Our spring issue may be my favorite we put together each year. It’s our annual artist issue, and for the past several years, we’ve used it as a chance to focus on the creatives shaping specific regions around the world. In the past, that’s been the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and its diaspora, South Korea, and more. This year, we’ve turned our pages over to India.
And for the first time, we’re welcoming an incredible Guest Editor, Noelle Kadar. She is the co-founder of Jaipur Centre for Art and uniquely attuned to the world of contemporary art, design, fashion, and lifestyle coming out of India at the moment. Through the work of Jaipur Centre for Art, which is an exhibition space, curatorial platform, and flexible artist residency, she is committed to connecting the world of art and design to the incredibly rich artisan history of the city of Jaipur. This issue has come together in wonderful conversation with Kadar and her team. It has been an absolute pleasure to put this all together, both in our pages and within an in-person exhibition later this spring.
A Focus on Indian Contemporary Art
As this is the Artist Issue, we, of course, visit the studio of names well-known on the international level, like Shilpa Gupta, Asim Waqif, and Sosa Joseph. We also meet artists we’ll now be keeping on our radar, like Narayan Sinha, Biraaj Dodiya, Raghav Babbar, Thukral & Tagra, How Are You Feeling Studio, and Prarthna Singh. This growing landscape of contemporary art in India is in so many ways thanks to the visionary philanthropists, gallerists, and collectors of Mumbai, New Delhi, and elsewhere.
We also can’t talk about India without talking about design, fashion, and hospitality. For design, we spoke with masters of architecture, Studio Lotus, as well as Studio Raw Material and Vikram Goyal. For fashion, Gaurav Gupta continues to make waves in couture while Sabyasachi Mukherjee remains an icon of Indian traditional fashion. And the timing could not have been more perfect to visit the Chanakya Atelier for Christian Dior’s latest couture collaboration. Finally, in our news and profile section you’ll find just a taste of the unparalleled hospitality and food scene India has to offer.
We can’t wait for you to dive in, as we’ve had the exciting opportunity to do so over the past several months. Stay tuned for what’s next with Whitewall in India. More soon! Download the issue HERE.
—Katy Donoghue
Editor-in-Chief
Noelle Kadar with HH Sawai Padmanabh Singh at the Jaipur Centre for Art, photo by Lodovico Colli di Felizzano.
