Ruby Jagrut In 2019, an artwork called ‘Comedian’, which featured a banana taped to a wall was all the rage. Created by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, the piece quickly went viral at Art Basel Miami Beach. Several versions of the piece eventually sold for over $100,000. This was the value of the banana or...
“Simply train a pair of hands in understanding how a said artist worked, and the returns can be exponential”, says Arvind Vijaymohan, chief executive officer of Artery India. As Indian art world blossoms to new heights of popularity, similar is the scenario in the market of ‘fakes’. It definitely slows down the trade in art...
Aparna Roy Baliga writes about the creative vibes that filled up the atmosphere for a group show organized in the memory of the late ceramic artist Jyostna Bhatt. ‘Chalo kam karie’ was a group show which came forth from the workshop remembering Jyotsna Bhatt. This exhibition was held in ‘The space studio’ in Vadodara. All...
Is an artist prone to suffer, at one time or the other? Is making art for art’s sake still a pertinent argument or has a lot less credit been given to ‘making money’ in the field of art? Santanu Borah pens his thoughts in this column for Abir Pothi One of the foremost voices in...
In this column, Santanu Borah takes us to the future of the art world and talks about Mike Winklemann, more popularly known as Beeple, who sold his NFT for millions. Read on to know why we think NFTs are going to rule 2022! As we say goodbye to the old year, most of us cannot...
In the wake of the global Pandemic the artworld discovered the power of the six-degrees-of-separation science that kept it afloat through troubled times. Georgina Maddox reports. When the COVID 19 Pandemic hit the globe, in December 2019, we perhaps did not envision how it would impact our entire existence. Life came to a grinding halt...
By drawing references to a host of creative masters, who saw art through their unique lens, as well as through his own experiences that were to impact his thoughts on creating art – and of finding meaning therein – Santanu Borah takes us through a fascinating journey that questions the activity, and possible futility, of...
Most of us differ in our opinions on authors, actors, and painters. What is it that attracts us to certain creative works (or people) and what is it that doesn’t. Santanu Borah discusses the psychology of appreciating art (or not!) in this column Let’s take a quick tour of an old puzzle. Have you considered...
Recounting a chance meeting with an artist in rural India, and by tracing the life of Charles Biederman, Santanu Borah discusses the assumptions that cloud the recognition of an “Artist” The romance that seems to be wedded to the idea of the long-suffering artist keeps away important knowledge about our visual and cultural life. Most...
In the international art world, one artist who is nothing short of mythical is Frida Kahlo. The anecdotes surrounding her, the mercurial relationship she had with her partner, Deigo Riviera, her incessant battle with various ailments (she caught polio at age six), her obsession to paint even when her hands didn’t permit (she painted with...