CJ: Rupali Ghadge SAFFRONART CLOSED its exciting Autumn Online Auction of Contemporary Indian Art, registering a total sale value of approximately Rs 29 crores (US $7.2 million), about 72 per cent in excess of the low estimate. Hosted on Saffronart’s new technology platform which serves up an innovative and secure user interface, this sale featured […]
By Susan Moore Contemporary art is one of the world’s great resources. It can be found almost anywhere and in potentially limitless supply. Hitherto unknown territory is being mapped and emerging talent tapped by eager prospectors.Innovative art fairs, particularly Art Basel, began offering an international platform for galleries from far-flung corners of the globe in […]
Business Standard – Mumbai,Maharashtra,India Some emails can have a calming and salutary effect. An old journalist friend wrote from London this week: “Trying to put together a piece on the coming crash in the contemporary art market here. The received wisdom is that Indian and Chinese buyers will ride to the rescue. Did you see […]
An Indian home for contemporary artThe art that Anupam Poddar and his mother have collected will be exhibited in a new space in what will be, in effect, India’s first contemporary art museum. Somini Sengupta in the New York Times: New Delhi: Anupam Poddar had a living room once. These days the sofa is shoved […]
By Le-Min Lim Bloomberg – A Qing Dynasty imperial scroll that shows China’s Emperor Qianlong leading 16,000 troops may fetch more than HK$80 million ($10.2 million) in Hong Kong, said auction house Sotheby’s. The 15.5-meter Dayue Tu is the third of four handscrolls commissioned by Qianlong (reign: 1735-1796) in 1746 to show his military might, […]
By Scott Reyburn Damien Hirst is to open a shop next to Sotheby’s in London’s New Bond Street, the artist’s publishing company, Other Criteria, said tonight in an e-mailed statement.The announcement comes three weeks before Sotheby’s holds its “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” auction of new Hirst works. The 223-lot sale, to be held on […]
Minna Kumar Investing in an art fund is a way to become involved in the world of art without actually spending large sums of money on one particular art object and at the same time reap the benefits of an appreciating art market. However, one has to be careful about such investments. The fund must […]
New Delhi, Aug 26 – The works of Damien Hirst, leading British contemporary artist and one of the most expensive, are set to be unveiled here Aug 27. But they may come as shock to Indian art lovers, who are just waking up to the aesthetics of contemporary and installation art.The highlights of the two-day […]
ASIANAGE Aug. 24: The India Art Summit 2008 ended on a sad note here on Sunday as a group of alleged VHP activists ransacked M.F. Husain’s exhibition in New Delhi. However, the organisers of the art summit were happy that the fair was able to draw huge crowds, transact brisk commerce and thrash out issues […]
Vandana Kalra Auction houses and galleries from the West talk about the Indophilia that has gripped them While Arun Vadehra will tell you how it took him five years to convince Christie’s to hold an auction of Indian works in the early 1990s, Anjolie Ela Menon will recall with a grimace her interaction with European […]
