Ahead of its physical launch in 2021, Museum of Art & Photography launches digitally with a six-day virtual festival featuring experts in the field
“The pandemic has changed the way we live. People still fear crowded public spaces and it will be a while before we return to life as we knew it,” says Kamini Sawhney, director, Museum of Art & Photography (MAP). When they started deliberating on a physical launch in 2020, the situation at hand was still miles away. The museum had planned to open in Bengaluru’s Kasturba Road with a collection of over 20,000 works spanning pre-modern art, popular culture, folk and tribal art, modern and contemporary art, textiles, craft and design, and photography.
Waiting for things to improve was out of question. “Since week one of the nationwide lockdown, we have been experimenting with different things in a bid to understand our audiences better: from interactive digital engagement pieces to taking our ‘Art & Culture’ lecture series…