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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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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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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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Seattle museum nixes showcase of Big Tech employees’ art amid backlash; 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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Lourdes Grobet, Mexican artist and photographer who intimately chronicled the lives of traditional wrestlers, dies at 81

Born to a Swiss-Mexican family, Lourdes Grobet was one of Mexico’s most prolific artists, with a body of work spanning more than six decades. She died last week on 15th July, at the age of 81. Though her oeuvre was wide-ranging, she was best known for her photography projects that pushed boundaries through their intimacy

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Two giants of the art world passed away this month in their ripe years — one a digital art pioneer, the other an art philanthropist

Herbert Franke, scientist, writer, co-founder of Ars Electronica and one of the earliest digital artists to create abstract digital art, dies at 95  Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist, writer, and one of the important early computer artists, died on 16 July in Egling, Germany. Franke created computer graphics and early digital art, starting in the

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Documenta Head Resigns amid Scandal; and Two More Art Stories from Around the World

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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Amalgamation of art from diverse fields and in diverse mediums: Group exhibition at Espace

By Rajesh Kumar ‘Fleeting Expressions’, an exhibition that brought together artists from diverse graphic mediums and processes concludes today, 15th July. The show has been on view from 10 June at Gallery Espace, New Delhi. It included artworks in different forms, from the conventional watercolour on paper and oil on canvas to textiles – such

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