
- An article about the Manuscriptistan Project, “Archival Aesthetics: Framing and Exhibiting Indian Manuscripts and Manuscript Libraries,“ appeared in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies in May 2020.
- Four Manuscriptistan photographs hung in a juried exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Feb-May 2020.
- In November 2019, I gave a presentation and there was a panel discussion about the Manuscriptistan Project at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, “Seeing, Framing, and Experiencing Manuscript Cultures in Contemporary India.”
- An article by Shirya Karam about The Manuscriptistan Project appeared on Oct. 2, 2019 in the Daily Pennsylvanian: “New Van Pelt Library exhibit highlights aesthetics of Indian manuscripts”
- The first exhibition of the The Manuscriptistan Project hung Sept. 9, 2019 — Dec. 13, 2019 at the Kamin Gallery of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania (advertisement).
©2020 anthony cerulli - A photo-essay about the Manuscriptistan Project ran on Sept. 3, 2019 in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries blog: “’Manuscript Country’: Landscapes of South Asian Manuscript Libraries”
- In July 2019, I gave a presentation about the Manuscriptistan Project at the 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden, Netherlands: “What Becomes of the Archive, When the Archive Becomes Art?
- In April 2019, I gave the debut public presentation about The Manuscriptistan Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for South Asia Lecture Series: “The Manuscriptistan Project: Aesthetics in India’s Archives.”
- In 2018, two images from the Manuscriptistan Project — “Manuscriptistan 01” and “Manuscriptistan 04” — appeared in the photography journal, Light (vol. 07, Fall, pp. 10-11).
