Shattered sales records have become standard fare in recent years, so something extraordinary was afoot when even industry veterans did a double take last month. Christie’s sold a Picasso in New York for $179.4 million – the highest price paid for a single work of art at auction. That heady news capped a furious two-week […]
Works by veteran artist V.S. Gaitonde that were sold during the recently-concluded auction of modern and contemporary South Asian art in London. Works by Indian masters sell for £13,70,000 at a recent auction. Modern and contemporary Indian art has had much success at auctions held overseas, with international buyers taking note of the talent and […]
One aspect of Indian artists who have lived and worked overseas is their concern with identity. S H Raza became the first Asian (or, more correctly, the first non-European) to win the prestigious critics award in Paris in 1956, paving the way for a successful career in France. During its early decades, collectors of his […]
Merely in its second edition, the Kochi Muziris Biennale has begun to reveal the impact of exhibiting art in public spaces, integrating the city and its people into a narrative that is less intimidating or exclusionary than art fairs or other expositions. No wonder the 56-edition-old Venice Biennale is among the most powerful of art […]
According to Knight Frank’s The Wealth Report 2015, “it is always possible to commission a new yacht, but nobody can paint another Monet or build a classic Ferrari” “Gold has lost its lustre. That’s the conclusion global asset managers are making as condominiums and contemporary art emerge as more attractive investments” – as reported in […]
Kathmandu: Aiming to strengthen their close cultural relations, India and Nepal today signed a MoU to promote cooperation in the field of art and culture. The MoU was signed between Nepal Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and New Delhi-based Lalit Kala Akademi as part of the Nepal-India Art Exchange Programme. The two academies will work […]
Photo: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford PanARMENIAN.Net – The Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a succession of highly cultured Muslim kingdoms with a rich artistic heritage. Under their patronage in the 16th and 17th centuries, foreign influences—notably from Iran, Turkey, eastern Africa, and Europe—combined with ancient and prevailing Indian traditions to create a […]
Syed Haider Raza who recently turned 93 is the subject of a new book, which gives insight into the life and art of the grand old master of modern Indian art through the eyes of his friends and critics. “Yet Again,” containing nine new essays on Raza has been edited by friend, poet and former […]
The Peabody Essex Museum announced on Friday that it is handing over an Indian artwork to the Department of Homeland Security as part of the government’s ongoing investigation into an alleged international art fraud enterprise. The work, a mid-19th century Tanjore portrait in the Salem museum’s collection, was purchased in 2006 from Subhash Kapoor, museum […]
The second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, titled Whorled Explorations and curated by artist Jitish Kallat, is slated to open on December 12 at multiple venues in Kochi. The exhibition, featuring 95 artists from 30 countries, will be open to the public till March 29, 2015. The first edition of the Biennale in 2012 was […]
