Not often does one get to savour a rustic street fair that features craftspersons representing nooks of India. Ethnicity 2002 Kala Ghoda Craft Fair, however, promises that in Mumbai on all Sundays in January. Organised by the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation and the Morarka Centre for Crafts (Morcraft), the idea is to bring to modern mind the colours of rural India and encourage interaction between artists, designers and students. TThere will be stalls of craft like kanthawork, kalamkari, bidri art; performances of folk and tribal dances; and workshops conducted by Purnima Sampat & Shital Mehta. For registration contact Deepa Shinde at Morcraft, (022) 2833737 (ext: 222) or 2810620.

THE ARTIST AND HIS REPERTOIRE: Sabavala (left); and one of his paintings

MUMBAI
Painting Exhibition

It appears that veteran artist Jehangir Sabavala looks at life through a prism-all his pictures have a stiff, angular quality as though paint were applied to recrafted crystals of glass. In his latest series of paintings, to be shown at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, Sabavala continues in this jagged genre, filling geometrical space with muted colours,
mostly ochres and blues, and continuing his life-long dialogue between the actual and the perceived. His panoramic vocabulary consists of landscapes, foliage, crowds of people, solitary pilgrims, moon over cityscapes and constructions of abstract origami.
On from January 22 to February 4. The exhibition later travels
to Delhi and New York. Call (022) 491-0728/9 for details.

-Compiled by Natasha Israni and Anshul Avijit