Indian Oil Corporation’s biennial art exhibition – The Canvas Code – will open here on October 24, officials said on Wednesday. The exhibition, an initiative to promote young artists, will showcase a wide array of paintings by over 90 artists from all over India at the Jehangir Art Gallery. The six-day event will be inaugurated by painter Bose Krishnamachari. IOC […]
MUMBAI, Oct. 16 (Yonhap) — Artists from South Korea and India are displaying their works at a joint exhibition in Mumbai, the capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The inaugural Mumbai Biennale, titled “Beyond the Frames,” opened at Sir JJ School of Art on Saturday for a six-day run, bringing together 120 South […]
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 […]
