Share: “We Do Not Dream Alone,” the first Asia Society Triennial of contemporary art, is in search of a reason for being. You could find reasons for both enthusiasm and skepticism when Asia Society announced last year that it would present a triennial of contemporary art, centered on art from what the organizers called “Asia […]
Share:It’s the book art connoisseurs cannot get enough of—Court & Courtship features a collection of miniature paintings from erudite textile collector-couple, Praful and Shilpa Shah’s TAPI collection, and is a window into the bold, sensual representation in 16th-19th century art Red wine spills from a goblet. Krishna leans passionately into Radha, as he holds her from […]
Share:By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANSlife) Having gone virtual for many of their exhibitions and art-based interactions, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in the national capital has now reopened for visitors, who seem only too happy to be reconnecting with Indian master artists after months of the gallery being closed. Notably, all museums, […]
Share:Eminent contemporary Indian artist Anjum Singh passed away on Tuesday after losing a prolonged battle with cancer, art collector Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, said.She was 53. “Anjum Singh was a wonderful artist who passed away after a long but brave and courageous battle with cancer,” she told PTI. Born to renowned artists Arpita and […]
Share:By DR. TOM MACK Art museum presents ‘Visions of India’, How do modern artists cope with the weight of history? This is a challenge particularly applicable to painters and sculptors who hail from countries with well-established and universally recognized artistic legacies. How, for example, do French painters emerge from the shadow of their Impressionist and […]
Share:omewhere close to the year 2000, as an informal consultant, renowned art historian B.N. Goswami was going over the San Diego Museum of Arts’ holdings of Indian paintings, nearly all of which came from the collection of American billionaire Edwin Binney III. Among the things he saw was the manuscript of the Mysore Bhagvata, the […]
Share:In a dramatic Instagram post that resonated with the global art world, The Art Newspaper wrote: “When God closes a gallery door, [somewhere] He opens a browser window.” In another day and age, when nearly all forms of human activity would not have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic-related shutdown, feminists and gender experts would have spilled […]
Share:Review by Madelia Hickman Ring NEW YORK CITY – If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It was that sort of existential crisis facing organizers and participants of Asia Week 2020, which proceeded to take place March 12-19 despite the COVID-19 prompted […]
Share:The coronavirus outbreak may be keeping art collectors away from cities such as Hong Kong and Singapore, but it didn’t affect footfall at the India Art Fair (IAF) in New Delhi earlier this month.“I’m sure if people came here they would be very surprised,” said Indonesian collector Tom Tandio while standing in a bustling fair […]
