Kolkata Museum of Modern Art, KMOMA
India and Kolkata Kolkata has long been recognized as one of India’s key cultural centres. From its time as the capital of the British Empire in India to its current modern era, the city has been home to a diverse group of key personalities, iconoclastic ideas and revolutionary trends instrumental in shaping the social, artistic and literary landscape of contemporary India. A city with a tradition of folk and popular art, Kolkata was also the site of India’s first School of Art in the mid-nineteenth century. At the heart of India’s avant-garde in the colonial and post-colonial eras, the School and the city became a laboratory of ideas and techniques that coupled Indian and Western art practices and played a formative role in the development of Indian Modernism. This artistic legacy continues to this day, with Kolkata continuing its role as a centre for contemporary art production. Project Ambition The new Kolkata Museum of Modern Art will represent Kolkata’s cultural renown by establishing itself as an ‘Art City’, bringing modern and contemporary, national and international art together with performing arts, music, cinema, photography, literature, fine art and sculpture.
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