Abirpothi

India’s only daily art newspaper

July 2022

UK’s richest artist will burn thousands of his works; murals empower India’s transgenders; and more from the world of art

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends […]

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Tyeb Mehta: A modernist Indian master whose powerful paintings minted their worth

July 26, On This Day A much-revered painter from the first post-colonial generation of artists in India, Tyeb Mehta was born on July 26, 1925, and had a prolific career over at least six decades. Also known as a sculptor and film maker, Mehta was part of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group, which comprised other

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Shuvaprasanna captures the faces of Mahabharata in a Chennai exhibition, New York restitutes stolen antiques to Italy, and two more stories from the Art world

Shuvaprasanna captures the faces of Mahabharata in a Chennai exhibition Kolkata-based artist Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharjee explores his fascination with the epic Mahabharata through his latest series of works, Faces: A Race from Epic, that are now displayed at Sarala’s Art World in Chennai. Born in Kolkata in 1947, he graduated from the Indian College of Arts

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Remembering Jane Frank, the American multidisciplinary artist, on her birthday

Jane Schenthal Frank, was an American multidisciplinary mixed media artist who enthralled the viewers with her spatial paintings and minimalist sculptures. She was also an illustrator and a textile artist and was born on this day, July 25, 1918. She studied with artists, Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg. An abstract expressionist who drew her inspirate

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Secret society in Ukraine creates art under occupation; art conservators knew early on about climate change; and more from the news

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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Sculpting a precarious balance into a lasting legacy: Alexander Calder was born today

July 22, On This Day A groundbreaking American sculptor known for his innovative ‘mobiles’ (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents), his static ‘stabiles’, and his monumental public sculptures, Alexander Calder was born on July 22, 1898 in Pennsylvania, USA. (Interestingly, his birthdate is a bit of a source of confusion, as his mother

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Google honours victim of school shooting by memorializing her drawing; Ibiza authorities seize a Picasso sketch worth more than $460,000; and one more Art story

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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Celebrating Garry Trudeau’s birthday: The first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer

Garretson Beekman Trudeau, popularly known as Garry Trudeau, was born on this day, July 21, 1948. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip. Doonesbury chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States

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