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The art of the art thief: A look at Stéphane Breitwieser, one of the greatest art thieves of our time

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 […]

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Postcard from New York: A look into the vibrant art scene of the Big Apple

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

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Life, art and the personal in disruption: A conversation with artist Manisha Parekh

Manisha Parekh. Photograph by Ashok Ahuja

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

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When Georgia O\’Keeffe was presented to the world by a man who brought Modern art to America

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

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