SAMILA WENIN Most of us are aware that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, not many truly understand one of the most important messages an image carries – the way a person, the photographer, sees the world.To open the long-awaited Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (Bacc), the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, the Office of […]
July 2008Melbourne Art Fair, Australia’s premier international visual arts event returns to the World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens, Melbourne from 30 July – 3 August 2008. Over 3,000 contemporary artworks including Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, Photography to Digital Media and Video, will be showcased under one roof at the 11th […]
Interview by Farah Nayeri July 23 (Bloomberg) — Anish Kapoor, the India-born contemporary sculptor, will get a stand-alone exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts in late 2009, RA Secretary and Chief Executive Charles Saumarez Smith said.The show of Kapoor’s work, filling all of the main-floor galleries, will look back at the evolution of the […]
London (PTI): Noted Indian artist M F Husain, who is in self-imposed exile following attacks by fundamentalists over his controversial art works, has said he would return home after finishing his current series of paintings in Dubai and London.“India is my country and nobody prevents me from returning to my country. I will return as […]
Ashoke Nag, ET Bureau KOLKATA: Original handmade prints created by famed artists are climbing on the price front. In a recent auction, Somnath Hore’s and Chittoprasad’s prints have fetched Rs 2 lakh-plus. This underlines the perception about the print medium, which was ignored a few years back, is now drawing closer attention. Mentionably, print prices […]
Shanaya LalkakaTuesday, July 22, 2008 23:59 IST With a quirky style, Jayesh Sachdev is one of the most innovative of the few pop artists in IndiaAt the age of 21, in the hopes of honing in on his artistic interests, Pune based Jayesh Sachdev set out to Singapore to pursue a course in visual communications. […]
JOSEPH BABCOCK Not many family albums are exhibited in the Tate Modern, but then again, Amrita Sher-Gil and her kin are no ordinary dynasty. Rather, an exceptional legacy is displayed in Amrita’s paintings, their creativity echoed alongside her father Umrao’s photography (a novel medium in the early 20th century) and nephew Vivan’s retouched images of […]
DNA – India Experts debate over an emerging trend where artistes are going overboard to grab attention Is it necessary to get gimmicky to make a point or convey a message? Does one need to go over the top or get ‘quite contrary’ to create an impact or stand out in the crowd?Recently, there was […]
By Bloomberg News Christie’s International said auction and private sales increased by 10% worldwide in the first half of 2008, driven by new buyers from the Middle East, Russia, and Asia. Christie’s sold $3.6 billion of art and collectibles over the six months, compared with $3.2 billion in the same period a year earlier, according […]
This is a spellbinding book, though it is not really about Vermeer. Timothy Brook is a professor of Chinese, and his subject is Dutch trade with China in the 17th century. Starting from details in five of Vermeer’s paintings, he takes readers on a series of brilliantly circuitous mystery tours that reveal the savagery on […]
