Geeta Kapur is a critic and curator. Her essays are widely anthologized; her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978), When Was Modernism (2000) and Critic's Compass: Navigating Practice (forthcoming 2023), besides Speech Acts (2023). She was a founder-editor of Journal of Arts and Ideas, and advisory board member of Third Text and Marg. Curatorial projects include: 'Dispossession', Johannesburg Biennale (1995); 'Bombay/Mumbai', Century City, Tate Modern (co-curation, 2001); 'subTerrain', House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003); 'Aesthetic Bind', Chemould, Mumbai (five exhibitions, 2013-14).