Source – ForbesEditor – Sarah Wolff ”Hanging Fire” introduces Pakistan’s vibrant contemporary art scene to America. There are certain themes one expects to see in an overview of contemporary Pakistani art, like commentaries on politics, politics or perhaps … politics. The last large-scale show I’d seen of Pakistani art, in Dubai last year, focused on […]
Source: timeoutmumbai Bodhi Art led the Indian art world to unimaginable heights but the economic slowdown has cast a shadow on the gallery’s future, writes Girish Shahane. Four down, two to go. Bodhi Art has closed its galleries in Delhi, Singapore, New York and Berlin. Its Kala Ghoda flagship appears on the verge of going […]
Source: guardian.co.uk Ever since Andy Warhol, the worlds of art and finance have been inseparable. On the eve of Tate Modern’s Pop Life exhibition, Sean O’Hagan visits five art superstars in their studios to find out how the market drives their creative process Damien Hirst in his studio in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Photograph: Karen Robinson Next […]
Published: Monday, 31 Aug 2009 | 2:22 PM ETBy: Shelly K. Schwartz,Special to CNBC.com If you’d added a few paintings to your portfolio over the last few years, instead of all those Lehman Brothers [LEHMQ 0.155 -0.0341 (-18.03%) ], AIG [AIG 36.00 -9.33 (-20.58%) ] and Citigroup [C 4.54 -0.46 (-9.2%) ] shares, your retirement […]
By Rama LakshmiWashington Post Foreign Service NEW DELHI — In the heady celebration of the boom in India’s contemporary art market in recent years, an iconic artist has been conspicuous by his absence. Maqbool Fida Husain is hailed by many as India’s Picasso, and the 94-year-old artist’s paintings are coveted at international auctions, but galleries […]
Source – CCTV The global financial crisis may have hit the art markets of New York and London, but according to experts in New Delhi, the Indian market is going strong. They’ve been attending the second exhibition of the India Art Summit. Even before the art summit opened formally, quite a few of the participating […]
Kishore Singh That Coimbatore-based Rajshree Pathy, who heads Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals, should be at the India Art Summit in the capital should be no surprise:. She is a well-known art collector, after all. But that she should be speaking – in the morning at Religare’s arts.i booth on sculptor Prithpal S Ladi, in the […]
Jitish Kallat, Dawn Chorus- 7, 2007. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2009. Jitish Kallat, Dawn Chorus- 7, 2007. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2009. Source – Artdaily.org New York Christies South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art sale will feature over 100 works from the leading 20th and 21st century artists from […]
By Tonya Turner LONG before television, newspapers and universities, artists around the world were unknowingly expressing themselves in similar ways.Cave paintings of animals and ancient fertility sculptures were created simultaneously in distant lands, showing remarkable similarities. Today, artists worldwide continue to be drawn to similar modes of practice, as shown in works to go on […]
Source – Economic Times You know times are hard when the usually circumspect representatives of the Indian art market speak out of their combined pains. Until recently,they struggled to accept the arrival of a slump in the market, ostrich-like even as world over bellwether auctions registered tepid bidding and pivotal art fairs saw poor attendance. […]
