World of contemporary colours captured in India’s first art fiction (Lead) (With Images)
July 5th, 2012 - 3:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) First it was Geoff Dyer who spun the heady glamour of the Venice Biennale with the magic of the holy temple town of Varanasi into ... Read more...
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India’s first art fiction captures world of contemporary colours (With Images)
July 5th, 2012 - 1:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) Writer Geoff Dyer had spun the heady glamour of the Venice Biennale with the magic of the holy temple town of Varanasi into "Jeff in ... Read more...
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Designer outfit made from wine
June 11th, 2012 - 11:35 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 11 (IANS) Scientists have unveiled a collection of skin-tight garments fashioned from red wine, Daily Mail reported Monday.A team from the University of Western Australia added a bacteria ... Read more...
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India’s largest-ever steel installation at Delhi mall (With Images)
April 20th, 2012 - 8:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The diveristy of new media art in India added yet another feather to its cap with the official unveiling of "Line of Control", a monumental ... Read more...
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Jimmy Choo to work with Rob Pruitt
April 14th, 2012 - 3:08 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 14 (IANS) Designer Jimmy Choo is set to collaborate with New York-based visual artist Rob Pruitt on a new spring-summer 2013 range.His fashion house will join forces with ... Read more...
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Raza painting to be sold by Sotheby’s (With Image)
March 19th, 2012 - 4:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Leading Indian contemporary artist S.H. Raza's most significant work, "Village with Church", once owned by John D. Rockefeller III, will be auctioned at Sotheby's in ... Read more...
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Damien Hirst logs on to India with affordable prints (With Image)
January 28th, 2012 - 3:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) British contemporary artist Damien Hirst, a cult name in new art, has jumped the price barrier to reach out to the masses with prints of ... Read more...
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Modern Bengal on canvas: Calcutta Painters return to Delhi
December 16th, 2011 - 3:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Calcutta Painters - a group of 28 artists which has been trying to break free of the traditional language of the Bengal school of ... Read more...
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Taylor Swift & Adele amongst the big winners in the American music awards
November 21st, 2011 - 7:39 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Los Angeles, Nov 21 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Taylor Swift and Adele were the top winners on the night during the American Music Awards. The two singers picked three awards each but Swift had ... Read more...
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Chinese painting sold for over $23 mn
November 21st, 2011 - 5:40 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, Nov 21 (IANS) An oil painting by Chinese contemporary artist Wu Guanzhong has sold for 149.5 million yuan (about $23.6 million) at an auction held in Beijing.The painting titled ... Read more...
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Hopping from Germany to galaxy to Kashmir at Puja pandals
September 18th, 2011 - 11:10 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 18 (IANS) Hopping around Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata this year could take you on a tour of Germany, Kashmir and even planets and asteroids! With budgets ... Read more...
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Competitions, calendar release on Husain’s birth anniversary
September 16th, 2011 - 4:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) M.F. Husain's art and life were marked by a rare synthesis of cultures, colours, creative expression and controversies that sent him on an self-imposed exile, ... Read more...
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Artist Damien Hirst to attend India Art Fair
September 5th, 2011 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The fourth edition of India Art Fair, formerly known as the India Art Summit, Jan 25-29 will play host to top international contemporary artists like ... Read more...
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India evokes curiosity at Venice art exhibition
June 6th, 2011 - 6:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) India has started to make Venice curious. A small number of visitors is trickling into the India pavilion at the 54th edition of ... Read more...
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India’s first biennale in Kochi will provide artists a platform (With Image)
April 30th, 2011 - 12:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Around 65 artists from 45 countries will participate in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala in 2012 that is set to position Kochi as an "art-heritage ... Read more...
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London art fair to highlight Husain’s work
February 16th, 2011 - 6:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Leading Indian contemporary artist M.F. Husain's art will be the highlight of the 20/21 International Art Fair in London Feb 17-20.A six-foot abstract composition by Husain, known ... Read more...
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Geek goddess: Mona Lisa with moustache, gun and dog
February 1st, 2011 - 9:42 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Mona Lisa, the 16th century muse of Italian artist Leonardo Di ser Piero da Vinci, is fodder for neo-contemporary geek art even 500 years after ... Read more...
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Chris Brown to launch graffiti art movement
November 3rd, 2010 - 2:02 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 3 (IANS) R&B singer Chris Brown is adding graffiti to his list of accomplishments - he is reportedly planning to launch a new urban art movement.He has recently posted pictures ... Read more...
