When a British curator celebrated Indian ethos at Metmuseum
Other than the beauty of the English language the British have had a slew of curators and critics who have loved India for its ancient history as well as its antiquity. This June on World...
View ArticleA June sale of Visionaries in Indian art
This June sale of Visionaries by Astaguru has a slew of works that compel the collector’s gaze in terms of eyeing collectibles belonging to a set of visionaries in the Indian contemporary art market...
View ArticleBharti Kher’s tokens of feminine identities at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London
Opening at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, on 22nd June, artist, and installation sculptor Bharti Kher’s Alchemies springs out of an album of reflections, references and experiences. Spanning more than...
View ArticleCelebrating J Sultan Ali at DAG in Delhi
Imagine an artist who taught at the prestigious Govt College of Art Madras , looked after exhibitions at Lalit Kala Akademi in later years and had a deep understanding of tribal communities, Hindu...
View ArticleGulam Mohammed Sheikh’s prints unfold stories
At Gallery Sumukha in Bangalore artist/curator N.Pushpamala creates a two-part retrospective of veteran Gulam Mohammed Sheikh’s printmaking years, and this exhibition spans 1956—2021. From woodcuts to...
View ArticleEquus explores the beauty of horses at Saffronart
Imagine an exhibition that helps fire Indian contemporary artists’ love for horses. Saffronart’s Equus is an exhibition that features important works by India’s famous artists exploring the portrayal...
View ArticleArchitectural vignettes and trees enchant at Espace
Gallery Espace brings alive artist Dilip Chobisa who uses the oldest tools in the world, graphite and pastels to create a magnificent medley of drawings that enchant the human gaze even as it creates...
View ArticleDAG’s Destination India is a double dip in nostalgia
The silence of spaces, the colour of the skies and the aura that permeates the many places in India in the leaves of antiquity. DAG’s Destination India in Delhi, is a treat for the senses.It brings...
View ArticleYusuf’s emblematic echoes at Aakriti Art in Kolkata
For the past 30 years, artist Yusuf the former Director Bharat Bhavan Bhopal, Bihar Museum Patna has been creating abstract configurations that swim deep into the abyss of calligraphic modernism within...
View ArticleSotheby’s unveils Indian Masters in Mumbai
The month of August and Sotheby’s celebrate Indian Modern Masters on 10th and 11th at Mumbai. Over £4 million (over 42 crores) of rare South Asian artworks, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, will...
View ArticleTriumph of Indian modern masters at TIFR Mumbai
Independence Day in India 1947, and my mind goes back to my parents telling me that everyone wanted to read the newspaper in Malayalam in Kerala ( Changanacherry and Champakulam) and in the vernacular...
View ArticleSundaram Tagore Gallery to unveil stirring strands of art at KIAF Seoul
KIAF Seoul is South Korea’s first international art fair which opened in 2002. Its rapid growth has seen Seoul emerge as a global art city, evolving to exceed market standards. It has become a...
View ArticleRemembering A Ramachandran on 90th birth anniversary
Achuthan Ramachandran Nair ,the colossus of the contemporary Indian art world left us on February 10th this year. His 90th birth anniversary falls on 29th August , and this is a good time to reminisce...
View ArticleDAG unveils Sohan Qadri at Frieze Seoul
Breath within the Soul at Frieze , Seoul ( 4th to 7th September) is DAG’s ode to the famed international abstractionist, author and Guru Sohan Qadri. In an offering of more than 20 works at the...
View ArticleSubodh Gupta’s Inner Garden at Arario, Seoul
Unveiled to enchanted crowds in the first week of September at Frieze Seoul 2024, is Subodh Gupta’s solo exhibition Inner Garden presented by the prestigious Arario Gallery, Seoul. Running from...
View ArticleAkar Prakar, Kolkata celebrates passages of printmakers
From the chromatic and textural complexity of Krishna Reddy to the monochromatic magic of Chiitaprosad and Rabindranath Tagore to modern day printmakers , Akar Prakar’s cachet of Past in Perspective (...
View ArticleAstaguru’s Manifest celebrates Indian art masters
Astaguru’s Manifest running 24th to 26th is a melange of Indian contemporary younger and older masters who have shaped the graph of art history over the past, post— Independence decades with their...
View ArticleChameli Ramachandran’s garden of botanical lyrics
Last month an unforgettable exhibition was Chameli Ramachandran’s still life studies of flowers and nature’s tensile terrain that opened at Vadehras in Delhi. The moment you set your eyes upon her...
View ArticlePundoles presents an archival symphony
77 Lots will go under the hammer at the Pundoles Fine Art Sale 17th October 2024 , and within this suite are an archival symphony of India’s finest Modern Masters.An unforgettable landscape by the...
View ArticleSaffronart unveils contemporary south asian sale
Saffronart’s contemporary south asian sale ( 21st – 22nd 0ctober ) of 55 lots raises a toast to some of the finest names in the present day contemporary art circuit. On the covetous cover...
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