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The Art Market 2021 Report is out. This Art Basel and UBS survey has been prepared by Dr. Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics. The Pothi team brings you excerpts and overviews of this incisive report. This is part 2 of a six-part series. Your can read part 1 here After breaking Crypto Art records […]
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March 23, On this Day Robot roots On March 23, 1945, Czech painter, writer, and poet Josef Čapek met his end at the horrendous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He was the Czech artist who invented the word “robot”, which was introduced into literature via a science fiction novel by his brother, Karel Čapek. A painter of
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Jigna Gaudana: Innocence of childhood finds depiction Jigna Gaudana is frank that her childhood memories reflect in her pieces, speaking about emotions like loss, contemplation, anxiety, desire, and more, usually depicted in the lap (sometimes literally) of nature. However, on a deeper note, she adds that the images are also a symbolic reflection of her
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First of it kind hybrid biennale – digital and physical – will showcase collections from different museums. The Pothi team report The first Museum Biennale is started today in Patna, a day on which the Bihar Divas is celebrated as well. This mega-event at the Bihar Museum is the first of its kind in India.
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The Art Market 2021 Report is out. This Art Basel and UBS survey has been prepared by Dr. Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics. The Pothi team brings you excerpts and overviews of this incisive report. This is part 1 of a six-part series. As you would expect, the coronavirus pandemic has had a significant
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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
Holocaust art shows in Berlin, space art captures a galaxy Read More »
March 21, On This Day A chirp that changed the world It was 15 years ago today, on March 21, 2006, that social media microblogging site Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. It has over 500 million users today, and one of its most identifiable features is that
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\”I remember I wrote a letter to my father those days, and he sent me a money order of seven rupees.\”
From a small village to MSU, pages from the journey of Haku Shah Read More »
Ruby Jagrut tells how the abirspace.com and abirpothi.com ideas germinated during the lockdown and became a reality, despite many worries and obstacles I have always recognised myself as an artist who is passionate about natural dyes. The smell of dyes and jars full of tree barks and minerals in my studio is my familiar domain.
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The Pothi team profiles Elisa Nicolaci, whose dramatic sculptures are made of various fabrics, each representing itself as well as qualities like depth and light Sculptor Elisa Nicolaci was born in Palermo in 1977. She trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara. During her years at the Academy, she went through the traditional