The study shows that demonetisation has not affected the sale of Indian arts. This can be said as 34 out of 55 records were created after the implementation of currency ban. We all have heard about the magnificent paintings of M F Husain, Raja Ravi Varma and other Indian artists. These artworks have been appreciated […]
The Centre Pompidou spotlights the cutting-edge oeuvre of this feminist stalwart with a retrospective ‘Onanism’, 1969. Photo: Vadhera Art Gallery Altogether, it was a very rich atmosphere.” This is how Nalini Malani described her experience at the Vision Exchange Workshop (VIEW), the multidisciplinary initiative run by veteran artist Akbar Padamsee from 1969-72 out of his […]
[Book excerpt] Any examination of Britain’s relationship with India must take account of this extraordinary organisation. Eighteenth-century India was “the theatre of scenes highly important” to Britain.1 So wrote the artist and traveler William Hodges. He was in a good position to judge. Hodges was one of the first British professional landscape painters to visit India, […]
Saffronart to host a fundraiser on October 31 featuring works by more than 40 leading modern and contemporary artists Saffronart and the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) will hold a fundraiser auction on October 31 in support of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. The KBF is a non-profit charitable trust engaged in promoting art and culture and educational […]
Bhupen Khakhar’s painting ‘De-Luxe Tailors’ fetches record-breaking £1.1 million at Sotheby’s auction It is a strange fate of many famous artists that they earn far more posthumously than while they’re alive. Bhupen Khakhar, one of the foremost figures of Indian modernism, has set a new sale record. The painting De-Luxe Tailors from his Tradesmen […]
Leading artist Sudarshan Shetty’s latest installation, Shoonya Ghar, a work of film poetry, architecture, and music comes to the city What was a bhajan by saint-poet Gorakhnath, became a nirguni rendition by Pandit Kumar Gandharva in the 20th century, which entered contemporary Indian artist Sudharshan Shetty’s consciousness and triggered a morphosis into a film and […]
(L-R) Dancer Kathak, 1973; Jigsaw. Shiavax Chavda’s retrospective show, which begins this week at Mumbai’s Jehangir Art Gallery, features some of his best-known paintings, sketches and drawings, many of which carry the motif of Indian classical dance forms, writes Bhumika Popli. What excites me is pure painting: line, pattern, colour and balance […]
Bahraini artists Jamal Abdulrahim, Ayman Jaafar, Seema Baqi and Mayasa Al Sowaidi share their metaphors with Suman Doonga An airline window opens to the tactile fluidity of nature abstracts, the fire and ice elements almost merging into each other. A series of doors is waiting to be opened. Metaphorically, they were Bahraini artists’ attempts to […]
Copyrighted image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that the Reliance Foundation, the Indian philanthropic organization founded by Nita and Mukesh Ambani, has promised a generous gift to support exhibitions that explore and celebrate the arts of India. “This is an […]
Photography arrived early in India. The first recorded photographs of the subcontinent were taken in the 1840s, and the authorities of the British Empire appointed a string of official photographers to record the architecture and people of the subcontinent. Over the following decades, Indian photographers such as Lala Deendayal turned the tables, recording their fellow countrymen […]
