ART AND ARCHITECTURE: THE NEW YORK SCENE;
Visions From Nigeria and India And a Van Searching for Utopia

An enchanting first New York show by the Indian artist Ranbir Kaleka melded painting, video and digital art in surreal tableaus that brought visionary encounters to life with a magician's hand. Mr. Kaleka also appeared in ''Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India'' at Asia Society and the Queens Museum of Art, which spun off fine solo debuts by Subodh Gupta and Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Jeebesh Bagchi). Together they radically expanded the conventional definition of Indian art. 

December 25, 2005