After flooring the buyers at Christie’s auction, his work now fetches great price in online auction Tyeb Mehta continues to rock the international art market. After the highest price his untitled work of a rickshaw puller fetched at Christie’s summer auction on 9 June, another untitled work by him fetched a high price in online […]
by Shuddhabrata Sengupta on http://kafila.org Like possibly several other children growing up in the kind of lower-middle class metropolitan households that attempted to reconcile their aspirations towards culture with their frugal habits in the 1970s and1980s in Delhi, my first introduction to the art of our time was the framed print of a Husain painting. […]
Source: Times of India Concept is driving contemporary Indian art to probe new frontiers beyond the conventional formats. “There is a new interest in conceptual discourse in art in India. The thought processes going into a work of art is much more serious and theoretical now because India is functioning in the global realm,” curator […]
Source: News OneNew Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The early masters of Indian contemporary art and the progressive group of artists like Tyeb Mehta, F.N. Souza and Akbar Padamsee are high on the auction stakes at the Christie’s sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art in London June 9. The most significant work which will […]
New Delhi: Moving ahead from the age-old debate of whether photography can be termed as ‘art’ at all and the photographer, an ‘artist’, photography has found its rightful place in the dominant perception of today’s contemporary art scenario. In an era of fast paced ‘digital’ innovation with an ever increasing focus on technologically advanced equipment […]
Source: Artprice The art market recovered its momentum in the first half of 2010: + 71% in auction revenue from Fine Art alone! This fact has been quickly seized by the auction houses who are now predicting annual growth in 3 figures in order to reassure a still hesitant market.In line with this market trend, […]
Last fall, after the London contemporary-art auctions were surprisingly upbeat and were followed by lively auctions of Impressionist and modern art in New York, a dealer told me that the sales went so well because “everybody got tired of being depressed and started spending money to feel good again.” How good is the feeling in […]
New Delhi: Trained under the able guidance of artist Kanchan Chander; school student Nehmat Mongia, college student Pallav Chander, teacher Anita Kumar and homemaker Guneet Kumar exhibit their recent artworks for the first time in The Dawn; a group exhibition of more than 80 paintings & drawings from April 1, 2010 to April 4, 2010 […]
New Delhi: The Ministry of Culture, Government of India & National Gallery of Modern Art celebrate Indo-Russian Cultural Relations by mounting a special exhibition titled “Nicholas Roerich: An Eternal Quest” at Jaipur House, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, that will be on view till April 11, 2010. The exhibition showcases 75 works taken […]
Despite big falls in the art market last year, where some prices fell by 40%, the last two years has never been so good for some artists and the owners of their works, according to Artprice, a research provider. Top place went to Damien Hirst, whose works sold for a total of €134.7m between June […]
