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“Much of the discourse in the contemporary art in the international arena reflects this prejudice today. Politics again played meddler in 2014 when the museum announced that another building of culture spread over 130,000 sq ft was to come up, with the MNS claiming that the new wing would eat up the adjacent playground. It is a city I grew up in.
“Opening up the artwork to a human being and explaining to them why this is art and how it is a way of looking into our history and addressing it in an interrogative way is part of the job.”
INITIATIVE
The restoration and rejuvenation of the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla
THE HERO
Tasneem Zakaria Mehta
NOMINATED FOR
Bringing to life Byculla’s Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, giving the city a new space for education and culture
GETS MY VOTE
Mehta has given the city a rare gift.
He designed The Art Walk at the brand new T2 terminal in Mumbai.
He is also part of INTACH constituted the first Governing Council.
The project is spread over three km, an area covering 80,000 sq ft on walls at the Mumbai T2 terminal. So part of it was contesting that assertion that Indian artists are not capable of representing themselves.
The museum is not a graveyard of objects,” she says. Indian artists needed an institution or platform, and not just visual arts, but contemporary culture in its full sense.”
In the same vein, the museum serves National Street of Performing Arts to have a place to play, film programmes, and hosts regular talks on subjects ranging from miniature paintings to textiles.
In fact, one of the things I wanted to do at the museum is to position the art in the city vis-à-vis Bengal; to create an art history, which was prior to the Bombay Progressive Art Movement.”
Currently, with an average footfall of over three-and-a-halflakh people a year, the museum has become a go-to cultural hub in the city.
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She joined the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in 2003. Soon after, Mukesh Ambani came to the Museum’s rescue by announcing a grant of Rs 1.8 crore.
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A curator and arts administrator, Tasneem Zakaria Mehta is the current honorary director and managing trustee of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum.
He also had four elder sisters. Conceived by its first curator George Birdwood in the 19th century, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum (previously known as the Victoria and Albert Museum) highlights the city’s cultural heritage and history through a rare collection of fine and decorative arts. “We like to energise and engage current talent, people of today, without losing our sense of past.”
The most gratifying part of her job she finds is reading the comments’ book.
Finally he got a chance to work at studio of French designer, Pierre Cardin.
Mehta studied English literature at Delhi University, followed by a fine arts degree from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, and a Master’s in liberal arts from Columbia University, New York. But in these intervening years, the museum has been a Greenfield project, “where every aspect from educating the staff to restoring over 4,500 objects was worked upon meticulously,” says Zakaria Mehta.
Additionally, she has served as a board member of the Salar Jung Museum and vice-chairperson of the Indian National Trust of Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH).