Key voices from the world of art in India will unite to discuss the importance of quality education that talks about the nation’s art scene
Siddharth Soni speaks with a visitor at the Immerse 2025 Art Exhibition. Pics courtesy/ Dr Shantilal K Somaiya School of Art
As Theodore Dreiser, an American journalist and novelist rightly said, “Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” Since time immemorial, preservation of various art forms has continued to inspire modern art culture, enabling its survival for the future generations to witness.
Artist Siddharth Soni’s untitled artwork at the Immerse 2025 exhibition
A similar initiative, undertaken by Dr Shantilal K Somaiya School of Art and Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation aims (JNAF) to bridge the gap between the thriving art ecosystem and the present education system through The Art of Learning About Art, a platform to discuss various resources required to mould the learning that encompasses the dynamic and ever-changing world of art. Having recently introduced two MA programmes; Art History and Visual Studies and Writing and Criticism, one-of-a-kind in India, the subjects offered in the course are aimed to place Mumbai one step closer to the global art platforms.
An artwork by Bhanu Shrivastav
Gracing the event will be a panel of notable artists and curators such as Bose Krishnamachari, director of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Reena Saini Kallat, internationally-acclaimed artist from Mumbai, Puja Vaish, director, JNAF and Siddharth Somaiya, chairman, Board of Studies, Dr Shantilal K. Somaiya School of Art. Abhay Sardesai, director of the University, will be the moderator for the discussion.
Abhay Sardesai
“The panellists will look at how, over the years, the act of learning and teaching about art has changed, the deficiencies of the system that are now ready to be re-invented and how all of us can come together to create different and relevant syllabi,’’ stated Sardesai. With the aim to improve and upgrade the present art pedagogy to make space for the rising art culture, the discussion strives to impart certain key takeaways for the audience, including, “knowing the different ways in which we are trying to understand our changing landscape of art and how art history, writing and art criticism can help deepen the understanding of art, locally and internationally,”
states Sardesai.
ON July 11; 5.30 pm onwards
AT Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort.
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