SKYE ARUNDHATI THOMAS

Recent Writings

WEATHER PERMITTING – Artforum
The Floods in Pakistan| London Review Bookshop
Remember the Details: Skye Arundhati Thomas & Preti Taneja | London Review Bookshop
“The double bind”: on Documenta 15 – Criticism – e-flux
In the Orchard- London Review of Books
Remember the Details – Journal #124- eflux
The Heat Wave in Northern India
Divine Exercises
How Vqueeram and Vishal Jugdeo Challenge Political Faultlines | Frieze
Disrobed
Essay: Sudden, Fleeting Things – Arsenal
Danish Siddiqui (1983–2021)- Artforum
Totally Concocted
Out of Oxygen
On Republic Day
Caste Atrocities · LRB 21 December 2020
What is the risk they pose? · LRB 1 October 2020
https://www.akademimag.com/prison-between-mountains
Kashmir, One Year On
Michaela Coel Makes Us Feel Less Alone | Frieze
After Amphan · LRB 23 June 2020
Glamour and Resistance in Shola von Reinhold’s ‘Lote’ | Frieze
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Tentacular-Things-Skye-Arundhati-Thomas.pdf
Letter from India – Artforum
‘Modi asked us to light it up’
Hostile Environment: Battling the UK’s Immigration Barriers as an Art Worker | Frieze
Upholding the Constitution
‘This Earth Will Shiver’: How Artists Are Helping India’s Protesters Reclaim their Country’s Voice | Frieze
https://solmagazine.net/en/pages/masquerade
Venice, the Apocalypse and an Opera
A window of vulnerability by Skye Arundhati Thomas – VISP
https://frieze.com/article/why-art-world-needs-wake-kashmir-crisis
Gandhi Is the Central Protagonist at the Indian National Pavilion in Venice
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AM425_SAT.pdf
As India’s #MeToo Moment Hits the Art World, Who is Allowed to Speak Out? | Frieze
The Jailing of Bangladeshi Photographer Shahidul Alam Is a Travesty for Free Speech | Frieze
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Art-Review-Asia-Spring18-KHOJ_SAT.pdf
Dear Laxmi | The Photographers Gallery
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Take-on-Architecture_SAT.pdf
Indian Art in Paris | Frieze
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Selvedge_July2017.pdf
A Garland of Rivers: On the Trial-Performance “Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness” – Frontpage – e-flux conversations
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AM406_SAT.pdf
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/am404_SAT.pdf
http://honeyimhome.rca.ac.uk/pdfs/06_Skye.pdf
http://www.roh.org.uk/articles/mahagonny-digital-programme-containers-contained
Jake Grewal and Lionel Wendt Share a Fleeting Feeling | Frieze
Sosa Joseph – Artforum
How Vqueeram and Vishal Jugdeo Challenge Political Faultlines | Frieze
The Tokenism of Netflix’s ‘The White Tiger’ – ArtReview
Caste Away – Artforum
God Child – Artforum
In Sculptures and Prints, Mrinalini Mukherjee Captured the Wildness of Nature
The Lungs of a Loved One | Frieze
How Do We Look Backward to Move Forward? Notes from the 2020 Dhaka Art Summit | Frieze
A Strange Trick of Light | Frieze
‘Deities Are Transgendered Corpses’: the Transformative Power of WangShui | Frieze
Naeem Mohaiemen – Artforum
The dystopian spaces of Henrike Naumann | Apollo Magazine
Artists Help Scientists Map the Climate Crisis
The Relationship of Decadence to Decay in Austria's "Pleasure Capital"
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AM430_SAT.pdf
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Scratching-the-Surface.pdf
Review | ‘The Great Hack’ Dives Into the Sinister Depths of Vulnerable Data
How a Bollywood Film Declared War on India’s Brutal Caste System – And What It Got Terribly Wrong | Frieze
Telling the Other Histories: CAMP’s ‘A Photogenetic Line’ | Frieze
Arpita Singh: Six Decades of Painting | Frieze
Simryn Gill, Soft Tissue – The White Review
Sharp Critique – Artforum
Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life: A Report from the Fourth Kochi-Muziris Biennale | Frieze
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AM421_SAT.pdf
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ReportECH2018_SAT.pdf
William Dalrymple: The Historian’s Eye at Akara Art, Mumbai – ArtReview
Code Red – Artforum
Persevering Traditions: The weft and the warp at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai – ArtReview
When is Space? An exhibition on contemporary architecture at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur – ArtReview
