The Pickled Fish Museum
Articles
Essays, field notes, and object stories from the museum shelf.
Readings on artists, artworks, archives, collecting, rituals of looking, and the cultural memory that gathers around an object after it leaves the studio.
Nationalism, Violence, and the Bengal School
A broadsheet essay on the Bengal School, national images, and the hardening of cultural memory into political force.
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Raja Ravi Varma and the Birth of Calendar Art
Where oil paint met mythology, and the sacred image became reproducible, portable, desirable, and dangerously familiar.
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