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By Vinay Seth Are you aware that there exists an art gallery exclusively dedicated to children in the southern part of the country, Hyderabad? Yes, The Children’s Fine Arts Gallery is located right next to the Daira Center for Arts & Culture in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. They organise an annual Children’s Arts Festival, and this […]
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By Vinay Seth Back-to-back schedule: A lucky coincidence for Delhi art lovers! Anahita Taneja, Director of Shrine Empire Gallery, informed me that the Delhi Art Week and the Delhi Contemporary Art Week being back-to-back affairs this year was a lucky coincidence. “Bikaner House needed to be booked months in advance, and we had no idea
By Vinay Seth I met Manmeet Kaur Walia, the curator of the exhibition ‘Masterly Manoeuvring: Lalu Prasad Shaw’, at the show\’s preview on the evening of 20th July. The retrospective is being held by Gallerie Splash, based in Gurugram. Though very busy attending the guests, Manmeet was kind enough to lend me her time and
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On Women\’s Day (March 8, 2022), Abir Pothi lists out some formidable Indian women artists — and mind you, this is just the tip of the iceberg Amrita Sher-Gil The incredibly famous Hungarian-Indian painter is still breaking records with her art work, over eight decades after she passed away at the age of just 28.
For Valentine\’s Day, Abir Pothi compiles some artworks from around the globe and India, that manifest love in its varied, many, fascinating forms Probably the first thing that comes to mind when one speaks of a romantic artwork is The Kiss (Der Kuss in German) painted between 1907 and 1908 by Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav
An inside report by Georgina Maddox of the Barbil Art Project Rûpa-loka: Incarnation of Ideas in Odisha, conceptualized by Jagannath Panda and organized by the Utsha and Arya Foundation Art can be an amazing uniting force in the world. In the context of India, the demarcation between art and craft is really a post-colonial phenomenon
The sprawling museum has been years in the making and is touted as just the thing to catapult HK into the cultural big leagues of the art world — but the mainland\’s new national security law has long cast a pall over this vision As if the prolonged global crisis faced by varied institutions in
The much-touted M+ opens cautiously in Hong Kong — even as Beijing tightens its grip Read More »
A painting that almost sold for $1800 could potentially be valued at hundreds of millions, if authenticated as a genuine Old Masters painting in coming months There exists out there in the world of art a high-stakes game of ‘old masters hunting’. And in this constant tussle, a “sleeper” refers to a lost masterpiece that
Even in his eighties, in the last few years before the pandemic struck, Rajen Chaudhari — known by the simple moniker of Rajen through most of his artistic life — was enthusiastically weaving in his workshop, tucked away near Raipur Darwaja in the heart of Ahmedabad. His hands thrummed with energy and belied his
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Last week, debt-laden national carrier Air India was sold to Tata Sons, the country\’s oldest and largest conglomerate. Things came full circle as it was the Tata Group that had founded the airline in 1932 and then lost it to nationalisation in 1953 — and now in 2021, emerged as the winning bidder for India’s
That\’s surreal! (When Dalí created a custom objet d\’art for Air India in the 1960s) Read More »