Bani Abidi & Naeem Mohaiemen, I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter 1) – The White Review
Preti Taneja’s ‘We That Are Young’ – The White Review
Homepage – LitroUK – Litro Magazine
Creativity and contradictions in Kochi | Apollo Magazine
Raptivism -ttin
Shubigi Rao Builds Community Out of Erased Histories | Frieze
Hardeep Pandhal and Jagdeep Raina – Artforum
Dayanita Singh – Artforum
Atef Maatallah – Artforum
“Mutarerium” – Artforum
Frieze’s Guide to Venice: What To See at This Year’s Biennale
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji – Artforum
https://www.artforum.com/picks/chennai
https://frieze.com/article/critics-guide-new-delhi-india-art-fair-returns-best-shows-town?fbclid=IwAR28U6wksGgfXH0IfmtLqdfhYe_qRoO-1KVbvQVJ-jRXK-jkFQVowgc8zNA
Nikhil Chopra – Artforum
https://www.artforum.com/picks/sophia-brueckner-and-tara-kelton-77749
Jihan El-Tahri – Artforum
Shreyas Karle – Artforum
Critic’s Guide: New Delhi | Frieze
https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=72535
https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=69301
Aimée Parrott
Direct Action | Aperture | Summer 2021
Otobong Nkanga Excavates Material Histories – Frieze
We Are The Lines of Control: Unraveling Naeem Mohaiemen | Bidoun
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rithika-Merchant-Cover-Story.pdf
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/HBA-MARCH-2018-SARA-NAIM_SAT.pdf
BAMBA Skye Arundhati-Thomas
Nalini Malani – ArtReview
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/HBA-NOV-2017-KIRAN-NADAR_SAT.pdf
Homai Vyarawalla: A Portrait of a Groundbreaking Photographer – Frontpage – e-flux conversations
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/HARPERS-BAZAAR-ART-COVER-RANA-BEGUM.pdf
The Modern Subject | Frieze
Prabhavathi Meppayil
http://montezpress.com/content/3-interjection/2016/8-03/the_interjection_calendar_03skye_arundhati_thomas.pdf
“One long crime” – Criticism – e-flux
Nicoline van Harskamp – interview: ‘Once you start thinking about names as language, people get very upset or very excited’
Sohrab Hura – interview: ‘The only thing I can take responsibility for is my own relationship with the world’
Nikhil Chopra – interview: ‘I try to hold a mirror up to the world and capture what is being reflected’
https://scroll.in/magazine/919215/gerhard-steidl-the-worlds-best-photo-book-publisher-on-the-relationship-between-images-and-writing
https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/ronny-sen-interview-the-work-is-about-the-apocalypse-fire-and-dust-jharia?fbclid=IwAR1S6PHF8fyFyR5xUKZIsHOTyhySszRpVdYy-NaK1BN5Eujdn2cL-Uu_zsc
Aaditi Joshi: ‘I want to be closer to plastic and express its beautiful side’
Reforming the Narrative of History: Interview with Egyptian Filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri – Frontpage – e-flux conversations
http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/bharti-kher-interview
Kindness Lecture | BUDx Boiler Room New Delhi
Shilpa Gupta: ‘I am always playing with the idea of the location in the work’
http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/mithu-sen-interview-i-constantly-change-my-mediums-so-the-market-will-not-be-able-to-trap-me
“I Understand the Project of Trans-Feminism To Be About the Liberation of All Genders”: An Interview With the Poet and Performance Artist Alok Vaid-Menon
Aki Sasamoto: ‘I enjoy how much I can push meaning with the wrong answers’
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Lawrence_Abu_Hamdan_2019-dragged.pdf
http://www.tarq.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Batin-Catalogue.pdf
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/MOH-Final-Essay.pdf
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/AmritaSherGil_SkyeThomas-.pdf
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Elizabeth-Drury_SAT.pdf
http://skyearundhati.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rithika-Merchant-Tarq-Catalogue.pdf
The Tour | Chatterjee & Lal
Mumbai: Art Deco: the style that heralded a new future
mohammed ali road: Mohammed Ali Road: The Deco Collage
Matunga: The Family Deco
Aurora Talkies: The Public Deco
Dadar Parsi Colony: A Deco of Plans
Sea Face Park: The High Modern
deco of marine: Marine Drive: The Deco Necklace
Bandra: The Bungalow Deco
The Oval: The Deco Landing
Deco Hotels: The Last Sentinels
http://visualverse.org/submissions/nothing-living-moist/
Personal Proxies | Wrong Dreams