Wall flowers – Sotheby’s Florida
In a world sieged by terrorism we need the beauty and stillness of flowers. They comfort and soothe and mould our senses into the orbit of tenderness and love. Sotheby’s opens a new sale with...
View ArticleLaxman’s lines and subtle satire
Imagine an entire childhood of education in the art of satire at the hands of cartoonist RK Laxman. Reading Times of India was a family habit-an entity that was part and parcel of growing up....
View ArticleLess than 10 works can make a show – Sotheby’s Delhi
Yamini Mehta, Sotheby’s International Head of Indian and South Asian Art, has this penchant for standing head and shoulders above a crowd for her sense of graceful aesthetic and her gentle intellect....
View ArticleSotheby’s sets highest total with Impressionist sale in London
At Sotheby’s it was time uncork the champagne after a tumultuous evening that set records tumbling and collectors championing the beauty of Impressionist Modern and Surrealist masters. The historic art...
View ArticlePerenakan splendour at the National Museum in Delhi
A slice of the spectacular cross-cultural traditions of the Peranakan Chinese in Singapore and the surrounding region will be on display at a two-month-long exhibition, which gets underway at the...
View ArticleBeyond the black sun: Syed Haider Raza
At the Vadehras, Syed Haider Raza’s show Aarambh plays out like a raga-its nuances and notes finding harmonies within the realms of colours and tonalities and flowing between moody crags and...
View ArticleSotheby’s – French 17th and 18th century paintings
Sotheby’s, in association with Artcurial and the Cabinet Eric Turquin, will present the Louis Grandchamp des Raux collection – the most significant collection of French 17th and 18th century paintings...
View ArticleMithu Sen does what no one else did in Kerala
At the moment Mithu Sen is in New York getting ready to do a performance at the After Midnight opening at Queens Museum in New York. But she has created ripples in Kerala for her...
View ArticleIs this art? Seema Kohli Chai at Nehru Park, New Delhi
Seema Kohli as an artist needs no introduction. Canvasses, sculptures and installations have formed her sensibility. Her latest was an installation for the NDMC of the idea of Chai/Tea in its most...
View ArticleSubodh Gupta @ Art Basel: Not ritual, not spiritual, just a form
‘By simply walking down the street, by visiting bustling markets and houses of worship, one encounters constructions, assemblages and actions which to western eyes completely unaccustomed to such...
View ArticleMark Rothko at Christies in May
Art world aficionados will gather on May 13 at Christie’s to battle for the next magnificent Rothko to come to auction – a blazing red and black work ‘No. 36 (Black Stripe)’ painted in 1958, a...
View ArticleSanderson at IIC art gallery
At the India International Centre Gallery is an exhibition that would make Delhi’s ancestors grin with happiness. Here is a delightfully laid out aesthetic extravaganza of the historic haunts of Delhi...
View ArticleRothko and Van Gogh at Sotheby’s May auction
Sotheby’s announces the addition of two major works to its marquee May auctions in New York: Mark Rothko’s majestic Untitled (Yellow and Blue) from 1954, which boasts distinguished provenance including...
View ArticleAmrita Sher-Gil’s portrait at Christies
On 10th of June Christie’s London will offer a 1931 self-portrait by Amrita Sher-Gil, depicting one of India’s most important modern artists at the age of 18, recognised today as pioneer of Indian...
View ArticleVan Gogh’s Irises and Roses at the Met museum
In May 1889, after episodes of self-mutilation and hospitalization, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. There, in the last year before his death, he created almost 130...
View ArticleIndian emeralds – Christies Geneva
Christie’s Geneva are about to offer an outstanding pair of antique emerald bangles, each set with twenty-three graduated rectangular-cut emeralds, in a raised openwork scrolling gold mount. These were...
View ArticleSotheby’s to sail with White Calla Lily
Sotheby’s annual American art auction this May will have Georgia O’Keefe’s White Calla Lily set a new auction record when it sells at its high estimate ($12 million) it will surpass the second-highest...
View ArticleFive Quartets: Exploring contemporary Indian abstraction (Art Konsult Delhi)
It was after seeing Syed Haider Raza’s show at Vadehras that I kept thinking about abstraction and its many facets. Of course I also remembered the great MOMA show “Inventing Abstraction” and wondered...
View ArticleShergill, Tyeb Mehta, Gaitonde , Raza and Husain at Christies London
London King Street – To mark the 20th anniversary of Indian Modern and Contemporary Art sales at Christie’s, the upcoming South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art sale will take place on 10 June in...
View ArticleNational Museum celebrates Yoga Chakra
Art and the moods of political explorations in showcasing Indian traditions came together in the National Museum’s celebration of Yoga Chakra at the Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi. The National Museum...
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