Linking collections globally, Museums Without Borders is a unique digital collaboration between MAP and institutions in India and across the world. Ranging from six to ten minutes, each episode in this series juxtaposes an artwork from MAP with an object from a partner museum exploring commonalities and differences in style, subject or narrative.
In collaboration with the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, this episode looks at three pairs of portraits of three nineteenth century rulers from Rajasthan. Watch as Mrinalini Venkateswaran explores the similarities and differences between these images, photographic technology and the socio-political spaces that these rulers inhabited.
This episode looks at two saris, one from the CSMVS’s collection and the other from MAP exploring the inscriptions they carry and questions of gender and nation-building. Click here for ISL/Subtitles Version
This episode looks at a work by Henri Matisse and KG Subramanyan, exploring the theme of women in interior settings.
In collaboration with the Victoria Memorial Hall, this episode looks at the motif of the cat and prawn, uncovering its meaning as it travels from the 19th century to the present.
This episode explores Jayashree Chakravarty's evolving practice through Personal Space, a monumental paper scroll in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, along with Hovering Angels, an early painting in MAP's collection.
