Contemporary expressions in Raku
Gallerie Nvya’s Lumninous had the names Manisha Bhattacharya and Vineet Kacker. I was curious about this tribute to the late high priestess of raku Manisha. In the world of ceramics and raku no...
View Article10 best images from Indian art in 2016
The year has whizzed by like an arrow. Thinking back on exhibitions in the country and elsewhere- 10 images that remain in the memory of Indian art. 1) Subodh Gupta’s ‘Kerala Hut at Invisible Realities...
View ArticleChristies presents topographical paintings — Daniells in india
Christie’s London celebrates Classic Week, with an epic Topographical Pictures sale on 15 December that will feature a group of important paintings of India by Thomas and William Daniell. The...
View ArticleChristie’s presents topographical paintings – Daniels in India
Christie’s London celebrates Classic Week ,with an epic Topographical Pictures sale on 15 December that will feature a group of important paintings of India by Thomas and William Daniell. The Daniells...
View ArticleWhere is the Indian art mart headed?
Post demonetisation, the art world has been somewhat tepid. Lack of liquidity has hit hard and no one wants to discuss the ifs and buts and ins and outs. Two events stood above the rest....
View ArticleDokhra sculpture camp at Garhi studios
Last week 10 Dokhra sculptors from Chhatisgarh were invited to Garhi Studios in Delhi for an art camp. Lalit Kala Akademi’s new administrator the distinguished artist and critic Krishna Setty...
View ArticleLighting tips for art
April last year had a solo show of sculptures by Arun Pandit at the Lalit Kala Akademi Delhi. Lighting advisor and designer Amit Gupta of Vis a Vis spent an entire day putting the finishing...
View ArticleRothko and Rauschenberg: Two giants of Post-War American painting
Can you imagine a room filled with works by the two giants Rothko and Rauscenberg? Christies gives art lovers a walk that celebrates abtraction’s alchemy as it holds an epic showing that will travel...
View ArticleGerhard Richter’s Eisberg to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
Thought artist Gerhard Richter only created abstract works teeming with gripping colour? One of the finest landscape paintings of Gerhard Richter’s career will come to auction for the first time in...
View Article‘The Excavated Museum’ – Manav Gupta
Manav Gupta is truly a unique genius – the thinker and the visionary is hailed by critics as one of the most erudite and versatile contemporary artists today. After a hundred thousand footfalls at the...
View Article4 must see things at India Art Fair
The India Art Fair had an Art Projects exposition that spelt cohesion amidst a variety of mediums and installation ideations. Top of the lot was MOMA’s presentation of Reena Saini Kallat’s Woven...
View ArticleSaffronart warms winter with evening sale
Saffronart will warm winter with its first Evening Sale of the year on 16 February 2017 in Mumbai. The live auction will present the depth of Indian Modernism with works from modern masters such as...
View ArticleImpressionist and modern art at Christie’s
The Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 28 February will launch the 20th-century at Christie’s, a season of sales that takes place in London from February 28 to March 10, 2017. The auction...
View ArticleProgressives mentor Walter Langhammer
Who was Walter Langhammer? He was a key personality, as artist, critic and patron, responsible for encouraging and promoting the modern art movement in Bombay during the 1940’s. Walter Langhammer a...
View ArticlePicasso’s tomato plants at Sotheby’s
“The tomato plants are an earthy and decorative metaphor for the human need to survive and flourish” Painted Days Before the Liberation of Paris, Pablo Picasso’s Ripening Symbol of Resilience and Hope....
View ArticleRupin Thomas – Pursuit of solitude in Paris
Gallery 1 at the Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi morphed into an oasis of a travelogue in the suite of photographs of Paris (La Vie a Paris ) presented by Rupin Thomas, an economist who...
View ArticleCarved contours in wood
To look at a wooden sculpture is to go back to nature. A piece of wood can in the hands of a great sculptor become revelatory, resonant and full of rhythmic references. Spontaneous! Truthful!...
View ArticleAbstract artist Anil Athvayu
“ In 2011-when I did my MFA from College of Arts, Delhi, everyone was doing figurative. I was the only one doing abstract. I am unable to look at any form without breaking it up...
View ArticleClassical miniatures at Saffronart’s spring sale
Scenes that kindle the religiosity of the devotee, scenes that bring alive the beauty of the past, scenes that extol the earthly powers of usefulness in cows and the magnificence of Lord Krishna the...
View ArticleSunil Kumar Das: Fluid lines
Lado Sarai’s Aakriti Gallery came alive with the last show of the season in Sunil Kumar Das’ solo showing that revelled in the “purity of forms”. Vahanas was a welcome treat for art lovers because...
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