Global Modernism and the Indian Progressives

"Global Modernism and the Indian Progressives" investigates the "radical" modernist artwork produced in India between the 1940's and the 1980's.  Presented for the first time in the United States, these 80 paintings are some of the crucial works of the Progressive Artsist group -- a collective formed within months of India winning its freedom from colonial rule.  This decisive era witnessed the demise of the British Empire and the rise of independent India, a nation that has emerged as a powerful player on the global scene in the 21st century.

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FASHIONING KIMONO is AN EXHIBIT WORTH A ROAD TRIP
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Philadelphia, PA --The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the center stage of culture in the city, has a lively program of special exhibitions this spring. A major traveling Frida Kahlo show, which landed in Philadelphia in late February after a fall run at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, runs through May 18. The exhibition, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth, includes portraits, self-portraits, and still lifes by the idiosyncratic Mexican painter, marginalized during her own lifetime but canonized in recent decades. Japanese fashion is the subject of a second spring exhibition at the museum. In "Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan," museum curators aim to show the influence of Western designs on the Ur-Japanese style during the early 20th century, as the nation was increasingly influenced by Western cultural models. The show includes formal, semi-formal, and casual kimonos meant to be worn not just by women, but also by men and children. -- The New York Sun, March 19, 2008

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