Share:By DR. TOM MACK Art museum presents ‘Visions of India’, How do modern artists cope with the weight of history? This is a challenge particularly applicable to painters and sculptors who hail from countries with well-established and universally recognized artistic legacies. How, for example, do French painters emerge from the shadow of their Impressionist and […]
Share:omewhere close to the year 2000, as an informal consultant, renowned art historian B.N. Goswami was going over the San Diego Museum of Arts’ holdings of Indian paintings, nearly all of which came from the collection of American billionaire Edwin Binney III. Among the things he saw was the manuscript of the Mysore Bhagvata, the […]
Share:In a dramatic Instagram post that resonated with the global art world, The Art Newspaper wrote: “When God closes a gallery door, [somewhere] He opens a browser window.” In another day and age, when nearly all forms of human activity would not have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic-related shutdown, feminists and gender experts would have spilled […]
Share:Review by Madelia Hickman Ring NEW YORK CITY – If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It was that sort of existential crisis facing organizers and participants of Asia Week 2020, which proceeded to take place March 12-19 despite the COVID-19 prompted […]
Share:Selected artworks from the post-Independence era that offer a glimpse into Indias contemporary art have been put up on view at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in the national capital. Coming from the NGMA gallery’s in-house collection which was in the reserve for about a year and a half, the works represent few […]
Share:The coronavirus outbreak may be keeping art collectors away from cities such as Hong Kong and Singapore, but it didn’t affect footfall at the India Art Fair (IAF) in New Delhi earlier this month.“I’m sure if people came here they would be very surprised,” said Indonesian collector Tom Tandio while standing in a bustling fair […]
Share: New Delhi: The inaugural Asia Society Triennial – a multi-venue festival in the United States devoted to celebrating Asian contemporary art, ideas, and innovation – will feature at least three Indian artists, it was announced. As per a partial list of artist commissions announced by the organisers, Delhi-based Vibha Galhotra, Vadodara-based Abir Karmakar and […]
Share:The project touches upon six art forms and engages with local artists from these art communities to curate a reflection of their version of what ‘goodness’ means to them. These six unique designs have been adorned on the Seagram’s 100 Pipers Limited Edition Pack for 2019 Scotch Whisky brand Seagram’s 100 Pipers has started a […]
Share:The #MeToo movement in the Indian art world asks the alpha male artist to step back and highlights an urgent need to dismantle existing notions of the female form, talent and power Picasso ‘Le Rêve’ (1932), the erotic content of which is evident in the woman’s face. It could have been the Indian […]
Share:Remembering the legacy of Bhupen Khakhar It’s a dismal truth that LGBT; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex people in India have to deal with too many social and legal difficulties while they yearn to breathe free air in their own country. Though there has been a drastic change of mindset among people especially […]
