Share:Source:- Artes Mundi Artes Mundi 3 exhibition opens next month on15 March 2008 at National Museum Cardiff. It features major works from the nine artists shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 3 Prize – Lida Abdul, Vasco Araújo, Mircea Cantor, Dalziel + Scullion, N.S. Harsha, Abdoulaye Konaté, Susan Norrie and Rosângela Rennó. In addition, the exhibition […]
Share:Source:- Art Daily Salvador Dali, Sentimental Colloquy, 1944, oil on canvas, 27.3 x 41 cm. Salvador Dali Museum, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Right Society, 2007. Collection of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida. ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg presents Dalí & Film, the first exhibition examining the profound […]
Share:Source: Art Daily Pablo Picasso, “Tete de Cheval” (1962). ZURICH.-Two Pablo Picasso paintings worth around $4.5 million were stolen from a museum in eastern Switzerland, according to Swiss authorities. The works are titled “Tete de Cheval” (1962) and “Verre et pichet” (1944) and were stolen this past Wednesday from a cultural center located in the […]
Share: When it comes to Chintan Upadhyay’s clones, there’s more where they came from Manju Sara Rajan “It’s not my baby,” says Chintan Upadhyay. “I function like a DJ, constantly putting things together,” says the artist. Looking around the 35-year-old’s western suburb studio (one of several) in Mumbai—an unremarkable apartment in an unremarkable far-flung neighbourhood—you’d […]
Share:Moumita Chakrabarti Earth Synergy: An Indo-Korean Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art, a joint venture of artists of the two culturally oriented countries, Korea and India, brought together 67 artists who presented more than 100 brilliant pieces of ceramic works. The seed for this was first sowed when Kristine Michael, a contemporary artist and co-curator of […]
Share:Georgina Maddox Am I Indian, Bihari, male, heterosexual? Or Indian, Gujarati, female, homosexual? Do I drop my labels or wear them with pride? How do public postures inform my work, will I one day be seen as an ‘international’ artist from a truly cosmopolitan milieu? Where do I fit on the grid of globo-local in […]
Share: Vandana KalraPosted online: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 1158 hrs Shanghai art collector Kong Ying trots the globe in search of “good art.” But, two years ago, when he was in India, he was unwilling to pick up any artwork. “The Indian art boom was too recent and risky,” he says from the comfort […]
Share: Sujeet RajanPosted online: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 2238 hrs Leading gallery calls off Amitava Das show after another says he has contract with themNEW YORK, FEBRUARY 9:An ugly legal spat between two high-profile Indian art galleries in Manhattan saw the cancelling of the opening of a much-touted solo show by Indian artist Amitava […]
Share:From The Economist print edition Offering guarantees gives auctioneers a vested interest in their auctions AFPROBERT BROOKS has firm views about his trade. “The minute an auction house moves away from simply being an intermediary between buyers and sellers and takes on the role of financier,” he says, “it starts to change its core character […]
Share: Ina Puri and Manorama Sharma (TOI Photo) 11 Feb 2008, 0000 hrs IST,TNN Ina Puri celebrated her ambitious project a book on Indian Art through the lens of veteran photographer Nemai Ghosh at a classy evening at the ITC Hotel, The Grand Central on Saturday. And a number of eminent people […]
