Cholamandal Artists Village
Seaside artists' commune of studios, galleries and a sculpture park, founded on batik sales.
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This guide to Cholamandal Artists Village on the coast south of Chennai begins at the entrance gate with a simple question about money. It follows K. C. S. Paniker, a Madras art-school principal of the nineteen sixties, and the graduates who could find almost no buyers for modern art. You'll hear about batik, a fishing hamlet with no road, and the cyclones that have battered the cottages since. Best heard standing under the old banyan tree by the gate.
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