‘Indian Highway’ presents art of transition, growth in India to world: Curators
July 26th, 2012 - 8:35 pm ICT by IANS
Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) An international travelling exhibition of Indian contemporary art in Beijing, "Indian Highway", in the news after a video clip on the 2002 Gujarat riots was ... Read more...
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Artists, thinkers outraged over crackdown on gay lensman’s work
March 28th, 2012 - 8:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) Progressive artists and members of the intelligentsia have expressed outrage over the forcible closure earlier this week of an exhibition of gay photographs by noted ... Read more...
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Indian avant garde art gets market tilt (Feature, With Images)
March 1st, 2012 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Avant garde art, traditionally known to set aesthetic trends away from the commercial drill, is reinventing itself as cutting edge contemporary art with a tilt ... Read more...
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Encounters with Husain, Pyne, Bawa…An art critic remembers (With Image)
February 19th, 2012 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) He came in a car, sold it and went away in a bicycle. The man was none other than late painter and maverick genius M.F. ... Read more...
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In Tagore’s footsteps: S.H. Raza fortune lights up Indian arts space (With Image)
February 16th, 2012 - 1:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) S.H. Raza, one of the greatest surviving names in Indian contemporary art, is walking in the footsteps of pioneering arts promoter Rabindranath Tagore -- using ... Read more...
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Market for antiquities still strong in India: Neville Tuli (With Images)
January 30th, 2012 - 9:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) The market for antiquities - old miniature art - is emerging as a strong force in the country, Neville Tuli, founder and chairman of the ... Read more...
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Presenting, ‘master’ Picasso with ‘fan’ Souza in East-West showcase (With Images)
December 19th, 2011 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) A western master of modern art and his illustrious Indian admirer, who virtually followed in his master's footsteps, have come together to connect with fans ... Read more...
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Husain fetches Rs.1.45 crore at art auction
November 6th, 2011 - 3:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 6 (IANS) An untitled composition of galloping horses by the late M.F. Husain, painted in acrylic pigments on canvas, sold for Rs.1.45 crore at an auction here.The ... Read more...
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Family, friends recall Husain, colossus of Indian art
September 17th, 2011 - 8:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 17 (IANS) Family, friends and associates relived memories of India's most popular face in contemporary and new media art, M.F. Husain, as the spotlight turned on his ... 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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Indian art 2.0: Rise of the Young Turks
September 8th, 2011 - 12:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) The order is shifting in the firmament of contemporary Indian art. The depleting tribe of senior artists -- following the demise of Jehangir Sabavala, M.F. ... Read more...
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Indian art is flavour of Paris spring-summer
June 26th, 2011 - 10:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) From the scroll painters of West Bengal, to docu-movies on celebrated contemporary art masters like M.F. Husain and S.H. Raza to sculptures by Indian-born British ... Read more...
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Tannishtha remembers Husain as a fearless artist
June 10th, 2011 - 5:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Dusky beauty Tannishtha Chatterjee had met legendary painter M.F. Husain once in London and she remembers him as a soft spoken and a fearless man.The "Road" ... 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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Tyeb Mehta, Souza lead auction stakes at Christie’s
May 26th, 2011 - 3:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The early masters of Indian contemporary art and the progressive group of artists like Tyeb Mehta, F.N. Souza and Akbar Padamsee are high on the ... Read more...
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Cities replacing countryside on new Indian artscape (With Images)
April 11th, 2011 - 1:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Cities, roads, people and lifestyles in the metros are edging the idyllic countryside out of the canvas of Indian contemporary art.Most artists in India begin ... Read more...
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Rs.1 mn prize for Indian contemporary art, courtesy Skoda
August 17th, 2010 - 6:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Art and automobile tied a happy knot when Skoda Auto India, the manufacturer of models like Fabia, Laura and Octavia, here Tuesday announced a Rs.1 million prize ... Read more...
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Private promoters take Indian art to new frontiers
May 26th, 2010 - 12:44 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Private art promoters are playing a big role in pushing Indian contemporary art beyond national frontiers, pitch-forking new artists into international limelight and connecting them ... Read more...
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Dali takes Bollywood kitsch artist to surreal realm (With Images)
April 22nd, 2010 - 9:33 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The distance between Bollywood kitsch art and Spanish master Salvador Dali is a light year, but for Gurgaon-based pop artist Baba Anand, the progression from ... Read more...
