Spring Visiting Artists
SAI will welcome two artists to Harvard during the spring semester.
Category : Arts Program
A truly immersive experience
Art history professor Eugene Wang, studies Buddhist art but had never been to India until Jinah Kim, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, organized an excursion for students in January to the Ajanta and Ellora Caves.
Founding members form South Asian Arts Council
Representing Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, the council members will provide support and advisement for the Arts at SAI program.
SAI hosts artist Basir Mahmood
This week, SAI welcomed Basir Mahmood, an artist based in Lahore, Pakistan, to Harvard as the second Visiting Artist, as part of SAI’s Arts Program.
cityinflux: SAI launches Visiting Artist program
SAI’s inaugural Visiting Artist, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, spent this week at Harvard meeting students and faculty and visiting courses.
Q+A with Ranjit Kandalgaonkar: Visualizing the city
Mumbai-based artist Ranjit Kandalgaonkar draws upon contemporary visual arts media, archival documentation and historical artifacts to document urban flows. He will spend next week at Harvard as the inaugural Visiting Artist in SAI’s Arts Program.
Call for applications: Program for Emerging Artists from South Asia
SAI welcomes applications from emerging artists in South Asia to come to Harvard University to participate in discourse with students and faculty on critical issues.
Research spotlight: Art and education in the South Asian context
This is the fourth and last article in a series highlighting SAI’s ongoing research projects that were featured at SAI’s Annual Symposium ‘South Asia: Local Solutions with Global Impact‘ in April. By Abhishek Raman, MDiv Candidate, Harvard Divinity School; SAI Student...
Kashmir’s women in wait
“More than the political aspect, it is understanding how women cope with the phenomenon of disappearances that appealed to me as a filmmaker,” says director Nilosree Biswas in an interview with SAI on the unique culture of Kashmir.
Contemporary South Asia Student Blog: Arts and Humanities
This is the fifth blog post in a weekly series from a student enrolled in the course ‘Contemporary South Asia: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems’ co-taught by SAI Director Tarun Khanna. The course features several modules on issues...
Capturing South Asia: Interview with Pablo Bartholomew
Indian photographer Pablo Bartholomew has witnessed many of South Asia’s tragedies and triumphs – perhaps most famously the gas tragedy in Bhopal. During his visit to Harvard, SAI sat down with Bartholomew to discuss his photo exhibit, the aftermath of the Bhopal tragedy, how photojournalism is changing, and how his South Asian heritage has influenced his work.
Exploring the photography of India: Reactions to Pablo Bartholomew’s exhibit
“Bartholomew’s calm and measured narration of his time spent in the city and the ethics of photojournalism more generally, at once contextualized this otherwise unimaginable tragedy and helped us reflect on its legacies.” Indian photographer Pablo...