Bhupen Khakhar Collection

Art from the collection of Brian Weinstein, Ph.D.

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Collecting The Works of Bhupen Khakhar

The guide to the Hindu temple expected my question about the erotic sculptures on the wall; his answer was immediate and simple:  “Sex is part of life.  We believe it should be portrayed openly and directly.” That exchange took place in 1981 during a sabbatical leave from Howard University which I spent at the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore in southern India.   (more…)

  • Collecting Bhupen Khakhar
  • Photographs of Bhupen
  • Funeral
  • Articles
    • “Gay and Hearty”
    • Grosvenor 2013
    • “Love… ” by Jyoti Dhar
    • N. E. Sjoman
  • Essays
    • Trisha Gupta Essay
    • Sanjukta Sharma Essay
    • Geeta Kapur
    • Girish Shahane Essay
    • Adil Jussawalla Essay
    • Nada Raza Essay & Interview
    • Gulammohammed Sheikh essay
    • Nissim Ezekiel & Enrique Juncosa
    • Defending Figurative Art
    • Bombay Painters and Poets
    • Sudhir Chandra Bio
  • Interviews
    • Timothy Hyman Interview
    • Howard Hodgkin Conversations
    • Interview with Ein Lall
    • Conversation with Ulli Beier
    • Interview with Sadanand Menon
    • Nilima Sheikh interview
    • Hitesh Rana and Sunil Kothari
    • Gulammohammed Sheikh video
  • Exhibitions
    • Retrospectives
    • Paris 1986
    • The Netherlands 1993
    • Honored by Artists
  • Bhupen’s Writings
    • “Notes on my Visual Sources”
    • Artistic Method
    • Messages from Bhupen Khakhar
    • Phoren Soap
  • Films and Videos
    • “Figures of Thought”, Arun Khopkar
    • Tariq Ali film

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