Fashion fetish at Sotheby’s photographs
Sotheby’s London celebrates fashion fetish that goes back in time to an exclusive and exceptional selection of fashion photographs on 19 May 2016. Works by the mid-20th-century modern fashion...
View ArticleIconic American art at Sotheby’s
John Sargeant’s Poppies, Avery’s Nude, John Marin’s abstract expressionism and a host American artists will come under the hammer for Sotheby’s spring sale of American Art on 18 May 2016. From John...
View ArticleOpening up a village to the world ShopArt-ArtShop
Talk about art ventures in the hills, art projects that bring together indigenous tribes and artisans with contemporary artists and thinkers. Gunehar, Kangra District, HP, is the venue of a unique...
View ArticleTwo Gaitondes and a magical May at Christies
A magical May at Christies will unveil two historic Gaitondes rubbing shoulders with Bhupen Khakar and other Indian greats in contemporary art. Christie’s announces the South Asian Modern +...
View ArticleAI Weiwei creates cultural associations at Cycladic
Artist Ai Weiwei trots the globe in search of humanist art collaborations and juxtaposes his own signature into it. To say he protests against widespread violence and takes up kinship with the...
View ArticleArtists working in Windows-Hermes and Jinnie Seo
Each time I visited New York I would walk down Madison Avenue drinking in the shop windows and the Hermes Holiday windows would grab eyeballs. Hermes taught you how to pay attention to small motley...
View ArticleArtist Ram Kumar’s Gaitonde sells at Christies London
Gaitonde’s Untitled 1975 work belonging to Ram Kumar the veteran artist sold at Christies yesterday for $ 2,014,635 at the South Asian Modern +contemporary Art Auction. It sold for three times its...
View ArticleBhupen Khakhar’s debacle at Tate London
Interesting to read the debacle over the vitriolic review of Jonathan Jones in The Guardian. Let me say Jones is my role model-a critic of great insight and scholastic prowess. So when Jones insists...
View ArticleJapan’s best artist has hallucinations lives in an asylum and paints pumpkins
Imagine an artist of brilliance living in a psychiatric institution since 1977, creating works that reflect her obsessions, her desire to escape, her trauma-so you see endless works of dots, nets and...
View ArticleChristies celebrates 250 years of sculpture with Moore’s reclining figure
To look at a sculpture by Henry Moore is to be invited into an artistic abyss. To be drawn into an intriguing paradox of an evanescent ascension of delight and yet be grounded in the...
View ArticleJoan Rivers love for rescued dogs
Actor and celebrity Joan Rivers estate goes on auction at Christies New York on June 22, 2016 – but what is enticing is her lifelong devotion to the canine species. Mind you these were not...
View ArticleThe Kronos Collection: Paintings from India’s Rajput courts
A hundred masterful paintings—from the litany of Indian miniatures given as a promised gift by Steven M Kossak from his family’s Kronos Collections are on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in...
View ArticleJayahsree Chakravarty’s myriad moods of nature
Artist Jayashree Chakravarty works with a multi-faceted, ambiguous visual language teeming with detail and idiosyncrasies. This visual language is based on personal experiences and images from her...
View ArticleSubramanyan- the muralist and mentor
India has lost a mentor, a thinker, a teacher, a muralist, an artist who could infuse humour into his works and create contemporary fantasies that could remain like a reverie long after they were seen...
View ArticleMonsoon in Kerala: Red earth and pouring rain
Kerala photographer Uthaman Kadanchery’s post on my wall on Facebook reflected monsoon magic. It brought back memories of my music teacher Sudhir Khastgir who taught us Rabindra Sangeet at school, and...
View ArticleRivetting Rembrandts at Christie’s
To look at a drawing by the magnificent Rembrandt is to look at a work that has a unique candor reflecting the nuances of even a fine beard, or a curious look that defines an...
View ArticleMurals: War of the relics
Touchdown at the Indira Gandhi International Airport your eyes fall on the long panels of some artists and you wonder why the media call it murals. Is a long painting in horizontal domain with no...
View ArticleThe synthesis and symbolism of KG Subramanyan
When I met K.G. Subramanyan in 2005 he took a little time to answer my questions, acknowledge my presence. I felt something was wrong with me, but as time passed he softened and there ensued...
View ArticleKounteya’s Kolkata — The sainthood project in Rome
Kolkata born and internationally acclaimed photographer Kounteya Sinha has decided to turn the streets of Rome into an open air gallery to portray Kolkata – the City of Joy that gave Mother Teresa her...
View ArticleKochi Biennale to Yinchuan with Bose
In 2009 when he was invited to curate Arco Madrid artist curator said: Art is worthless if it cannot create a response. With Bombay Boys, Double Enders, National Highway, Arco Madrid, Kochi Biennale...
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