Not Just a Relic: Asking Who Gets to Be Contemporary at KNMA

For much of its institutional life, folk art has occupied an uneasy position. Celebrated as a repository of heritage, it has often been denied the status of contemporary practice. Pata Dekhabo? (Shall I Show You a Pata?) at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, in Delhi, challenges that relegation, presenting Pattachitra—one of the oldest art […]