Share:Compiled by Astrid Lucas screengrab from www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk, where there is a virtual tour of the new Saatchi Gallery at Duke of York’s HQ Thanks to a partnership with the Phillips De Pury and Co auction firm, this spring Charles Saatchi will opena new free museum on King’s Road in the Duke of York’s HQ, London. […]
Share:Source:- artdaily.org Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Helène Vary, 1889, Gouache, 74,5 x 49 cm. Kunsthalle Bremen. Photo: © Lars Lohrisch / Kunsthalle Bremen. STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.- The exhibition devoted to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm next spring is the first comprehensive presentation of the French artist in Sweden for forty years. The exhibition will […]
Share:Source:- indiaenews.com Triveda Fine Arts Pvt Ltd’s third auction of Indian old and contemporary art here Feb 27, which is aimed at collecting funds for poor children’s education, will include masters as well as works from an art camp held in Jaipur with the Bhoruka Charitable Trust. The 100 odd lots have a few rare […]
Share:M.F. Husain’s The battle of Ganga and Yamuna Subhra Mazumdar As regards the choice of works from India, the attempt has been “to present juxtapositions of what’s happening on the art scene in India” A two-day public viewing of 24 art works, scheduled for the Christie’s South Asian Modern+Contemporary Art sale in New York on […]
Share:Georgina Maddox Richie Rich overhears that his millionaire dad was ‘wiped-out’ and so the poor little rich boy organises a charity auction to help. The Riches are appalled when they come home to see their prized Rembrandts and Picassos selling for as little as US $5 to the grotty neighbours. The business of a charity […]
Share:Jug Suraiya The canny Indian market player is now increasingly investing in art. Indian artists like M F Husain and Akbar Padamsee have, of course, long been commanding record prices at international art auctions and have established themselves as tried-and-tested blue-chip portfolio additions for high net worth individuals (HNIs). But now the smaller investor can […]
Share:Lauren Comiteau The Taliban’s destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001 was the most dramatic expression of their mission to obliterate all “idolatrous” images from Afghanistan’s pre-Islamic past. Along with the Buddhas, the Taliban destroyed 2,500 other cultural gems from Kabul’s National Museum of Afghanistan. But thanks to the heroic efforts of […]
Share:Claude Monet, (Paris, 1840 – 1926, Giverny), Poppies near Vétheuil, Oil on canvas. 71.5 x 90.5 cm. Painted around 1880. Source:- Artdaily.org ZURICH.- Swiss police announced they have found two of the four works stolen last week from the E. G. Bührle Collection. The works recovered are a Monet and a Van Gogh, estimated at […]
Share:Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Age may have etched itself in fine lines on the face of 86-year-old Syed Haider Raza, dubbed the living legend of Indian art, but the fire in him still smoulders. “Indian art is considered very seriously the world over and it is progressing in a very important way; […]
