A Digital Photograph from the series “Held Back”2006, By Dubai Artist Reem Al Ghaith Governments in the United Arab Emirates are spending billions of dollars in an ambitious, unprecedented effort to create cultural districts with world-class museums—along with a support system of creators, dealers, and collectors. But many Western art professionals wonder if this massive […]
Though this article was published on 19th January. Its important to be shared – Aashu Georgina Adam 19.1.09 Issue 198 The general economy and also the art economy is clearly headed for some choppy waters…” This is what mega-dealer Larry Gagosian told his staff in a tough-talking, if ungrammatical, memo published last November in Flash […]
Financial climate scares off sponsorsBrook Mason 30.1.09 GENEVA. The Swiss company Art Culture Studio has cancelled its sixth annual Moscow World Fine Art Fair, which had been scheduled for 25 May to 1 June at the Manege.Sixtine Crutchfield, Art Culture Studio’s general manager, blamed the financial and political climate for the decision, which was announced […]
Washington, Jan 28: Artists from India and the Indian diaspora are featured in “Shifting Shapes-Unstable Signs” – an exhibition of contemporary art from around the world at Yale University School of Art`s new gallery.Organised by School of Art dean Robert Storr and Jaret Vadera, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidate in the School of […]
Source: Business Standard How organised is the fake business in India? A lot of collectors will be asking themselves this in the wake of the Raza scandal that experts are already calling the Satyam of the art world. On Saturday evening, when 86-year-old, Paris-based artist SH Raza came to Dhoomimal Art Gallery in Delhi’s Connaught […]
A ground-breaking exhibition featuring emerging artists from South Asia will be launched at the new-look Herbert Art Gallery and Museum.Artists currently living in India and Pakistan will make their international debut at the venue in Through Other Eyes: Contemporary Art from South Asia at The Herbert in Jordan Well in the city centre from January […]
Georgina Adam 19.1.09 Issue 198 The general economy and also the art economy is clearly headed for some choppy waters…” This is what mega-dealer Larry Gagosian told his staff in a tough-talking, if ungrammatical, memo published last November in Flash Art, as the global financial meltdown continued to panic investors, the US recession was officially […]
Soource: PIB Press Release The new wing of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi (Ministry of Culture) was inaugurated here today by the UPA Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi. The Tourism and Culture Minister Smt. Ambika Soni presided over the inaugural function and Minister of State in her Ministry Smt. Kanti Singh was […]
By Georgina Adam The fashion-art overlap that was such a feature of the contemporary art boom has come to a screeching halt, at least chez Chanel, the French fashion house. The firm sunk a vast sum (millions of euros, said the French press; “no comment” said Chanel) into Mobile Art, a huge Zaha Hadid-designed futuristic […]
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) S.H. Raza, one of the great masters of Indian modern art, is contemplating legal action after he discovered 30 fake paintings bearing his name and forged signature on show at the Delhi-based Dhoomimal Gallery, one of the country’s oldest. ?We are in touch with a Supreme Court lawyer to discuss […]