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M.F. Husain’s art gets bigger, crazier at 95
September 17th, 2010 - 12:28 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) His spirit refuses to cave in to age. India's tallest contemporary artist M.F. Husain turned 95 Friday, still on the job of making high art. ... Read more...
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Raza, Husain, Souza top grossers in online art auction
September 14th, 2010 - 2:25 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sept 13 (IANS) Early contemporary masters stormed back to the art auction market this week, steering the top-of-the chain price trends at the two-day Saffronart's autumn online auction that made ... Read more...
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Katy Perry’s Racy Album Cover For ‘Teenage Dream’ Grabs Eyeballs
July 23rd, 2010 - 7:42 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
July 23, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The American singer-songwriter Katy Perry unveiled the cover of her upcoming album "Teenage Dream" on last Wednesday where the singer featured topless! The photo was captured ... Read more...
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Katy Perry goes nude for album cover
July 22nd, 2010 - 2:00 pm ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, July 22 (IANS) Singer Katy Perry has gone topless for the cover of her new music album "Teenage Drama" and describes her picture as "gorgeous".
Captured by contemporary artist Will ... Read more...
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Anjolie Ela Menon’s biography released as she turns 70
July 16th, 2010 - 11:28 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) A day before her 70th birthday, a pictorial biography of leading Indian contemporary artist Anjolie Ela Menon covering 55 years of her career was released by ... Read more...
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Will devote more time to art in public spaces: Anjolie Ela Menon (Interview) (With Images)
July 1st, 2010 - 12:31 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) The last six decades have been a quest for new metaphors for India's leading contemporary artist Anjolie Ela Menon who says she intends to devote ... Read more...
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Czechs Protest Against Michael Jackson Statue In Prague
June 30th, 2010 - 8:17 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
June 30, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson still remains shadowed in controversy even after a year of his death. Controversies were an integral part ... Read more...
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Sabavala sets price record at Saffronart art summer sale
June 21st, 2010 - 7:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) Eighty-eight-year-old artist Jahangir Sabavala, one of the early modern masters, set a new price record for his work, "The Casuarina Line 1" at Rs.1.7 crore ($374,900) at ... Read more...
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Sotheby’s to auction Bharti Kher’s iconic elephant
May 24th, 2010 - 7:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) British auction house Sotheby's will June 28 offer on sale leading Indian contemporary artist Bharti Kher's sculpture "The Skin Speaks a Language of Its Own". The much ... Read more...
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Painter Paresh Maity enters world of movies (With Images)
March 15th, 2010 - 12:59 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) Leading contemporary artist Paresh Maity has made his screen debut as a filmmaker with an 18-minute landscape docu-feature "The Mystic Melody: A Day in the Golden Desert".
The ... Read more...
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Chinese artist fights concrete with erotic art (With Image)
March 14th, 2010 - 10:40 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, March 14 (IANS) Erotic art with a social message literally hit the Indian streets when leading Chinese performance artist Han Bing performed "Dreams of Lost Homes" - a ... Read more...
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A gift for Sakti Burman fans (With Images)
March 3rd, 2010 - 1:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) It is art for the masses with an exclusive tag. Veteran Paris-based contemporary artist Sakti Burman has touched base with young art lovers in the country with ... Read more...
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I’ve gone back to childhood in Lahore: Artist Krishen Khanna (Interview, With Images)
January 11th, 2010 - 10:15 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) In his new series of works, leading Indian contemporary artist Krishen Khanna has travelled back in time to his days in pre-partition Lahore, which ... Read more...
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Artist Sarabjeet Singh passes away
August 28th, 2009 - 6:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Artist Sarabjeet Singh, known for his paintings of mountains and topographical drawings of the Himalayas, passed away Friday morning after a brief illness.
The artist, who ... Read more...
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Girl with Husain’s brush and mature strokes (Weekly art column, Rainbow Palette, With Images)
June 26th, 2009 - 2:10 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) Eleena Banik, a Kolkata-based contemporary artist is often dubbed the "girl with Husain's brush".Her world changed one day in 1998 when M.F. Husain came ... Read more...
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War, life and colours in a visual canvas (Weekly Art Column, Rainbow Palette, With Images)
March 6th, 2009 - 12:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) Contemporary artist Praneet Soi's figure studies are inspired by the horrors of the 9/11 terrorist attack, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, fundamentalism, and the problems of immigration ... Read more...
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Jordin Sparks pleased with virgin pledge but finds being role model difficult
November 25th, 2008 - 6:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 25 (ANI): American pop/R&B singer Jordin Sparks has no qualms about making a pledge to stay a virgin until her wedding night, but she does find being considered a ... Read more...
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