Photographs by Nandini Valli Muthiah at Wood Street Galleries for India in Focus
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INDIA IN FOCUS FESTIVAL {BY BILL O’DRISCOLL}
WITH 1.3 BILLION people, India is the sec-
Indeed, many of the festival’s artists ond-largest nation on earth, and about explore how traditional and modern 2.6 million Indian immigrants and their Indian culture blend — or don’t. The children call the United States home. Yet, festival’s five visual-art exhibitions, all except among fans of Indian restaurants opening during the crawl and all with and Bollywood, modern Indian free admission, include the North society and culture get relaAmerican exhibition debut tively little attention here. of U.K.-born and -based FALL ARTS In Pittsburgh, at least, Hetain Patel, at Wood that’s about to change Street Galleries. Patel’s ART with India in Focus. At Home includes vidThe Pittsburgh Cultural The Pittsburgh Cultural eos and photographic Trust Gallery Crawl, a free quarterly multi-venue event Trust’s six-week festiseries that uses huDowntown, includes the launch val of art and culture mor and pop culture of the India in Focus festival, from the Republic of to explore identity forSept. 25. 412-456-6666 or India and the Indian dimation, especially for www.trustarts.org aspora is a likely highlight people with marginalized of the arts season. identities. Also at Wood It starts at the Sept. 25 Gallery Street, photographer Nandini Crawl, including a big street party with Valli Muthiah offers three photographic British-born, New York-based DJ Rekha, series that place traditional Indian culwho merges classic bhangra and Bolly- tural icons in contemporary settings — wood sounds with electronic dance music. think a bushed Krishna slumped in a
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A NEW SERIES OF INTIMATE CONCERTS FEATURING AWARD WINNING SOUL, JAZZ, AND R&B ARTISTS
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