Can the artist speak?
by Rosalyn D`Mello Jul 30, 2020
In a post COVID-19 reality, is it possible to foresee outreach initiatives by private galleries that privilege the artist’s subjectivity over jargon-heavy discourse?
D'Mello is an author, columnist, editor, researcher, art writer and critic. Since January 2016, she has been writing a weekly feminist column for mid-day, and, since mid-2016, a regular column for OPEN based on her visits to South Asian artists' studios, which she has been evolving into a forthcoming book for Oxford University Press, India, thanks to a research grant from the India Foundation for the Arts.
Articles by Rosalyn D`Mello
Of borders and bodies
by Rosalyn D`Mello Jul 13, 2020
A visit to the Timmelsjoch pass that connects Austria and Italy spurs a meditation on border-specific artworks and their intended viewers.
The secret lives of objects
by Rosalyn D`Mello Jun 27, 2020
Vacating an apartment amid lockdown presents a dilemma about what we can take with us and what we are forced to leave behind.
Do audiences matter to artists?
by Rosalyn D`Mello Jun 12, 2020
Within contemporary discourse, how do artists find their audiences? And what does it mean for artists to be ‘discovered’, and by whom?
Self-harm versus self-care, what does the art world enable?
by Rosalyn D`Mello May 20, 2020
Is the art market and community complicit in furthering our destructive obsession with tortured artistic genius? Explores Rosalyn D’Mello.
Seeing a work of art in the age of coronavirus
by Rosalyn D`Mello May 01, 2020
As more art collections are calibrated for virtual quarantine viewing than ever before, will our art-viewing muscle memory be irrevocably altered?
Can a 'new' arts ecosystem replace a non-existent 'old' one?
by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 09, 2020
A recent magazine cover went to great lengths to rehabilitate a star artist who was accused of sexual harassment, and herald a 'new' order.
Satish Gujral passes away at 94, with an “overpraised, yet underestimated” legacy
by Rosalyn D`Mello Mar 28, 2020
As we mourn the loss of an award-winning artist, architect and sculptor whose work audaciously straddled many disciplines, can our evaluation of his legacy do him justice?
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