Art Fervour, 03.06.2019
Paper City and Ghost Modernity: In Conversation with Ranjana Steinruecke

Contemporary Indian artist Manish Nai has a rather unique artistic style. He often works with found and discarded objects- recycling old clothes and newspapers, compressing books and various kinds of fabric- transforming them into sculptural …

Vogue India, 02.11.2019
Ahmedabad has a new museum, and it’s dedicated to a shade of blue

The museum space has long stood as an institution that preserves and parades those integral cultural, historical, scientific or artistic moments of significance. While it does chronicle, it also becomes a sort of social marker—and …

India Today, 08.16.2018
The art of sustainability: This Mumbai-based artist makes art out of waste

In faded billboards, he could see what he always wanted to draw. A blurred line, the immensity of negative space and the cramped and compressed city where the artist goes about clicking photos as part …

Architectural Digest, 07.24.2018
India’s First Sculpture Park Is Set in an 18th-Century Fortress

Stroll through the extensive grounds of the 18th-century Nahargarh Fort in Jaipur, India, and you may spot objects much more contemporary. At the heart of the fortress is the 1892 Madhavendra Palace, a former seasonal …

The Hindu , 03.16.2018
Documenting the age of Anthropocene

“Language imposes a strange and alien logic that tells us not to smell poetry, hear shadows or taste lights”, reads the text accompanying artist Mithu Sen’s video installation titled I have only one language; it is …

Verve magazine, 03.13.2018
Why you must catch Asymmetrical Objects at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum

As the 21st century unfolds, new discoveries in science and technology have begun to transform our lives. We live in a globally connected world, inundated daily with news of the potentially devastating consequences of human …

Ocula, 02.23.2018
Into the Blue: Dhaka Art Summit 2018 (excerpt)

Among the works on view were shawls embroidered by master weaver Zamthingla Ruivah, who embeds images of dissent in her fabrics to commemorate the violence inflicted on her native Nagaland in North Eastern India by …

Indulge Express, 02.21.2018
Turn of the Tide celebrates 20 years of Khoj support for artists across mediums, ideas

Outstanding Delhi based alternative arts incubation space, Khoj, celebrates twenty years. On 11 February 2018, Khoj will mark this anniversary with Turn of the Tide, an exhibition by twenty artists who have contributed their work …

e-flux, 02.11.2018
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Artists: Atul Bhalla, Jitish Kallat, Manish Nai, Mithu Sen, Prajakta Potnis, Ranbir Kaleka, Reena Kallat, Rohini Devasher, Sahej Rahal, Shilpa Gupta Curated by Honorary Director, Tasneem Zakaria Mehta and co-curated by Curator, Himanshu Kadam As the 21st century unfolds …

The Week, 02.09.2018
When reusing discarded household items becomes art

There are plenty of things in our house that we discard after daily use. Ever wondered how these products can be transformed into pieces of art? Manish Nai knows it. He passionately collects discarded materials …

Vogue India, 01.24.2018
10 of India’s top artists come together for a Mumbai exhibition

In January 2008, the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum opened to the public once again, entering a new phase of its life as it transitioned from what was originally the Government Central Museum of Natural …

News India Times, 03.28.2017
Manish Nai Exhibit Opens With Panel On Indian Contemporary Art

An exhibition of works by Mumbai-based artist Manish Nai premiered here at Kavi Gupta Gallery, June 5, with a panel discussion co-hosted by the Eye on India Festival. Nai’s conversation with independent curator and specialist …

News India Times, 03.28.2017
Seeing Beyond Space and Place Through Indian Contemporary Art

CHICAGO A panel discussion on “Space and Place: Transcending Local Meaning in Indian Contemporary Art” was presented by Eye on India Festival at downtown co-host Kavi Gupta Gallery, June 11. Moderated by Tanya Gill, the conversation …

India Today, 01.27.2016
Manish Nai – The man in the burlap cloak

There is something cyclical about Manish Nai. His studio in Dahisar, a karkhana where he works with wood and metal frames and columns of jute (next door to the clanging and hissing of otherworldly metals …

New City Art, 07.15.2015
Review: Manish Nai/Kavi Gupta Gallery

RECOMMENDED The work of Mumbai-based Manish Nai makes a viewer reconsider the limits of an artistic medium. He doesn’t use traditional media, such as heavy metals and wood, oil or acrylic. Instead, Nai uses everyday …

Bad At Sports, 06.15.2015
Episode 511: Manish Nai

Tanya Gill interviews Mumbai artist Manish Nai at Kavi Gupta’s Elizabeth street space as he prepares for his June 6th opening. This is Manish Nai’s debut solo exhibition in the United States. He is using …

Eye On India, 06.11.2015
Manish Nai Opening

Saturday, June 6 2015 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm Kavi Gupta Gallery 219 North Elizabeth St Chicago IL 60607 Free Admission (On Exhibit through August 1 2015) Kavi Gupta is proud to announce a solo exhibition featuring a new body of work …

Chicago Tribune, 05.21.2015
From the community: Eye on India Festival Comes to Lemont (Excerpt)

Eye on India and Teamwork Arts is proud to announce the 5th annual Eye on India Festival May 28 through June 28. From cinema, photography and music, to fashion, dance and yoga, Eye on India …

The Huffington Post, 01.08.2015
Kochi and Consciousness

I am writing from Varkala, a coastal town by the Arabian Sea, located in India’s south-western state of Kerala. Last weekend I was in Kochi, Kerala’s biggest city, where I had an opportunity to check …

Hindustan Times, 12.21.2014
A ground report from India’s biggest art show in Kochi

Ten feet above the ground, a man perched on a metal stand is trying to unfurl a large sheet of plastic over giant speakers. It is day one of the Kochi-Muziris biennale, and it has …

Live Mint.com - The Wall Street Journal, 08.16.2014
Manish Nai: The Proceduralist

Our first glimpse of Manish Nai involves the 35-year-old artist standing on top of a table pressing an iron box on a 6.6ftlong paper stuck on a wall. Two assistants stand alongside him and iron …

Blouin Artinfo, 05.25.2014
Artwork of the Week: Manish Nai’s Newspaper Wall at Art Basel in HK

When we met Manish Nai last month, his latest work — two paintings and six sculptures — made specially for the Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke booth at Art Basel in Hong Kong — was yet …

Live Mint.com - The Wall Street Journal, 04.27.2013
Manish Nai | Geometry in jute

Son of a jute trader and hailing from the traditional nai (barber) community, Manish Nai graduated from the LS Raheja School of Art, Mumbai, in 2000, choosing the medium of watercolours in his final year. …