Art or Children?
by Rosalyn D`Mello Jan 12, 2021
When motherhood remains taboo in a non-inclusive art world, can artists dare to embrace their maternal bodies?
Rosalyn 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.
We need to talk about Art Critics
by Rosalyn D`Mello Dec 26, 2020
While the pandemic has put the art world under financial strain, art criticism remains among an under-discussed realm in terms of the new conditions under which it must be performed.
STIR interviews Theaster Gates discussing his immersive practice and the sacred
by Rosalyn D`Mello Dec 09, 2020
Theaster Gates’ ongoing solo, Black Vessel, at gallery Gagosian in New York harnesses Black spirituality practices and traditions to sacralise Black archives.
Shadow Libraries
by Rosalyn D`Mello Nov 27, 2020
Contemporary artists remind us that libraries are storehouses of ‘civilisational’ knowledge premised on exclusion and systemic othering.
Can the curator repair?
by Rosalyn D`Mello Nov 10, 2020
In showcasing the aesthetics of mending, it is contentious for art to be contextualised as insulated from the broken-ness of reality.
The importance of being Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller
by Rosalyn D`Mello Oct 24, 2020
The Viennese photographer boldly went where few photographers dared to go, exploring the inner reaches of female consciousness.
The Freudian Glitch
by Rosalyn D`Mello Oct 07, 2020
Steirischer Herbst’s 2020 edition, Paranoia TV, adopts the screen as a medium of dissemination in a digital, pandemic world, but to what end?
Beyond bread, wine, cars, security and peace
by Rosalyn D`Mello Sep 18, 2020
The debut exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien by its new directors, the Croatian collective, What, How & for Whom (WHW), reveals the inherently classist nature of our desires for peace.
Street-haunting art
by Rosalyn D`Mello Sep 08, 2020
What it means to stumble upon one of artist Gunter Demnig’s ‘Stolperstein’, a 10x10cm memorial to a murdered victim of Nazi oppression.
The secret Library of Babel
by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 24, 2020
Contemporary artists are boldly aligning their practices within Femmage to make visible lost, stolen, and invisibilised histories of female labour.
The art of making art seen through the lens of serving and consuming food
by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 10, 2020
What happens when the production or consumption of food lies in the centerpiece of an artwork or performance? Can an artistic focus on feeding lead to a more inclusive society?
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?
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?
The art of making art seen through the lens of serving and consuming food
by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 10, 2020
What happens when the production or consumption of food lies in the centerpiece of an artwork or performance? Can an artistic focus on feeding lead to a more inclusive society?
