Share:New Delhi: A Mughal-era manuscript filled with Indian miniatures discovered locked up in a cupboard inside a rural England castle is now up for sale at Sotheby’s upcoming auction in London. Ancient Indian artifacts Also on offer at the auction titled ‘Art of Imperial India’ scheduled for 8th October is a group of albums containing […]
Share:Monday, September 22, 2014 It’s not often one gets to see contemporary art from India in Hong Kong. However, an unique exhibition Kala Sutra is on view at the Visual Arts Centre in Hong Kong Park. Closing at 8pm today, the exhibition features 45 works by nine of India’s most celebrated masters across generations: Jogen […]
Share:What is the new buzz about the art auctions? asked a non-arty friend of mine last evening when he found me thumbing through a couple of auctions catalogues. What about them, I wondered? Considering the whole premise of an auction is that there should be more than one buyer for any work, who in turn […]
Share: The Swiss have learnt to pronounce Paresh Maity’s name almost as well as in his native Bengal. At Art Masters in St Moritz, Switzerland, his Mystic Abode installation of 8,000 temple bells has been placed outside the very snooty and old-world Badrutt’s Hotel and commands attention. Jayasri Burman’s sculpture of a goddess-like Dharitri with […]
Share:Tyeb Mehta The man who celebrated Mahishasura and torched a new high at Christie’s with Times of India’s Celebration. Celebration, like the Shantiniketan triptych done a decade earlier, drew inspiration from the Charak festival, the spring festival of the Santhals. However, unlike the Santiniketan triptych that juxtaposes life and death, the work focused on the […]
Share:Wealth advisers renowned for sponsoring art shows to attract clients are starting to use them to attract the attention of individuals from booming emerging markets. UK wealth manager Barclays Wealth has boosted this initiative by announcing a sponsorship deal with two contemporary Indian art exhibitions.Fresh from its sponsorship of tennis tournament the ATP World Tour […]
Share:In the 1990s there was virtually no secondary art market in India. Between 2000 and 2008, the price index of Contemporary Art multiplied by seven! While Anish KAPOOR and Subodh GUPTA are among the world’s fifteen top-selling Contemporary artists with auction revenues of €11.2m and €10.7m respectively, the third top-selling Indian artist, TV SANTOSH, had […]
Share: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. […]
Share:Source:- artculture.com China is embracing India, at least in art. A major contemporary Indian art exhibition this summer in Shanghai promises a cultural bridge between the two giants of Asia. The India Xianzai exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai reflects the growing cosmopolitan nature of the two countries, as well as their shared […]
Share: Puppet mistress: Hayv Kahraman’s ‘Toillete’ (2008) Photo: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THE THIRD LIN Art from the Middle East proves the strongest sector at the contemporary art fair in the Gulf.By Colin Gleadell It might have been a disaster, but in the end, the cultural energy of the Gulf ensured that Art Dubai, the […]
