpting, carving or drawing gave way to more daring and uncanny material explorations. ‘The medium is the message’, as media theorist Marshall McLuhan would have put it. And that led to legendary innovations in medium and savoir-faire or artifices devised by the artists that produced and still produce marvellous art. see all stories |
Collection StoriesFIELD DIARIES The City as a Museum, Kolkata—A Visual Journey DAG Museum’s annual festival ‘The City as a Museum’ attempts to explore the various archives, communities and artistic traditions that cohere around the life of a city. Put together, they tell different stories about the city across time and space, from the point of view of neighbourhoods, collections and institutions, but not just limited to those either. In order to explore this unique programme that seeks to explore heritage outside the walls of a traditional gallery or museum, read on! see all stories |
Collection StoriesARCHIVE DEEP DIVE Scripting the Camera: Satyajit Ray’s cinema as ‘archive’ The DAG Archive has over 90,000 photographs taken by Nemai Ghosh, a bulk of which includes still photographs and behind the scenes images of films as well as candid and staged portraits of Satyajit Ray. In conjunction to these materials, DAG Archive has also acquired a set of two notebooks of Ray which contains the hand-written film scripts of Ghare Baire (The Home and The World, 1984) and Samapti (The Conclusion) which is one of the short films from the anthology, Teen Kanya (Three Women, 1961). Interestingly, both these films are adaptations from Rabindranath Tagore’s literary works. see all stories |
Collection StoriesARCHIVE DEEP DIVE After the Storm: Chittaprosad’s late oeuvre Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (1913-1978) was a versatile artist and a lifelong adherent of the socialistic worldview. In 1943, he traveled across the famine-stricken villages of Bengal and produced realistic sketches of human suffering that were regularly published in the pages of the Communist Party journal 'People’s war'. These sketches were later compiled and published as a booklet under the title 'Hungry Bengal'. Fascinated by his artistic skills, the General Secretary of Communist Party of India, Puran Chand Joshi took Chittaprosad to the Party’s headquarters in Bombay (now Mumbai). see all stories |
Collection StoriesMaterial Experiments in Modernist Painting With the advent of modern art movements, there has been a constant attempt to break away from the norms of making art that prevailed for past many centuries. The traditional methods of painting, sculpting, carving or drawing gave way to more daring and uncanny material explorations. ‘The medium is the message’, as media theorist Marshall McLuhan would have put it. And that led to legendary innovations in medium and savoir-faire or artifices devised by the artists that produced and still produce marvellous art. see all stories |
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Story of Bengal Art
Part One: Legacy of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Museum Shorts
The City as a Museum—2023 Kolkata Edition
Story of Bengal Art
Part Two: Early 20th Century
Museum Montage
The Winsome Women in Waiting
Museum Shorts
The City as a Museum—2022 Kolkata Edition