[News] Nalini Malani

“A spontaneous overflow of an intensely powerful feeling captured on canvas is good painting to me,” Nalini Malani is quoted saying in the March 1966 issue of the now-defunct Indian women’s magazine Eve’s Weekly. Displayed in a vitrine close to the entrance to “The Fragility of Time,” a focused and revealing exhibition of Malani’s work from the mid-1960s through the early ’80s, this archival tidbit underscored the then-twenty-year-old artist’s self-assured approach to a time-tested practice.

December issue, 2024