Newhouse collection at Christies NY
This May, Christie’s will present 11 extraordinary works from the esteemed Collection of S.I. Newhouse. The selection will be sold across Christie’s New York Evening Sales of Impressionist and Modern...
View ArticleAstaguru’s modern Indian art sale
Astaguru’s Modern Indian art auction seemed like a spring sale with a winning value of Rs 50 crores-it certainly speaks of a regressive market slowly climbing back. Held online on 27th-28th of March,...
View ArticleMapplethorpe at Christie’s
Christie’s Photographs Sale in New York tonight has a series of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Personally speaking I have always felt his floral still lifes, a series of up-close photographs of...
View ArticleOur Lady of Paris in flames
The news of the spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris caught in the flames of fire had an ominous message about it at the beginning of the Holy Week this morning. The symbolism...
View ArticleAmedeo Modigliani’s Tete at Christies
On May 13, Christie’s will have the immense privilege of offering Amedeo Modigliani’s limestone sculpture, Tête, carved circa 1911-1912, in its New York Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art...
View ArticleHenry Moore drawings at Christies
At the Christies Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale at New York on May 13 are two Henry Moore drawings that are a veritable delight in the lessons of art history and the deeper instincts...
View ArticleEnvironment Day: 2019
Environment Day falls on June 5th 2019 and its thematic concern this year is to protect/care for our environment and its species. Different countries will celebrate this day with an eye on sustainable...
View ArticleLord Krishna and raslila
Indian art is abundant with images of Lord Krishna and the Raslila. Janmashtami is a good time to dwell on some of the Raslila works in Indian miniature tradition. At the Christies Asian Art Sale...
View ArticleBhaktibhushan’s incomplete Bapu
At the Lalit Kala Akademi after you glimpse Ram Sutar’s monumental Gandhi’s you come across Bhaktibhushan De’s incomplete Gandhi created out of fibre glass, copper rods, bamboo and wood. This Garhi...
View ArticleA journey within: Olivia Fraser
Once in a blue moon you come across a book that is a witness to the colours of a beautiful new art bloom. The modernist monochromatic cover of Olivia Fraser’s The Journey Within emerges as...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Nabaneeta Dev Sen’s everyday idioms
I did not know Nabaneeta Dev Sen. But I knew her poetry, the few that have been translated by her brilliant daughter Nandana Dev Sen. I was deeply disappointed to read what her former husband...
View ArticleIndia’s indigenous modernist: Jyoti Bhatt
Jyoti Bhatt India’s indigenous modernist known for his photographs and intaglios turns 86 today. His show Manushya our Prakriti has just concluded at the epic Bihar Museum in Patna. Chief advisor to...
View ArticleProdosh Das Gupta’s drawings echo grace
It was at the Prodosh Das Gupta Retrospective ( Kumar Gallery, Delhi 2012 ) that I discovered his drawings that were preparatory studies to his sculptures. So when I was asked to curate his show at...
View ArticleEarth Day 2020
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” wrote Rachel Carson and it is this thought that...
View ArticleVictor Mirontschuk: Turmoil in New York
What happens when an award-winning architect decides to keep a date with history? He unravels images that talk to us in the conversations of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Architect and photographer...
View ArticleArt Basel 2020: Gladstone gallery’s grandeur
Lockdown brings to the world Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms as it creates a capsule of conversations that glide through time. And Gladstone Gallery amongst the finest epitomes of functioning in the...
View ArticleIndia’s modern masters at Christie’s epic online sales
As art spaces become virtual delights Christie’s Asian Art Week goes online, in its South Asian Modern plus Contemporary Art auction, opening for bidding today, 7 July and closing on 22 July. 64 works...
View ArticleAstaGuru to hold modern Indian art auction on 15-16 July
Building on the success of its No Reserve Online Auction of Modern Indian Art in June, AstaGuru, India’s premium auction house; will showcase an opulent facet of Indian Modernism through a...
View ArticleWhen a Japanese fish baron decides that Pundole’s Mumbai will auction some of...
What happens when a fish baron from Japan decides to collect contemporary Indian art and wants to sell some of his precious collection? He goes to a distinguished gallery in Mumbai, Pundoles, that has...
View ArticleJogen Chowdhury: Glenberra museum collection at Vadehras
In pursuit of a personal pattern of observations, fantasy filled reflections and recollections ; the textures of Jogen Chowdhury’s works begin to emerge in an exceptionally vivid suite of 40 works...
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