Share:Bidding for brush washer from 11th century Ru imperial kiln began at HK$80 million, and 30 bids were made before it was sold; amid speculation over who the buyer is, inquiry to Chinese collector Liu Yiqian draws a polite non-answer A 900-year-old brush washer from the Northern Song dynasty broke the auction record for Chinese […]
Share:THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Finally, it’s time for a fitting tribute to Raja Ravi Varma in the form of an international foundation in the name of the celebrated painter. Titled Raja Ravi Varma International Foundation for Art and Culture, the organization which will promote paintings and other Indian arts, is established by the descendants and admirers of Varma. […]
Share:Last Friday Sept. 22 , Dr. Umesh Gaur presented a Faulconer Gallery talk titled “Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India.” Gaur and his wife, Dr. Sunanda Gaur, own what is reputably the largest collection of contemporary Indian art in the United States. During the talk, Gaur discussed the new Faulconer exhibit, […]
Share:In his monograph on Manaku, art historian BN Goswamy reconstructs the life and art of the 18th-century Pahari painter When BN Goswamy introduced us to the complete portfolio of Nainsukh in 1997, the miniature painter from the hills of Punjab was a relatively little-known entity in the contemporary art world. Goswamy’s discerning biographical sketch not […]
Share: Portrait of Gandhi | Credit: Manu Parekh. Courtesy: Manu Parekh: Sixty Years of Selected Works, Aleph Book Company. Annapurna Garimella: What does it mean to be an artist working in his seventies? You started painting when you were sixteen and have been making art for seven decades. What does making art mean to you […]
Share: An ASEAN-India Artist’s Camp has got under way at Udaipur to mark the 25th anniversary of the ASEAN-India Dialogue. The event, which is being organised by the External Affairs Ministry in collaboration with NGO Seher, will run September 21-29 at The Ananta in Udaipur. It was launched in the national capital on Wednesday in […]
Share:The art show of works by Indian masters of modern art in the city is not to be missed ‘Kamdhenu’ by Gogi Saroj Pal on display at the Punjab Kala Bhawan, Sector 16, in Chandigarh.(HT Photo) Describing the wave of abstract art in the US way back in the sixties, American cartoonist Al Capp quipped […]
Share: OFFBEAT…ART CURATION EDUCATION For those with a penchant for interpreting art and a fascination for history, the course offers a plethora of opportunities With dialogues on the importance of cultural institutions and spaces on the rise, the spotlight shifts to the experts in the field of art management. With massive, valuable collections in the […]
Share:The urban India we live in today is divided on the era before and after street art. Courtesy of a group of socially responsible young adults who felt like it was their duty to give back to the cities and the inhabitants a sense of creativity and imagination that had never even been up for […]
Share: LONDON: This October, Sotheby’s will exhibit some 400 items from the collection of Indian and Islamic art that belonged to renowned British artist Howard Hodgkin, to be sold at auction in London on October 24. Hodgkin, who died in March at the age of 84, is widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest artists. […]
