On the Edge ; a Skeletal Autorickshaw, a Victim of the Mumbai Riots. A Local Superhero Who Will Solve Urban Problems. A Golden Door That Leads to a Mysterious Future. Indian Art Is Alive, Well and Currently Showing in Vienna.

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Art is alive in Vienna. It's on mementos bearing Gustav Klimt's famous kiss. It's in museums such as the Kunsthistorisches where Bruegels compete for attention with the Rubens and the Museum fr Angewandte Kunst where 60 of the 200 Hamzanama miniatures survive.

And till November 1, art is alive in Chalo India, an exhibition of 27 contemporary artists from India, at the Essl Museum in the Baroque city by the Danube. From 35-year-old Jitish Kallat's trenchant political statement, embodied in a coin which reflects two visions of post-liberalisation India, to 42-year-old Ashim Purkayastha's inversion of Mahatma Gandhi on rupee notes, the exhibition was as vital as it was controversial.

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On the Edge ; a Skeletal Autorickshaw, a Victim of the Mumbai Riots. A Local Superhero Who Will Solve Urban Problems. A Golden Door That Leads to a Mysterious Future. Indian Art Is Alive, Well and Currently Showing in Vienna.

From Gulamohammed Sheikh's Speaking Tree from Kaavad: The Travelling Shrine, which tells the story of the coexistence between Hindus and Muslims, to 43-year-old Tushar Joag's Unicell Man who provides witty but fake ...

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