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Oz envoy to India visits Indian art stall at Asia exhibition in Brisbane
April 1st, 2010 - 8:19 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Apr.1 (ANI): The Australian High Commissioner to India, Mr Peter Varghese, today visited the Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia.The Trienale includes the work of ... Read more...
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Indians divided over Husain’s Qatari citizenship
March 9th, 2010 - 4:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Should Maqbool Fida Husain, who put the Indian contemporary art on the world map, have given up Indian citizenship? The artistic community is sharply divided.
While ... Read more...
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Largest Indian contemporary art exhibition opens in Austria
September 7th, 2009 - 4:29 pm ICT by IANS
By Mehru Jaffer
Vienna, Sep 7 (IANS) As the largest exhibition of contemporary Indian art to open in the Austrian capital in recent times, "Chalo! India" is certainly making visitors more and more ... Read more...
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Bikash Bhattacharya retrospective in Kolkata, Delhi
August 11th, 2009 - 1:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) More than 70 works by early master of Indian contemporary art Bikash Bhattacharya will be shown for the first time since his death in 2006 in a ... Read more...
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President condoles passing away of artist Tyeb Mehta
July 3rd, 2009 - 6:41 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil has condoled the passing away of the renowned artist Tyeb Mehta.In her condolence message, President Patil said, "Mehta was a celebrated artist ... Read more...
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Vice President condoles demise of Tyeb Mehta
July 3rd, 2009 - 3:09 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Vice President Hamid Ansari has deeply condoled the demise of Tyeb Mehta, renowned artist and recipient of Padma Bhushan.In his condolence message, Ansari said that a ... Read more...
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Noted artist Tyeb Mehta passes away
July 2nd, 2009 - 1:35 pm ICT by ANI
Mumbai, July 2 (ANI): Noted artist Tyeb Mehta passed away at his residence here on Thursday morning.Mehta was suffering from a heart ailment.The 83-year-old artist holds the record for the highest ... Read more...
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Indian art travels abroad this summer (Weekly Art Column, Rainbow Palette, With Images)
May 29th, 2009 - 10:21 am ICT by IANS
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Indian art is going places this summer. Contemporary artist Manish Pushkale is heading to Europe and says "it's vacation time".He will exhibit jointly with senior ... Read more...
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Downturn takes sheen off Indian art at Spanish fair
February 18th, 2009 - 1:40 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid (Spain), Feb 18 (IANS) Special invitee India's show at global art fair ARCO-Madrid 2009 was robbed of some of its lustre due to a wary market and a panorama section that ... Read more...
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Indian contemporary art market focus of Spanish art fair
February 8th, 2009 - 3:10 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) The economy may be struggling to cope with the slump in the market, but Indian art has managed to hold its own, especially on the global stage ... Read more...
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All artists must have copyrights on their works: fake-hit Raza (Interview)
January 19th, 2009 - 12:03 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) Syed Haider Raza, the master of Indian contemporary art, was deeply disappointed to find fake paintings being displayed at an exhibition of his early works in one ... Read more...
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French artists the horrors of the terror attack on Mumbai
December 19th, 2008 - 5:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Three French artists - Dezer, Miguel and Keflione - have recreated the horrors of the terror attack on Mumbai in colour in the busy Connaught Place in ... Read more...
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In colours: A tribute to scarred Mumbai
December 19th, 2008 - 1:15 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Three French artists - Dezer, Miguel and Keflione - have recreated the horrors of the terror attack on Mumbai in colour in the busy Connaught Place in ... Read more...
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Indian contemporary art finds new fans in Berlin
December 17th, 2008 - 9:05 am ICT by IANS
Berlin, Dec 17 (DPA) As a former Gestapo interrogation centre in Berlin, the sprawling building at number 90-91 Zimmerstrasse once played a chilling role in the city's history.Now the huge factory-sized premises ... Read more...
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India highlight of prestigious European art fair
November 13th, 2008 - 11:26 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 13 (IANS) Indian art will be the highlight of one of Europe's best-known contemporary art fairs - ARCO Madrid 2009, which will be held in February 2009 and showcase ... Read more...
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Sakti Burman returns to Delhi with sculptures
October 25th, 2008 - 11:05 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) One of the early masters of Indian contemporary art, Paris-based Sakti Burman, is back to the capital after three years with a new genre of work - ... Read more...
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