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Met to return 15 sculptures to India sold by trafficker Subhash Kapoor

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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Using Time as Material: The genre-bending durational performances of Nikhil Chopra

Digvijay Nikam  What kind of relationship does the work of art bear with the artist’s body? Is the latter only an agent to aesthetic creation where the locus of any transformation is the art work and not the body? The contemporary Indian artist Nikhil Chopra has tried to bridge this chasm by foregrounding the body …

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The Intersection of Futurism and Constructivism in Andre Courrèges’ Designs

Manjeera March 9, ON THIS DAY Luxury in clothes to me has no meaning. It belongs to the past. My problem is not rich embroidery, useless lavishness – it is to harmoniously resolve function problems – just like the engineer who designs a plane, like the man who conceives a car. There is no real …

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U.S. authorities return dozens of looted artifacts to Italy; Insights from art 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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Depp makes £3mn from paintings; pickle stuck to ceiling is $10,000 artwork; Met acquires Indian art earlier rejected over origins

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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Metropolitan Museum picks Frida Escobedo for $500m revamp of its Modern and Contemporary art wing

Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will oversee the renovation of the Modern and contemporary art wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Escobedo, who is best-known for designing the Serpentine Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens in 2018, was chosen from a pool of five renowned architecture firms, prevailing over David Chipperfield, Ensamble Studio, …

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