Queens Museum to open Indian art exhibition next year
Share: “After Midnight” will focus on art from 1947-1997. By American Bazaar Staff NEW YORK: The Queens Museum has announced that it will open an entire exhibition entitled “After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India (1947-1997)” in January 2015, which will highlight important works of art and track the growing modernity of India during its […]
Experts hail contributions of state to Indian art
Share:PATNA: State art, culture and youth affairs department secretary Chanchal Kumar has said future is linked to past via present and lessons learned from the past must be kept in mind while formulating policies for a better future. Addressing a gathering on the concluding day of a three-day seminar at Patna Museum to highlight the […]
China shows interest in Indian art scene at India Art Fair
Share:Sunday, 2 February 2014 – 6:45am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Zhou Taihei poses in front of the IAF halls at the NSIC Grounds in New Delhi. ARIJIT SEN DNA China, the world’s second biggest art market is showing interest in the art scene in India, finds Gargi Gupta at the India Art […]
Kerala a Better Place for Art
Share:The 21st-century Kerala is becoming a better place for art, according to renowned painter-sculptor A Ramachandran. The state has moved forward by opening itself up to the larger world of art outside its geographical boundaries, but its visual arts sensibility has scope to become more active, the Padma Bhushan-winning septuagenarian said in the run-up to […]
The Indian Museum Makeover
Share: The Homi Bhabha collection at Mumbai’s National Gallery of Modern Art. Photo: S. Kumar/Mint The “Aims and Objectives” section of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) website was so spot on, it took my breath away. It began with the usual stuff about acquiring, organizing and preserving art. It ended with the following […]
India Could Have Done Without Modern Art
Share: Artist A. Ramachandran at Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kochi. Photo:Vipin Chandran Unlike in the Western world, India has never had a historic necessity to experiment with a genre that has come to be known as modern art, according to renowned painter-sculptor A. Ramachandran. “Ideally, our art should be advancing along a path that […]
Art as Investment
Share:Recently, auction house Christie’s announced it would hold its inaugural auction in India this December. It would be the first international auction house to conduct sales in India. In recent auctions, Sotheby’s sold a painting for $30 million, while Christie’s sold 66 paintings worth $495 million. These reports make one wonder about the benefits of […]
Pakistani Artists Condemn Vandalism
Share: Karachi: Pakistani artists were quick to condemn the attack by Hindu extremists on an art gallery in Ahmedabad showcasing the work of Pakistani and Indian artists. But their Indian counterparts were not. Members of Bajrang Dal, an extremist youth organisation, ransacked the Amdavad Ni Gufa Art Gallery and destroyed the collection of paintings […]
How is art not luxury?
Share:The last few days of the current fiscal saw Indian art worth Rs 100 crore being auctioned at three separate venues over a few hours each, yet it failed to form part of what the cognoscenti consider the $6 billion luxury industry (minus real-estate). It’s not art alone that’s outside the purview of what is […]
