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Fine Arts Exhibition
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Reimagining the Muraqqa

At Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)

Richmond Town, Bengaluru

📖Waswo's accompanying essay on collecting is worth a read
🔍"a complex visual record of a changing India" (MAP)
🎨Works connect through proximity and annotation, not chronology

One man's bargain-hunting became a museum-worthy archive. Waswo X. Waswo spent years collecting inexpensive "heritage paintings" in Rajasthan; now 50 of them hang together as a muraqqa, revealing India's shifting visual culture through royal portraits, tantric imagery, and Nathdwara works.

Eclectic collection
Indian miniature paintings
Collector's eye
Non-linear storytelling

Saturday, November 14

Matches these interests

  • Eclectic collection
  • Indian miniature paintings
  • Collector's eye
  • Non-linear storytelling
  • Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)
  • Richmond Town
  • Bengaluru

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