About Tamarind Art Council
Tamarind Art Council (TAC) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting contemporary art in North America. Our focus is to support all types of artistic expression, including performing and fine arts, by sponsoring art-related activities and cross-cultural events in order to expand the audience for art and culture.
Our mission: Tamarind Art Council exemplifies how life can revolve around the arts. Our mission is to inspire the work of contemporary artists and performers and to facilitate public appreciation for these unique cultural art forms. Some of our events include art exhibitions, performing arts, book launches, lectures and other cultural programs. As part of our on-going efforts, we support art museums, cultural communities and not-for-profit organizations around the globe. Tamarind Art has become a nexus for many art organizations and is a resource center for gaining an understanding of all forms of art, artists, and other areas of interest to individuals, businesses and art investors.
Tamarind Art Council is proud to announce our sponsorship of The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) film screening “INDIA NOW,” a bi-annual program launched in 2007 that will be presented at the museum as “NEW INDIA” again in June 2009.
Our most successful and well-received exhibition, entitled “Gandhi: The Legacy,” was held in 2008 in collaboration with Phillip Glass Opera and Satya Graha Forum. The photography exhibition captured a nostalgic view of Gandhi’s true legacy. It was displayed from April 10th – May 3, 2009. We had two lectures including one by Ram Rahman who placed contemporary Indian Photography into the context of the “lost” histories of photography in the post-Independence era. Prof. Akeel Bilgrami, a Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy from the Dept. of Philosophy and Director of the Heyman Centra for the Humanities at Columbia University, concluded this special exhibition with a lecture on Mahatma Gandhi.
Other sponsorships have included Festival of India with WMI featuring Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Husain, Masters of Indian Music – Rahul Sharma & Zakir Husain with WMI in November 2007, Prema Murthy’s Fuzzy Logic Exhibition at P.S. 1 MoMA from June – September 2007, and the Contemporary Photography and Video Art exhibition “India Public Places/Private Spaces” held at the Newark Museum of Art from September 2007 – January 2008. Lecture by Pablo Bartholomew, April 2009. A Talk by Rebecca S. Brown, an associate professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, and author of the recent book, Art for a Modern India, 1947-1980. April 17, 2009. We are participating in ACAW with several performances in the Asia Art Week, and many others.
Tamarind Art Council is located at 142 E. 39th Street, New York, NY, 10016. Contact us by calling (212)200-8000 or emailing admin@tamarindarts.org.