Share:Photo: The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford PanARMENIAN.Net – The Deccan plateau of south-central India was home to a succession of highly cultured Muslim kingdoms with a rich artistic heritage. Under their patronage in the 16th and 17th centuries, foreign influences—notably from Iran, Turkey, eastern Africa, and Europe—combined with ancient and prevailing Indian traditions to create a […]
Share:Syed Haider Raza who recently turned 93 is the subject of a new book, which gives insight into the life and art of the grand old master of modern Indian art through the eyes of his friends and critics. “Yet Again,” containing nine new essays on Raza has been edited by friend, poet and former […]
Share: The Peabody Essex Museum announced on Friday that it is handing over an Indian artwork to the Department of Homeland Security as part of the government’s ongoing investigation into an alleged international art fraud enterprise. The work, a mid-19th century Tanjore portrait in the Salem museum’s collection, was purchased in 2006 from Subhash Kapoor, […]
Share: The second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, titled Whorled Explorations and curated by artist Jitish Kallat, is slated to open on December 12 at multiple venues in Kochi. The exhibition, featuring 95 artists from 30 countries, will be open to the public till March 29, 2015. The first edition of the Biennale in 2012 […]
Share: MUMBAI: Viewing art is commonly thought of as a stodgy affair, requiring hushed tones, hors d’oeuvres and deep pockets. But on the once-grimy bylane walls off 16th road in Bandra, there’s art aplenty – one wall has a mesh of aquamarine tetrapods, another with a honeyed cat licking its paws above a fish pond, […]
Share: Crowd funding is not just the best way to get financial backing for new projects but also a way to find popularity amongst the public. So when the Kochi Muziris Biennale looked for a way to raise enough funds through the public to make India’s biggest contemporary art event a success, it’s no wonder […]
Share: V. S. Gaitonde’s Art Gets a Guggenheim Retrospective Sandhini Poddar, adjunct curator at the Guggenheim Museum, has organized a retrospective on the Indian modernist painter V. S. Gaitonde, that opens Friday. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times When Sandhini Poddar first saw the paintings of V. S. Gaitonde, their silence spoke loudly. […]
Share:Display of works from the Al-Thani Collection. NEW YORK: A superb new exhibition ‘Treasures from India: Jewels from the Al-Thani Collection’ begins today, October 28, through January 25, 2015, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, here in New York. Finial from the throne of Tipu Sultan, Mysore, ca. 1790. Gold, inlaid with diamonds, rubies, and […]
Share:Baroda painter Preyas Mehta is among several Indian artists invited for the Langkawi Art Biennale 2014, the first such event in Malaysia, that will be held from October 12 to 21. Other artists invited from India include Babita Das, Ashok Kumar, Ganesh Chandra Basu, and Puspita Ray. The event, organized by Art Malaysia […]
