Share: Cor-Ten steel, earth and mixed media monumental artwork by British Indian Anish Kapoor at the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images) Associated Press Versailles, France: Vandals have spray-painted a controversial Anish Kapoor sculpture in the garden of the palace of Versailles outside Paris. The 70-meter (230-foot) red metal work named […]
Share: MG ROAD: Artmantram is organising an exhibition, Anahata -II, curated by Shan Re, an artist. The show is raising funds for the rehabilitation of people in Nepal who have been struggling for survival , surrounded by death and destruction, fear and uncertainty. This group show features over 25 artists and around 70 artworks and the […]
Share: “The Great Departure” Gandhara, 2nd century, Loriyan Tangai, Schist, 48 x 54 x 8.6 cm (Courtesy Indian Museum, Kolkata) Any guess as to where Asia’s oldest museum is? We’ll give you a hint, some of its treasures are currently on loan to Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum. “Treasure from Asia’s Oldest Museum: Buddhist Art from […]
Share:The two houses will do almost anything to outmaneuver each other, and the friction between them will likely only increase under new CEOs. by Stephanie Baker and Katya Kazakina Illustration: Greg Kletsel/Bloomberg Markets This May, after billionaires had outbid billionaires in New York’s contemporary art auctions, something became immediately clear: Christie’s had just clobbered Sotheby’s […]
Share:The opening sequence of Laurent Bregeat’s Ram Kumar: Nostalgic Longing, a documentary on Ram Kumar, shows the ageing artist, bent over his easel, drawing lines and curves with charcoal on a white canvas. “Ultimately nothing may remain of these shapes, but this is just an exercise in trying to find out something (…) important,” he […]
Share: Shattered sales records have become standard fare in recent years, so something extraordinary was afoot when even industry veterans did a double take last month. Christie’s sold a Picasso in New York for $179.4 million – the highest price paid for a single work of art at auction. That heady news capped a furious […]
Share: Works by veteran artist V.S. Gaitonde that were sold during the recently-concluded auction of modern and contemporary South Asian art in London. Works by Indian masters sell for £13,70,000 at a recent auction. Modern and contemporary Indian art has had much success at auctions held overseas, with international buyers taking note of the talent […]
Share:One aspect of Indian artists who have lived and worked overseas is their concern with identity. S H Raza became the first Asian (or, more correctly, the first non-European) to win the prestigious critics award in Paris in 1956, paving the way for a successful career in France. During its early decades, collectors of his […]
Share:Merely in its second edition, the Kochi Muziris Biennale has begun to reveal the impact of exhibiting art in public spaces, integrating the city and its people into a narrative that is less intimidating or exclusionary than art fairs or other expositions. No wonder the 56-edition-old Venice Biennale is among the most powerful of art […]
Share:According to Knight Frank’s The Wealth Report 2015, “it is always possible to commission a new yacht, but nobody can paint another Monet or build a classic Ferrari” “Gold has lost its lustre. That’s the conclusion global asset managers are making as condominiums and contemporary art emerge as more attractive investments” – as reported in […]
