”Even as intellectuals, celebrities and art lovers continue to mourn the death of M.F. Husain, unidentified men here Friday destroyed the sand sculpture created by an Uttar Pradesh artist to pay tribute to the ‘Picasso of India’.R.K. Chitera, 26, a famous sand artist, was not allowed to complete Husain’s eight-ft-long... 

CONTEMPORARYMARKETERS Rajesh Punj reflects on contemporary art market based on candid talkwith Yamini Mehta of Christie’s and Simon de Pury of Phillips de Pury. when we speak there isn’t quite that melancholic air to our discussion that you might think. Instead Mehta is reassuringly poised and positively energized... 

Modern Art – were exhibited at San Diego Museum of Modern Art. The curators also included works of several other Indian artists who, evidently, were influenced by Bose. The next stop was Philadelphia Museum of Art, the home of the largest collection of works by Marcel Duchamp (more on it another time). Holland... 

“It is magical. Everytime I use a thick flat brush to mix oil paints of two different colours on my palate to create my own unique shade, my mood transforms. I lose myself in the elusive magic of the moment. It has taken me ten long years to rediscover this simple joy. And all credit to Chuck and Janis Lindley... 

Setting it’s hand on the pulse of emerging trends in the contemporary art scene Art Konsult opened its show “Future of the Museum Collection” at the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, showcasing the best of some of the most talented young artists today. Read More>> Art Bull presented a panel... 

The hayward Gallery aT The Southbank Centre, London, recently put on a survey show of artworks by TraceEmin (b.1963), one of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary artists. The show, titled ‘Love is what you want’, (Ma18-August 29, 2011) was curated by Cliff Lauson and Ralph Rugoff, DirectorHayward Gallery. It... 

Inventiveness In projectIng exhIbItIonspaces requires a very radical approach. Throughout history, concepts of time and space have often amused and inspired artists to look beyond the obvious. Both empty and cluttered spaces have a strong impact on our psyche but the feelings are distinct and relative. Experimenting... 

Art&Deal interviews Nidhi Jyoti Jain, DirectorGallery Ragini, on her falling in love with art, and other things in a candid interview. Each of our shows is treated differently and we have no fixed recipe or guidelines that would bind us in a certain manner, its more about an evolving process and our base reaction... 

Karimganj District is locateD in the southernmost part of the state of Assam in Northeast India. Karimganj Town, the head quarter of the Karimganj district is the second largest town in the Barak Valley. Karimganj became a subdivision of Sylhet District of British India in the late nineteenth century. It was served... 

on the ‘inner’ or psychological dimension of the personality than on outward bodily form. A self is always believed to be a subject with consciousness, capable to think and experience. Self has been discussed widely by the philosophers of east and west. Sartre has categorized the self into three forms: the self... 

KB: How did this possibility of a Biennial in India occur to you? It is heard that after listening to an interview with Bose in a Malayalam channel, Kerala’s then Education and Cultural Affairs Minister Mr. M. A. Baby, flew down to Mumbai to meet all of you at studios in Boriwali…. RK: Yes. This is exactly one... 

Artreach teams artists with children’s NGOs to create fun imaginative spaces. Projects are collaborative: the children decide what they’d like to paint and they do most of the painting. They enjoy this hands-on creative experience and when it is over they get to live or work in the space they have transformed.... 

The Bus Gallery, “Rikhiyaasan Rath” is an attempt to bring the past of the Rikhiyaasan (Musahar) community into the forvisualising and presenting some of the important mythicto the public by a bunch of girls belonging to the same communitBlaise Joseph presents an account of this novel initiative. Read More>>  Read More →

ABHA SETH as a Phd scholar at the Jawarharlal Nehru University, she has exploring roots of the Saptramatrika cult. She has also been writing on contemporary art and visual culture. Till last month she was a part of Art&Deal Magazine’s editorial team. ABHIJEET TAMHANE is a Mumbai-based art critic. Histories... 

The subjectivity of an individual’s perception confers some interpretative structure to the reality out there. The variety of lived experiences inevitably leads to a variety in its expression.  Read More →

During my extensive travels through Sikkim, I discovered an aspiring state with a unique sociology. A state burgeoning with talent and enterprise. However, being a person involved and conversant with the myriad forays of Indian artists in the metropolitan cities, Read More →