MUMBAI: Viewing art is commonly thought of as a stodgy affair, requiring hushed tones, hors d’oeuvres and deep pockets. But on the once-grimy bylane walls off 16th road in Bandra, there’s art aplenty – one wall has a mesh of aquamarine tetrapods, another with a honeyed cat licking its paws above a fish pond, nearby […]
Crowd funding is not just the best way to get financial backing for new projects but also a way to find popularity amongst the public. So when the Kochi Muziris Biennale looked for a way to raise enough funds through the public to make India’s biggest contemporary art event a success, it’s no wonder that […]
V. S. Gaitonde’s Art Gets a Guggenheim Retrospective Sandhini Poddar, adjunct curator at the Guggenheim Museum, has organized a retrospective on the Indian modernist painter V. S. Gaitonde, that opens Friday. Credit Andrew Testa for The New York Times When Sandhini Poddar first saw the paintings of V. S. Gaitonde, their silence spoke loudly. Displayed […]
Display of works from the Al-Thani Collection. NEW YORK: A superb new exhibition ‘Treasures from India: Jewels from the Al-Thani Collection’ begins today, October 28, through January 25, 2015, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, here in New York. Finial from the throne of Tipu Sultan, Mysore, ca. 1790. Gold, inlaid with diamonds, rubies, and […]
Baroda painter Preyas Mehta is among several Indian artists invited for the Langkawi Art Biennale 2014, the first such event in Malaysia, that will be held from October 12 to 21. Other artists invited from India include Babita Das, Ashok Kumar, Ganesh Chandra Basu, and Puspita Ray. The event, organized by Art Malaysia […]
SummaryChristie’s first auction in Mumbai in 2013 was a phenomenal success, establishing the highest price for a work of art ever sold in India. Jehangir Sabavala’s The Green Cape, oil on canvas, painted in 1974, is likely to fetch between R1.2 crore and R1.8 crore.Jehangir Sabavala’s The Green Cape, oil on canvas, painted in […]
CHENNAI: The Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, US, has said it will return the nearly 1,000-year-old bronze Ganesha idol, which it bought from art thief Subhash Kapoor, to the Indian government. The museum purchased the idol from Kapoor in 2006 for nearly $245,000. Kapoor, now facing trial in Tamil Nadu, likely stole it from […]
New Delhi: A Mughal-era manuscript filled with Indian miniatures discovered locked up in a cupboard inside a rural England castle is now up for sale at Sotheby’s upcoming auction in London. Ancient Indian artifacts Also on offer at the auction titled ‘Art of Imperial India’ scheduled for 8th October is a group of albums containing […]
Three paintings made by renowned artist Ram Kumar, valued at around Rs. 4 crore each, have been stolen from his home in east Delhi’s Preet Vihar. The 90-year-old is one of the most important names in modern Indian art and a contemporary of other greats like MF Hussain, SH Raza and Tyeb Mehta. The stolen […]
