23-04-2017 06:01 via mid-day.com

Heritage Lab comes to Mumbai to help create space on Wikipedia for female artists

Mrinalini Mukherjee at MS University, Baroda1969. PIc/source: Jyoti Bhatt. Courtesy: The Baroda Archives project, Asia Art ArchiveThe late Mrinalini Mukherjee, who fashioned the most sensuous sculptures out of hemp, is a name that Indian art history cannot afford to miss out. Mukherjee, who passed away in 2015, was notable for her iconic figures — at once robust and curvaceous — inspired by goddesses, vegetation and archetypal forms. Her works are part of collections at Tate and New
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