Indian antiques ◾Indian artefacts are stolen, smuggled and sold abroad for millions of dollars ◾Prof Kirit Mankodi, a retired archaeologist from Pune, traces stolen artefacts ◾He also provides details of existing artefacts to prevent their sale in case they get stolen itting at a computer in his drawing room, this 75-year-old is busy surfing […]
Peabody-Essex Museum offers window into the reality of South Asia By Will Broaddus Staff Writer Feb 4, 2016 We all have images of India, whether it’s the Taj Mahal, intense poverty or Bollywood movies. “It’s hard to get beyond those,” said Sona Datta, curator of South Asian art at Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, […]
A buff sandstone figure of a dancing Ganesha, a Chola granite dvarapala figure and miniature paintings from the ancestral collections of Bikaner royalty will be among the rare items to go under the hammer in an auction to be held by Christie’s on December 15, in Mumbai. Announcing its third consecutive India Sale, the world’s […]
PHOTO: Help-A-School Foundation director and Trinity Gardens Primary School principal Jan Carey in front of a selection of students’ work donated to the fundraiser. (891 ABC Adelaide: Brett Williamson) More than 350 students and 18 artists are creating artworks destined for auction to help raise money to purchase much-need equipment for poverty-stricken schools in rural India. Jan […]
A panel discussion on “Space and Place: Transcending Local Meaning in Indian Contemporary Art” was presented by Eye on India Festival at downtown co-host Kavi Gupta Gallery, June 11. Moderated by Tanya Gill, the conversation was between artist and researcher at School of the Art Institute, Shaurya Kumar and curator of contemporary Indian art, Betty […]
Cor-Ten steel, earth and mixed media monumental artwork by British Indian Anish Kapoor at the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images) Associated Press Versailles, France: Vandals have spray-painted a controversial Anish Kapoor sculpture in the garden of the palace of Versailles outside Paris. The 70-meter (230-foot) red metal work named “Dirty […]
MG ROAD: Artmantram is organising an exhibition, Anahata -II, curated by Shan Re, an artist. The show is raising funds for the rehabilitation of people in Nepal who have been struggling for survival , surrounded by death and destruction, fear and uncertainty. This group show features over 25 artists and around 70 artworks and the artists […]
“The Great Departure” Gandhara, 2nd century, Loriyan Tangai, Schist, 48 x 54 x 8.6 cm (Courtesy Indian Museum, Kolkata) Any guess as to where Asia’s oldest museum is? We’ll give you a hint, some of its treasures are currently on loan to Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum. “Treasure from Asia’s Oldest Museum: Buddhist Art from the […]
The two houses will do almost anything to outmaneuver each other, and the friction between them will likely only increase under new CEOs. by Stephanie Baker and Katya Kazakina Illustration: Greg Kletsel/Bloomberg Markets This May, after billionaires had outbid billionaires in New York’s contemporary art auctions, something became immediately clear: Christie’s had just clobbered Sotheby’s […]
The opening sequence of Laurent Bregeat’s Ram Kumar: Nostalgic Longing, a documentary on Ram Kumar, shows the ageing artist, bent over his easel, drawing lines and curves with charcoal on a white canvas. “Ultimately nothing may remain of these shapes, but this is just an exercise in trying to find out something (…) important,” he […]
