Celebrating Sayed Haider Raza’s Nirantar at Vadehras
Soon to be 94, one of India’s leading modern masters, Sayed Haider Raza’s Nirantar opens this evening at Vadehras. Raza’s artistic path has brought him full circle and his works at Vadehras reflect how...
View ArticleDhoomimal Gallery to showcase the best of Jamini Roy, India’s first modern...
Nearly 80 odd paintings and drawings will unveil at the Dhoomimal Gallery next week. And Carved Contours will be a show that unravels the best of India’s first modern master Jamini Roy. The works...
View ArticleMaster Drawings at Sotheby’s
Drawings speak to us about artistic integrity and prowess – they are distinguished by their appealing subjects, exceptional state of preservation, and remarkably illustrious provenance. Sotheby’s New...
View ArticleIndia Art Fair 2016 : Delhi abuzz with art – Part I
The 2016 edition of the India Art Fair has the capital city all abuzz with galleries from all over the country gathering at DSIC Grounds to have a gala event that will last 3 days...
View ArticleRavi Varma, Shergill, Raza & Gaitonde will rub shoulders at Sotheby’s
Come March and Sotheby’s auction of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art will bring together sterling works by India’s Modernists.The sale will be led by a monumental work by Vasudeo S. Gaitonde....
View ArticleSubodh Gupta: ‘Invisible Reality’
From his first installation in 1996 , Subodh Gupta has moored into a world of manufacturing objects that have translated with ease into artefacts. His composite sculptures and steel and brass looking...
View ArticleSujata Bajaj Ganapati series at the Visual Arts Gallery
Sujata Bajaj is one of the first set of artists in the country who experimented with collages. Her artistic journey has been one of great visual and verbal splendour. From ceramics, fiberglass...
View ArticleExquisite miniatures at Bonhams
The world of miniatures is one that never ceases to fascinate. And when you see a suite of works that catch the discerning eye you know its worthy of scrutiny. Imagine looking at the image...
View ArticleLahiri Collection at Christies Asian Art Week
Seventy lots of the Lahiri Collection will be brought under the gavel at Christies Asian Art Week. It will begin with a moody monochromatic dry point etching on paper by the famed Rabindranath Tagore....
View ArticleFlashback Krishen Khanna’s vintage works at Vadehras
Step into Vadehras in Delhi’s Defence Colony and you will be silenced by Krishen Khanna’s output of paintings that exceed fifty-five years. The blue and scarlet and flesh toned Pieta is the piece de...
View ArticleExploring Bikash Bhattacharjee portraits at Akriti
The torrential rain in Delhi on Saturday evening became the invitation for the unveiling of Bikash Bhattacharjee’s portraits and drawings at the Akriti gallery in Lado Sarai. “ Human Face and Urban...
View ArticleSatish Gupta’s cesspool sonata
“There is no love of life without despair of life,” wrote Albert Camus about the darkest hours of human history. What happens when a young man is operated upon for a brain tumour? The success...
View ArticleHema Upadhyay and three Indian artists at Museum of Fine Art’s Boston show
Four Indian artists including Hema Upadhyay feature in a historic exhibition that looks at the city as a spectacle in a showing entitled Mega Cities Asia at MFA, Boston from April 3 to June 17,...
View ArticleVintage vitality at Sotheby’s photographs
Sotheby’s celebrates spring with an epic showing in New York on April 3, in its Photographs auction which includes work by many masters of the medium, and features a range of material from the 19th...
View ArticleReading abstract
Walking into the Visual Arts Gallery last night unveiled an epic showing of abstractions entitled Magnetic Forms-1V by Art Konsult from the Siddhartha Tagore collection. Quiet, low profile and far away...
View ArticleRole of a curator: India art practices
Away from the greed and business of profit mongering among private galleries the market for art is looking at a lacunae when it comes to younger artists. The trend of private galleries dealing mostly...
View ArticleCzar Rajeev Sethi’s art corridor at Mumbai’s T2
Last week I stumbled on the cultural czar Rajeev Sethi’s magnum opus at Mumbai’s international departure lounge T2 in what could be called an art corridor that fascinated for its medley of contemporary...
View ArticleClassical and modern art at Pundole’s
The moment Pundole’s announces an auction you know it will have blue chip works that belong to pedigree collectors. You know that there will be works that entice the eye and pull at wallet strings...
View ArticleRare fine jewels and watches at Saffronart spring sale
Last year’s Oscar awards the gorgeous Dylan Penn wore a pair of earrings made by an Indian jeweller called Narayan Jewellers. To have in the sale this pair of Forevermark diamond earrings worn by Dylan...
View ArticleShakespeare in an Indian classroom
The greatest gift CBSE gave its schools was to introduce Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in its syllabus for class 10. Of course One sonnet as well Seven Ages in class 9 kept the trinity of time...
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