tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68051562434243838142012-01-21T17:09:01.254ZIndian Art NewsNews & views on the Indian modern and contemporary art market.Deepak I. Shahdadpurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03462830679486981221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2857125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-46155560151758289222012-01-17T16:46:00.003Z2012-01-17T16:57:03.399Z2012-01-17T16:57:03.399ZKiran Chandra at Shrine Empirefields of grass...a mountain a cascading ‘charpai’blue skiesa man’s turban becomes his shroudThese are the elements which make up the installation in the space of Shrine Empire Gallery, Delhi. The gallery loses it’s pristine white walls and becomes an immersive environment where there is soil under your feet, the bluest of skies above and green fields around. In viewing the work, rhythms surface spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2012/01/kiran-chandra-at-shrine-empire.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-8069073890696950272012-01-13T18:36:00.001Z2012-01-13T18:38:00.426Z2012-01-13T18:38:00.426ZArt, architecture and the academy ART, ARCHITECTURE AND THE ACADEMYThe Art Highwaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13218033690385362250noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2012/01/art-architecture-and-academy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-40873725131451312372012-01-13T16:35:00.000Z2012-01-13T16:39:21.703Z2012-01-13T16:39:21.703Zhttp://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/01/13/art-market-datapoints-of-the-day-china-edition/Art market datapoints of the day, China editionPosted: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:20:15 +0000I suspect we’re still only in its early days, but there’s no doubt that we’re in a massive Chinese-art bubble right now. And for proof, all you need to do is look at the league table of the highest-grossing artists of 2011.If you look at the artists who made the most money at auction in any given year, it’s The Art Highwaymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13218033690385362250noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2012/01/httpblogsreuterscomfelix.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-76311240367215236532011-12-25T21:32:00.013Z2011-12-28T21:55:07.745Z2011-12-28T21:55:07.745ZPAINTER VINOD DAVE AWARDED THE 2011 GOTTLIEB FELLOWSHIPVisual artist Vinod Dave has been awarded the 2011 Gottlieb Fellowship of the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Artist’s Fellowship Program. Also a recipient of numerous other prestigious awards, like Rockefeller 3rd Fund, Pollock-Krasner and NYFA to name a few, in the past, Vinod has been practicing visual art in a wide variety of mediums and has exhibited internationally including spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/painter-vinod-dave-awarded-2011.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-2195155831167953292011-12-14T17:02:00.003Z2011-12-14T17:04:23.955Z2011-12-14T17:04:23.955ZAnd the falchion passed through his neckLatitude 28 presents And the falchion passed through his neck - a group show curated by Jasmine Wahi featuring works by Anjali Bhargava, Chitra Ganesh, Divya Mehra, Hamra Abbas, Samira Abbassy, Shweta Bhattad and Sangeeta Sandrasegar who explore feminism in their works at Latitude 28, F 208, G/F, Lado Sarai, New Delhi from Dec 14, 2011 till January 15, 2012. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Phone: 011-spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/and-falchion-passed-through-his-neck.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-76353709100780830752011-12-12T04:39:00.001Z2011-12-12T04:41:25.867Z2011-12-12T04:41:25.867ZHis sharp wit never needed a punchline by Vivek MenezesSource: LivemintAlmost until the very end, he was still in full creative flow: turning out inimitable, zesty drawings to burgeon a genuinely monumental legacy that began with a saucy can-can scene commissioned by Dosoo Karaka for The Current in 1953Panaji, Goa: One of India’s most influential artistic lives of the 20th century came to an end in Loutolim, Goa, on Sunday, when Mario de Miranda diedDeepak I. Shahdadpurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03462830679486981221noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/his-sharp-wit-never-needed-punchline-by.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-43229611258679177352011-12-12T04:32:00.002Z2011-12-12T04:36:35.369Z2011-12-12T04:36:35.369ZWe have a long way to go in art by PAVAN K. VARMASource: India TodayIn 2008, 11 of the world's 20 top-selling artists were Chinese.I was last week in Delhi for the launch of a book on 5,000 years of Indian art. As is the style of Pramod Kapoor and Roli Books, the book is lavishly produced, with countless glossy illustrations, and an informative text by the well- known art historian Sushma Bahl.Karan Singh, with his usual eloquence, unveiled theDeepak I. Shahdadpurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03462830679486981221noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/we-have-long-way-to-go-in-art-by-pavan.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-54320386364086304102011-12-11T20:48:00.002Z2011-12-11T20:51:23.471Z2011-12-11T20:51:23.471ZThe Travelling Hammer by Vandana KalraSource: Indian ExpressThe last two years have not been the best for Osian’s, but the founder and chairman of the art organisation, Neville Tuli, is hopeful that 2012 will be more fruitful. After his Rs 102.4 crore art fund collapsed in 2009, plunging him into enormous debt, Tuli intends to put behind the past and be, once again, a forerunner in the art mart. “The Osian’s art fund will soon be Deepak I. Shahdadpurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03462830679486981221noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/travelling-hammer-by-vandana-kalra.