Share:Source: Emirates Business 24/7 By Keith J Fernandez on Thursday, November 19, 2009 Beginning today, Abu Dhabi welcomes the world’s top artists, curators, art dealers and other garden variety aesthetes to the region’s newest art fair. Abu Dhabi Art, which runs until Sunday, is only the latest plank of the Emirate’s strategy to position itself […]
Share:By: Vinita Bharadwaj, For: thenational.ae Middle Eastern art auctions, such as this one at the Royal Mirage hotel in Dubai last Saturday, have begun to produce notably large sales. Pawan Singh / The National The ballroom in the Royal Mirage resort is full of people and canvases. Hanging on walls in the heart of this […]
Share:By: Angela Shah, For: thenational.ae The untitled painting by Laxman Shreshtha caught my eye. The placid greys of the background contrasted with the reds and oranges in the young girl’s scarf. In profile, she looked a bit wistful, as if she had just realised the loss of innocence required for adult life. And the price […]
Share:Source: americanexchange.com By Michael Stillman A recent unsold auction lot is something of a microcosm of various challenges facing the book trade today. It was a single item, though not an ordinary book. It was a set of Edward Curtis’ The North American Indian, consisting of 20 volumes of photographs and text captured by Curtis […]
Share: “Death of Vali; Rama and Lakshmana Wait Out the Monsoon,” From the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas (1532-1623). Jodhpur, c. 1775. Copyright Mehrangarh Museum Trust. WASHINGTON, DC.- The international tour of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery’s groundbreaking 2008 exhibition “Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur” will include an additional venue, the Art Gallery […]
Share:Washington, Oct 20 (IANS) In the first exhibition of Indian art at a major American museum in nearly 30 years, 16 finest examples of Indian art will be featured at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston next month.The exhibition, “Bharat Ratna! Jewels of Modern Indian Art”, from Nov 14 to Aug 22, 2010 […]
Share:source: artknowledgenews.com LOS ANGELES, CA. – The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents “Heroes and Villains: The Battle for Good in India’s Comics,” an exhibition comprised of fifty-three paintings, works on paper, and vintage comic books, on view from October 17, 2009 through February 7, 2010. The exhibition examines the legacy of India’s […]
Share:Ashoke Nag, ET BureauKOLKATA: It’s an Indian autumn in the art scene in London. India is all over the map this October. Starting from critically-acclaimed art showsby Indian artists, Indian art on offer at Sotheby’s and Indian art and galleries at the famed Frieze Art Fair, have all created a buzz around India in the […]
Share: By Judd Tully – Artinfo.com Courtesy Christie’s Martin Kippenberger’s “Paris Bar” (1991) went for £2,281,250 ($3,713,875), well above its £1.2 million high estimate, at Christie’s in London. LONDON—Piggy-backed to the gangbuster week of the Frieze art fair, the contemporary art sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury & Co. were satisfyingly peppy, indicating […]
Share:LUCIEN DE GUISE Krishna lifting Mount Govardhan. Gouache on paper, circa 1830 Yasoda churning butter. Gouache on paper, circa 1800 IT’S not just at Deepavali that the eyes of the world are on Indian culture. A week ago, it was the major auction houses that were bringing it out for admiration and purchase. Contemporary Indian […]
