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The Associate Residency with Takehito Kogenezawa, Michael Peter Cain and Sushanta Mondal has started as the weather in Delhi is changing for the better. The artists are settling down and doing the usual pilgrimage to Old Delhi and Kotla.Meanwhile Takehito Kogenezawa’s show open at the National gallery of Modern Art on Friday the 12th of October.

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The flurry of activities at KHOJ studios has begun with visits from Steven Madoff (critic in painting/printmaking at Yale University, USA) and Tomoko Muroiwa (Assistant Curator Mori Art Museum, Japan).
Steven Henry Madoff in 1997 published Pop Art: A Critical History with University of California Press. He is at work on a new book on interdisciplinary art.

Protest meeting on the lawns of Rabindra Bhavan, Mandi House, New Delhi on Monday, 14th May, at 6 pm to mark the arts community's anguish at repeated violations of cultural freedoms, the most recent being the violent assault on the young Baroda artist Chandramohan. Please join us and extend your solidarity.

A sparsely attended Open Studio that showcased some highly meditative compositions that managed to hold themselves together in spite of every rule in the book of equipment abuse being broken. All the pieces involving a projector had live real time feeds getting beamed evoking a vision that was immediately ordinary, but with a zoomed in camera on auto-focus - easily overlooked elements got picked up to generate an eeri

Transformed by micro-controllers, projections, sensors and lasers,
KHOJ studio spills the inside outdoors, and situates the outdoors
inside. These video and audio works aspire to confound our standard
expectations of space and density, presence and absence, the real and
the represented. Featuring subtle effects of juxtaposition, selective

This is when the “demolition drive” has hit home. Sai Sweets, the favorite eatery that provides sustenance to the staff and artists at Khoj has had to shut down. All the artists who have ever worked/been at Khoj are familiar with the sumptuous, yet affordable home/office delivered food of Sai Sweets. Over the years and innumerable meals we developed great affinity with this neighborhood food joint.

the summer heat was literally frying the eggs above our room and the sky was bright and showing its full anger .. before i go ahead i would like to remind you that this is the way i start my writing be it serious or humourous, i just have to start with the climate,there s no reason for this, and i would not want to defend it either.

Karen Thornton & Surajit Sarkar along with visiting new media artist Tamiko Thiel(Germany)presented their prev

INSIDE/OUTSIDE: an interactive digital art project by artists K D Thornton (Canada) and Surajit Sarkar (Delhi) .... Central to this artwork is the idea of bringing the inside to the outside / or the outside in using fragments of digitally captured life, the artwork INSIDE/OUTSIDE uses video images, explores found and combines them in ways that brings unexpected visions into gallery art.

Grant Kester visited the Khoj studios on the 31st of March. It was a 4 hour discussion that was both extremely inspiring and invigorating.Grant is the Associate Professor of Art History and Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Art and Media History at the University of California , San Diego.