THE PROGRESSIVE REVOLUTION: MODERN ART FOR A NEW INDIA
“The Progressive Revolution: Modern Art for a New India,” organized by guest curator Zehra Jumabhoy and Boon Hui Tan, director of New York’s Asia Society Museum, was centered around the Progressive Artists’ Group, a collective of men that formed in Mumbai following India’s independence from Britain in 1947. At the time, the young artists, mostly painters, saw themselves as rebels, passionate about their country’s potential. They envisioned