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-47654254453425332512011-12-11T03:07:00.006Z2011-12-11T19:45:01.310Z2011-12-11T19:45:01.310ZThe Graphic GoddessMother Victory, mixed-media on paper by Vinod DaveMahiṣāsuramardinī in the Modern Art WorldbyCALEB SIMMONS ModernArtAsiaThis paper examines six artists who have created Mahiṣāsuramardinī, images of the goddessDurgā slaying the buffalo-demon, including Maqbool Fida Husain, Bikash Bhattacharya, Tyeb Mehta, Vinod Dave, Roberto Custodio, and Arjuna. The paper focuses on the issues that arise when a spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/graphic-goddess.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-48936236221937554452011-12-08T05:48:00.001Z2011-12-08T05:50:16.399Z2011-12-08T05:50:16.399ZIndia Art Collective versus VIP Art Fair: Internet fair compareSource: Art Radar AsiaThe first India Art Collective online art fair, held from to 19 to 26 November 2011, has drawn to a close. Art Radar reviews the successes and the pitfalls of selling art online while also looking at how this newer initiative compares to 2011′s VIP Art Fair.Abhishek Hazra, 'The laws change after every seven feet thereby forcing you to pause and adapt yourself to the new lawsDeepak I. Shahdadpurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03462830679486981221noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/india-art-collective-versus-vip-art.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-57311028504586813562011-12-08T03:48:00.002Z2011-12-08T03:54:24.679Z2011-12-08T03:54:24.679ZOsian Art Fund failure: Mr Tuli’s versionDS Comment: Unbelievable that any asset manager would even take these sort of risks with any type of illiquid assets with no dynamic market. Source: MoneylifeNeville Tuli, chief advisor of the fund, explained that many buyers, who had promised to buy art at preset prices in 2007-08 refused to pay those prices in 2009 when redemption demanded it. Besides, banks also refused to led to the fund, Deepak I. Shahdadpurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03462830679486981221noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/osian-art-fund-failure-mr-tulis-version.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-21076501221034482582011-12-05T19:41:00.000Z2011-12-05T19:43:21.389Z2011-12-05T19:43:21.389Z5 Dec 2011: Osian’s resurfaces, but creditors remain unpaidSource: MoneylifeNeville Tuli, chief advisor of Osian Art Fund has been evading questions regarding payments to creditors and unit-holders despite notices from SEBIOsian’s Art Fund is back with a new website. And this time it plans to hold an auction on 15th December in Delhi. It has also announced that its dream project, Osianama, will be completed next year. These announcements have irked many Deepak I. Shahdadpurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03462830679486981221noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/12/5-dec-2011-osians-resurfaces-but.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-88820865787717884162011-11-30T17:30:00.003Z2011-11-30T17:35:42.009Z2011-11-30T17:35:42.009ZART WORLD'S 100 POWER 2011Click HERE for Slide Showspiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/11/art-worlds-100-power-2011.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-9118613613311170242011-11-24T17:31:00.002Z2011-11-24T17:33:11.857Z2011-11-24T17:33:11.857ZAnupam SudLatitude 28 presents Anupam Sud’s solo showAt F-208, Old MB Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, 11.m. to 7 p.m.,from November 25 till December 9, 2011.One indirect consequence of the valorization of the exhibition worthy, finished artwork is that the viewing audience rarely gets to see the ideational phase of an artist’s working method; the tentative visual probing (which often takes months) before an spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/11/anupam-sud.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-3279449909371511772011-11-22T17:10:00.002Z2011-11-22T17:12:18.619Z2011-11-22T17:12:18.619ZCertificates of AuthenticityNew Delhi: KHOJ International Artists’ Association presents In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, a travelling exhibition curated by Susan Hapgood and Cornelia Lauf, that is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with texts by the curators Lorenzo Benedetti, Martha Buskirk, and Daniel McClean, till December 16, 2011 at Khoj Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi. There will spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/11/certificates-of-authenticity.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-7345572465776711752011-11-16T17:26:00.002Z2011-11-16T17:33:22.444Z2011-11-16T17:33:22.444ZIs India Becoming the World's Hub for Internet Art Commerce?Shane Ferro for ArtInfoIndia is a country of 1.2 billion people, and though the percentage of those people in the middle and upper classes is small, it's growing quickly. Now, a new group of art-minded investors is trying to lure some of that wealth toward the art market in India, via an Internet-based art fair, the India Art Collective. While many of India's newly wealthy are comfortable with spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/11/is-india-becoming-worlds-hub-for.