There’s Raza and his contemporaries in the 0th gen. The 2nd gen is young yet.

It is at the Met.

You are correct, sir. I misread.

There’s also very little “modern” art that is identifiably South Asian (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.-generation) or rather, no modern South Asian movement or moment that has proved to be as important to the artistic world as the “classics” of South Asian art (painting, sculpture, architecture). Even this Karkhana exhibit draws much of its strength from its manipulation of the miniature, a “classic” form…

All this to say that from a curatorial standpoint, exhibits like Karkhana are not so appealing to the MoMA, as they neither have a well-known modern context nor do they express a profoundly new aesthetic influence (the form of collaboration the Karkhana artists are engaging in is interesting, but not necessarily new).

That said, what is important is that Karkhana breaks the classic form of miniatures and that in and of itself is important, primarily to South Asian art. It is a movement away from the history and traditions that loom (and almost glower) over all South Asian art, and that’s worth noting. Again, however, to record that moment and put it in the MoMA is difficult, primarily because American, Latin American and European art has already gone through such processes [and in order to showcase South Asian art going through a similar process, well, MoMA would need more "modern" South Asian art, which returns the argument back to my first point...]

“Fatal Love” was pretty interesting, in part because it documented a moment in art, politics and history, and had it’s scope been just a bit bigger and not so specifically refracted through the events of 9/11, I think it could of and would of made it to the MoMA.

IÂ’m not sure why this exhibit is at the modern art museum rather than the Met.

It is at the Met.

For the same reason that Fatal Love was at the Queens Art Museum and not at MoMA: there are no big, second gen names in desi modern art yet.

How can Ridgefield Connecticut have a cooler exhibit than New York?! I hope someone rectifies this, I want to see those collaborative modern minatures.

The exhibits, however, look very cool.