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 today? […]
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 the […]
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 […]
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 storehouses […]
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 […]
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. He […]
ArtBAB has worked with artists of India and had an excellent participation. Amid great participation from India, there has been a fantastic interaction with Indian artists ArtBAB (Art Bahrain Across Borders), an initiative under patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Wife of the King of Bahrain is an international fair […]
The art world is evolving to cope with the fragmentation of the market. Traditional auction business models are now facing tough competition from exclusively online auctions, with lower running costs When you think of an art auction, what do you picture? A man with a gavel, standing next to a priceless masterpiece while a well-dressed […]
GST aims at making the tax structure uniform across India but is bad for the already struggling art industry, which needs more incentives and opportunities to grow, says renowned artist Jagannath Panda. For the Odisha-born artist, who is showcasing his new series of works in a solo exhibition, titled ‘Crystal Cities’, after a seven-year hiatus, […]
One of India’s most celebrated contemporary artists spoke to Lounge about his life and art, ahead of his Delhi retrospective Manu Parekh at the National Gallery. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint In a cavernous wing of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi, a man perched on a scissor lift is maneuvering a spotlight attached to […]
