Our person in New York, Kaivana, takes you on a journey through the hottest art events and happenings in New York right now The Park Avenue Cubist: The new way of looking at Picasso and Braque’s legacy With picnic season in full swing another exhibition to check out near central park is ‘Park Avenue Cubists’...
Adversity is also a mother of art. The Pothi team brings to you some of the macabre and some solace in the form a beautiful farewell song. At first look, The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger seems like a regular painting of its time. But look at little closer, and the subtle macabre of...
Santanu Borah takes you through the “career” of Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole art because he liked art. Profit wasn’t his motive. But, whatever his motive was, art that’s not seen is like a tree that falls in a forest and nobody has seen it There are petty thieves, there are criminal masterminds and then there...
Here’s a bird’s-eye-view of the hottest art happenings. By Kaivana, our person in New York As Washington DC continues to firefight Covid 19 at various levels of politics, media and health services, New York, is slowly opening up to its vivid art events from Museum of Modern Arts to public spaces. This is significant proof...
Manisha Parekh talks to Santanu Borah about her art practice, and how a continual desire to invent keeps an artist in the thick of the action and contextually relevant. She also dwelt on disruption as a personal idea. This is part 2 of a four part series. You can read Part 1 here. Manisha Parekh...
The Pothi team looks at what disruption means in art and how it has affected the history of the world. This is Part 1 of a five-part series Let’s start at the beginning. Imagine an early human, who has just observed a big hunt. Maybe even taken part in it. Then the human decides to...
This is the day that brought the great artist Georgia O’Keeffe before the world. In 1917 Alfred Stieglitz opened the first one-person show of O’Keeffe’s work at 291 art gallery in New York. Modern Art came to America because of Stieglitz. It wasn’t a Rockefeller or a Guggenheim, but just a kid from Hoboken, New...
Santanu Borah recounts the story of an artist who overworked his piece because he didn’t know when the “love-making” with his canvas was over Some of the funniest people I have met in my life have been artists. While artists are given to many moments of melancholy, deep down you can often find a childlike...
The Art Market 2021 Report is out. This Art Basel and UBS survey has been prepared by Dr. Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics. The Pothi team brings you excerpts and overviews of this incisive report. This is the conclusion of the report. You can read the art market stories part 1 here, part 2...
The Art Market 2021 Report is out. This Art Basel and UBS survey has been prepared by Dr. Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics. The Pothi team brings you excerpts and overviews of this incisive report. This is part 5 of a six-part series. You can read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3...