Share: ASIANAGE Aug. 24: The India Art Summit 2008 ended on a sad note here on Sunday as a group of alleged VHP activists ransacked M.F. Husain’s exhibition in New Delhi. However, the organisers of the art summit were happy that the fair was able to draw huge crowds, transact brisk commerce and thrash out […]
Share:Vandana Kalra Auction houses and galleries from the West talk about the Indophilia that has gripped them While Arun Vadehra will tell you how it took him five years to convince Christie’s to hold an auction of Indian works in the early 1990s, Anjolie Ela Menon will recall with a grimace her interaction with European […]
Share:Sindhtoday.net New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) Indian art buyers and aficionados are developing an interest in solid three-dimensional art. The exhibits and the sales trend at the just concluded India Art Summit 2008 were proof that installation art and sculptures were acquiring a toehold in the mosaic of mainstream art. At the end of the […]
Share: by Shirley Moskow If you’re going to visit only one museum this summer, make it the Institute of Contemporary Art, and make it soon. The Anish Kapoor exhibition closes September 7. “Past, Present, and Future” is the first museum survey in the United States of the London-based artist’s sculpture in more than 15 years, […]
Share:artdaily NEW YORK.- After the spectacular success of Christie’s South Kensington sale on June 2008 which set numerous world auction records, this season Christie’s New York is pleased to announce the sale of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art on 16 September. The sale will offer major works from modern masters like Tyeb Mehta, Maqbool […]
Share:Neelam Raaj NEW DELHI: Indian artists have gone global and now, international auction houses are hoping desi buyers will too. In a bid to tempt Indian collectors, who have shown an inclination only for homebred artists till now, into buying western art, Sotheby’s is bringing highlights from its upcoming sale of Damien Hirst’s works to […]
Share:Ashoke Nag KOLKATA: Sotheby’s is uncorking Indian contemporary photography at its September auction in New York. The auction is projecting photography as the next big development on the Indian artistic horizon. Each photographic image is estimated in the range of $5,000-15,000. Among the lots is ‘Fragments of a Wedding Diary’, the 3rd edition of 5, […]
Share: 18 Aug 2008, 0247 hrs IST, Neelam Raaj,TNN NEW DELHI: Indian artists have gone global and now, international auction houses are hoping desi buyers will too. In a bid to tempt Indian collectors, who have shown an inclination only for homebred artists till now, into buying western art, Sotheby’s is bringing highlights from […]
Share:artdaily Keith Haring, Untitled, 1983, sumi ink on paper. 97.8 x 127 cm. © Estate of Keith Haring, New York. BUDAPEST.- Keith Haring, having died of AIDS at the age of 31, would be 50 years old in 2008. His anniversary is going to be celebrated with several exhibitions and events all over the world. […]
