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World\’s largest painting sold! (And a billionaire setting up an NFT e-gallery)

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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Digital art’s finest hour: JPEG image sells for 5,037,451,650.00 INR

Along side Jeff Koons and David Hockney, an artist who does not paint takes his place. A graphic designer named Beeple who makes graphic stuff for big ticket popstars This must rate as the finest hour for digital art. A .jpeg image, which only exists as an electronic file, sold for a whopping $69.3 million …

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India’s art residencies: Held back by uncertainty in 2021

Getaways and collectives of artists have been severely limited by the Covid-19 pandemic, with some doubt still lingering in the air for now. Team Pothi does a round-up In the first week of March 2021, a handful of India’s most prominent pan-city galleries, including Experimenter, Nature Morte, Chemould Prescott Road and Vadehra Art Gallery, announced …

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