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Art lessons for Mumbai from Jaipur

This weekend, Artisans' will host A Quest For Cultural Nostalgia, a project that documents art in Jaipur's public spaces. The Guide spoke to its project curator Khushboo Bharti, and taking a cue from that opened up the discussion on Mumbai's tryst with public art, with some of the city's most respected planners

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For the last three years, researcher and curator Khushboo Bharti has been documenting art across public spaces of the Pink City -- Jaipur. Bharti’s efforts were aimed at tracing the development of art in the continually changing public spaces of Jaipur. It highlighted sculptures and mural paintings within the city, on over bridges, road crossings, its railway stations and entry gates to the old city. The project delved on the process of commissioning art in the public domain and how changes in government influenced the content, form and location of public art projects.u00a0This photo-documentation, titled A Quest for Cultural Nostalgia, is being showcased in association with the India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Craft and Design (IICD), Jaipur. Excerpts from an interview with Bharti:

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