Share: When it comes to Chintan Upadhyay’s clones, there’s more where they came from Manju Sara Rajan “It’s not my baby,” says Chintan Upadhyay. “I function like a DJ, constantly putting things together,” says the artist. Looking around the 35-year-old’s western suburb studio (one of several) in Mumbai—an unremarkable apartment in an unremarkable far-flung neighbourhood—you’d […]
Share:Moumita Chakrabarti Earth Synergy: An Indo-Korean Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, a joint venture of artists of the two culturally oriented countries, Korea and India, brought together 67 artists who presented more than 100 brilliant pieces of ceramic works. The seed for this was first sowed when Kristine Michael, a contemporary artist and co-curator of […]
Share:Georgina Maddox Am I Indian, Bihari, male, heterosexual? Or Indian, Gujarati, female, homosexual? Do I drop my labels or wear them with pride? How do public postures inform my work, will I one day be seen as an ‘international’ artist from a truly cosmopolitan milieu? Where do I fit on the grid of globo-local in […]
Share: Vandana KalraPosted online: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 1158 hrs Shanghai art collector Kong Ying trots the globe in search of “good art.” But, two years ago, when he was in India, he was unwilling to pick up any artwork. “The Indian art boom was too recent and risky,” he says from the comfort […]
Share: Sujeet RajanPosted online: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 2238 hrs Leading gallery calls off Amitava Das show after another says he has contract with themNEW YORK, FEBRUARY 9:An ugly legal spat between two high-profile Indian art galleries in Manhattan saw the cancelling of the opening of a much-touted solo show by Indian artist Amitava […]
Share:From The Economist print edition Offering guarantees gives auctioneers a vested interest in their auctions AFPROBERT BROOKS has firm views about his trade. “The minute an auction house moves away from simply being an intermediary between buyers and sellers and takes on the role of financier,” he says, “it starts to change its core character […]
Share: Ina Puri and Manorama Sharma (TOI Photo) 11 Feb 2008, 0000 hrs IST,TNN Ina Puri celebrated her ambitious project a book on Indian Art through the lens of veteran photographer Nemai Ghosh at a classy evening at the ITC Hotel, The Grand Central on Saturday. And a number of eminent people […]
Share:www.smh.com.au New wealth is redrawing the art world map, and the centres of its universe have moved to Russia, China, India and the Middle East On a Wednesday evening in early May a middle-aged man wearing a blue blazer walked into Sotheby’s in Manhattan, collected a bidding paddle and followed an usher to a seat […]
Share:11 Feb, 2008, 0011 hrs IST,Ashoke Nag, TNN KOLKATA: While the phenomenal rise in Indian art prices may have slowed down the market to an extent, it is also true that price growth has fuelled demand levels in the past three years or so. When art prices were low some years back, buyers in […]
Share:Georgina Maddox What is the importance of art critics? Do people take it as seriously as they do in the West when a show is panned by a critic, asks Maria Elena, another student from Milan, who is here to study Indian art. To answer her question, the field of Indian art history and criticism […]
