Share:Anish Kapoor, the renowned artist known for his massive sculptures and abstract creations, has embarked on a new venture in Venice, Italy. In a former boat repair workshop near the Grand Canal, he has transformed the space into a vibrant painting studio. The studio, with its Corinthian columns and skylights, is adorned with towering canvases, […]
Share: Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Sheena Wagstaff with Reliance Foundation chairperson Nita Ambani (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) India’s richest woman with a $20 billion family fortune and a 27-story sky palace in India’s south Mumbai, billed as the world’s most expensive home for its $1 billion estimated cost – Nita Ambani […]
Share: Cor-Ten steel, earth and mixed media monumental artwork by British Indian Anish Kapoor at the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images) Associated Press Versailles, France: Vandals have spray-painted a controversial Anish Kapoor sculpture in the garden of the palace of Versailles outside Paris. The 70-meter (230-foot) red metal work named […]
Share:In the 1990s there was virtually no secondary art market in India. Between 2000 and 2008, the price index of Contemporary Art multiplied by seven! While Anish KAPOOR and Subodh GUPTA are among the world’s fifteen top-selling Contemporary artists with auction revenues of €11.2m and €10.7m respectively, the third top-selling Indian artist, TV SANTOSH, had […]
Share: NEW YORK, NY.- Memory (2008), a major new site-specific sculpture installation by leading international artist Anish Kapoor, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from October 21, 2009, to March 28, 2010 as part of the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim. Anish Kapoor: Memory is the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s […]
Share:July 24 (Bloomberg) — Seoul Auction Co. said it plans to offer more pop and contemporary artworks by Western painters such as Roy Lichtenstein at its Hong Kong sales to meet growing demand for such pieces by Asian clients. A stock-market rebound in cities such as Hong Kong and China, fueled by economic recovery, is […]
Share: Anish Kapoor (British, b. 1954), Mountain, aluminium, constructed from 120 water-jet cut 2 cm thick aluminium layers mounted on an internal structure 255 cm. high, 500 cm. wide, 281 cm. deep. Estimate: $1,800,000 – 2,600,000LONDON.- ‘Mountain’ by Turner Prize winning Anish Kapoor is to be sold at Bonhams next sale of modern contemporary Arab, […]
Share: by Shirley Moskow If you’re going to visit only one museum this summer, make it the Institute of Contemporary Art, and make it soon. The Anish Kapoor exhibition closes September 7. “Past, Present, and Future” is the first museum survey in the United States of the London-based artist’s sculpture in more than 15 years, […]
Share:Interview by Farah Nayeri July 23 (Bloomberg) — Anish Kapoor, the India-born contemporary sculptor, will get a stand-alone exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts in late 2009, RA Secretary and Chief Executive Charles Saumarez Smith said.The show of Kapoor’s work, filling all of the main-floor galleries, will look back at the evolution of the […]
