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Vishwas KulkarniMarta JakimowiczPeter NagyINTERVIEWMeera MenezesREPORTSLatika GuptaKarin Miller-LewisMeera MenezesESSAYSPECIAL REPORTINTERNATIONAL REPORTSDeeksha NathGary CarsleyJulien NénaultINTERNATIONAL REVIEWSGary CarsleyDeeksha NathREVIEWSMeera MenezesGitanjali DangZehra JumabhoyTasneem MehtaLatika GuptaPathik SrijanGirish ShahaneGayatri SinhaElla DattaSPECIAL REPORTSElla DattaVijay RanaSHOWCASECONTRIBUTORS
Gitanjali Dang is the art critic at Hindustan Times, Mumbai. She has a Masters in English Literature (Mumbai University) and is currently pursuing a Diploma in Indian Aesthetics (Mumbai University). Her areas of interest include the Internet and the World Wide Web and how the two have impacted contemporary Indian art and artworks.
Beth Citron is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department at the University of Penn-sylvania, USA. Her doctoral thesis focuses on contemporary art from Bombay from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. She has previously conducted research at Ajanta and on contemporary Tibetan art. She has worked in the Asian Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; at the Asia Society and Museum, New York; and is currently working with the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, on an exhibition of artworks inspired by Bombay city.
Beverly Yong has a Bachelors degree in English Literature and Art History from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Masters in Asian Archaeology from SOAS, London. Yong has worked as a curator for institutional and private art exhibitions in South East Asia. She was an art columnist for the Business Times and the New Sunday Times in Malaysia for three years, and has contributed catalogue essays on Malaysian art for international exhibitions such as ARS01 and the 3rd Fukuoka Triennale. Currently, she is the Managing Director of Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, a gallery specialising in contemporary Southeast Asian art.
Gangar writes regularly for the bilingual contemporary art quarterly, ART iT, published from Tokyo.
Julien Nenault is a French script-writer and art critic working out of Paris, New York, and New Delhi. He has contributed to Nouvel Obs, Photo, and various art magazines as well as to a few coffee-table books. Nenault has worked for a Paris-based gallery dealing with New York Free Figuration artists. He has produced three short films on evolving urban India and is currently working on a collection of graphic novels with Indian graphic artists. In addition, he is preparing multi-media installations with Adivasi artists.
Vishwas Kulkarni is a writer, experimental filmmaker, and new media artist. Since graduating from Bard College, New York, in Film and Electronic Arts, Kulkarni has worked with visual and print media in India and abroad. In 2001, he co-founded along with Beatrice Gibson and Vishal Rawlley, one of South Asia's first New Media Art e-zines, Nungu. He has made many experimental shorts and his queer short film, Main Shaayar Badnaam (A Defamed Poet), has been screened at experimental film festivals across the world, including, The 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies in Bangkok (2005), where he was invited as a panellist to represent India. Kulkarni was the former art critic of Mid-Day and is now the Assistant Editor of Mumbai Mirror. He is currently working on his novel.