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-22242352583527711442011-11-10T16:56:00.001Z2011-11-10T16:58:44.439Z2011-11-10T16:58:44.439ZRevisiting the PopularKanchan Chander is exhibiting a new body of work titled Revisiting The Popular at Art Positive, New Delhi from November 10 till December 03, 2011. Curated by Sushma Bahl, the show will include over sixty works including paintings on canvas and paper, mixed media works on inkjet and archival paper and sculptures.Mixed media – paper cuttings, sequins, swarovski, laces, appliqués, bindis, stickers, spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/11/revisiting-popular.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-67404118593694229352011-11-06T02:42:00.001Z2011-11-06T02:44:39.329Z2011-11-06T02:44:39.329ZYamuna as the MuseNew Delhi: As part of “Germany and India 2011-2012: Infinite Opportunities”, the City of Hamburg along with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi, and with the Govt. of NCT of Delhi, presents Yamuna – Elbe: Public.Art.Outreach project that will be held in the cities of Delhi and Hamburg. In Delhi, The Yamuna-Elbe art project will be held from November 9 till November 23, 2011 on site at spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/11/yamuna-as-muse.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-4990298549063357822011-11-03T13:06:00.002Z2011-11-03T13:08:15.493Z2011-11-03T13:08:15.493ZKhoj FundraiserNew Delhi: Forty leading contemporary artists from across India and South Asia have donated artworks for a unique fundraiser event by and for Khoj International Artists Association in New Delhi on November 6, 2011 at Gallery Nature Morte, Neeti Bagh, New Delhi from 5 p.m. onwards.Khoj is a non-profit art space which was founded fourteen years ago by a core group of artists and since then Khoj hasspiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/11/khoj-fundraiser.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-33573751378165950252011-10-26T13:58:00.003Z2011-10-26T13:59:34.898Z2011-10-26T13:59:34.898ZTibetan Artist Transports Twenty Tonnes of soil from Tibet to IndiaDharamshala: - The Tibetan contemporary artist Tenzing Rigdol has transported 20,000 kg of soil from Tibet to Dharamshala, northern India, to build a site-specific installation.Constructed as a raised platform, the installation Our People, Our Land allows people to stand and walk on Tibetan soil. A microphone is also provided for visitors to express their feelings.The work’s design was inspired spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/10/tibetan-artist-transports-twenty-tonnes.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-67956096023100226982011-10-22T15:32:00.001Z2011-10-22T15:35:13.868Z2011-10-22T15:35:13.868ZAUGMENTING PRACTICESNew Delhi: India Foundation for the Arts and KHOJ International Artists’ Association present AUGMENTING PRACTICES – three exhibitions curated by Rattanamol Singh Johal, Akansha Rastogi and Dr. Leon Tan, from November 3rd 2011 till November 10, 2011 at the KHOJ Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi.This is the second program in a series of projects that KHOJ has undertaken as the nodal spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/10/augmenting-practices.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-88723030039233854362011-10-12T17:36:00.002Z2011-10-12T17:39:19.614Z2011-10-12T17:39:19.614ZIN YOU IS THE ILLUSION OF EACH DAYLatitude 28 presents a group show titled “IN YOU IS THE ILLUSION OF EACH DAY”, which draws its title and thematics from a poem by Pablo Neruda, who understood our deep human need to feel intimately and inextricably connected to the world outside of each of us. Featuring new works by Dilip Chobisa, Neha Choksi, Han Bing, Pooja Iranna, Ranbir Kaleka, Malekeh Nayiny, Raqs Media Collective, Niyeti spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/10/in-you-is-illusion-of-each-day.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-23342010477711472742011-10-12T17:25:00.001Z2011-10-12T17:29:13.213Z2011-10-12T17:29:13.213ZMoods of DevotionArt Positive, a unit of Bajaj Capital Art House, hosts the sixth edition of its annual art show – titled ‘Devotion-Invocation’ - a group exhibition by 40 artists who explore the theme of devotion in a contemporary context, offering the viewers an aesthetic panorama of expressions that resonate around concepts ranging from the physical to the spiritual. Curated by Sushma Bahl, the exhibition will spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/10/art-positive-unit-of-bajaj-capital-art.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-62213836880267572011-10-05T13:22:00.004Z2011-10-05T13:30:11.649Z2011-10-05T13:30:11.649ZCity, Kaavad & Other WorksA solo exhibition by Gulammohammed Sheikh, his first in New Delhi since 2001, this major exhibition includes a number of works that are being exhibited for the first time in India, in addition to recent works. @ Rabindra Bhavan, 12-31 October, 2011.The show features Sheikh’s seminal piece Kaavad: Home, which premiered at the exhibition ‘Chalo India: A New Era of Indian Art’ at the Mori Art Museumspiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/10/city-kaavad-other-works.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6805156243424383814.post-44520333468754389062011-09-26T14:13:00.001Z2011-09-26T14:15:57.463Z2011-09-26T14:15:57.463ZIntimate ArchitecturesNew Delhi: Khoj Studios presents Intimate Architectures: Materials at Play - a show of art works exploring the relationship between material and space by Gabi Schillig (Germany) and Masooma Syed (Pakistan/India) that have been created during a month long residency at Khoj Studios. The work will be displayed at Khoj Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi from September 28 till October 8, 2011spiritualpantherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00850109157304640773noreply@blogger.com0http://www.indianartnews.com/2011/09/intimate-architectures.html