Ceramics, long relegated to a lower status in the world of art, are gaining hard-earned ground at India’s first ceramics triennale Earthenware, in the Indian subcontinent, dates back many thousand years to the Indus Valley civilisation. So abundant, ubiquitous and disposable has been the clay pot that rarely has it been considered to be anything […]
Remembering the legacy of Bhupen Khakhar It’s a dismal truth that LGBT; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex people in India have to deal with too many social and legal difficulties while they yearn to breathe free air in their own country. Though there has been a drastic change of mindset among people especially […]
The Ministry of Culture clarified Wednesday that the Centre zeroed in on NGMA to transfer the collection by way of donation by Air India since it is the only national institution with a mandate to collect and display Modern art. Opposition leaders have thrown their weight behind protests against the Centre’s plan to move the […]
Nalini Malani is creating animations on her iPad and sharing them on social media. In May, artist Nalini Malani was working on a 25-metre wall drawing for Castello Di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Rivoli, Italy, which will host a retrospective of her work later this year. In between work, whenever she took a […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For early birds at the National Folk Festival venue at the Kanakakunnu Palace grounds, there was something magical on offer on Friday. Pounding at the drums hanging from their necks, a bunch of folk artistes exhibited a stellar performance, careening along to the magnetic tempo of accompanying folk music. They were recreating tappeta gullu, […]
The report, titled ‘Visual Arts Industry: Painting the future’, talks about the art industry and highlights major trends, key drivers and challenges faced by the visual arts industry India’s art market is estimated to have been at around Rs14.6 billion (Rs1,460 crore) in 2017, a decline of 6% from the previous year as demonetisation and […]
The 2018 India Art Fair is set to showcase work by some of South Asia’s best contemporary female artists. Among them are Mithu Sen, whose paintings and installations explore desire, eroticism and sexuality; Tayeba Lipi, a multimedia artist who broaches hard-hitting topics like feminism and transgender rights; and Tanya Goel, who makes her own pigments […]
Younger artists are contemporising the forms by filtering them through their experiences of living in a city, and travelling to residencies and art fairs. “In the beginning, there were sky and water,” Japani Shyam, a Gond artist and Jangarh Singh Shyam’s daughter, said on the phone from Bhopal. One of the most popular creation […]
Summary: “I enjoy working with people who are not in the art world and showing them the numerous possibilities for art that exist. For those who walk into Jaipur’s 283-year-old Nahargarh Fort and marvel at its history, there is now another unexpected attraction: contemporary sculpture. The park’s curator Peter Nagy hopes the venue introduces contemporary […]
