Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Day: October 9, 2012

Essay

“Understanding the Polemics of ‘Tribal Art’ in the Contemporary Art Scenario”

This has been a query that has haunted the art world in almost a Benjaminian sense of haunting, which is, when anyone posits the query – what is art? This has been a contentious and much debated issue since human…

Cover Story

A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE GALLERY

THE SLOWDOWN IN THE ART MARKET HAS LEFT THE COLLECTORS’ ANXIOUS AND APPREHENSIVE, AS THEY EAGERLY AWAIT THE MARKET TO GAIN MOMENTUM. TO ANALYSE THE DIFFERENT FACTORS THAT HAVE INHERENTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE STAGNANCY IN ART BUYING AND APPRECIATION, WE…

Cover Story

Art Market

Art’s value is guaranteed by money, which doesn’t mean that without money it has no value, but that money value overrides art value, while appearing to confer it. Both art and criticism have been defeated by money, even though money…

Editorial

Editorial

The emergence of art as a market in the early 90s has constituted it is as yet another investment opportunity. I recollect, when I started out in the late 80s to pursue my passion for collecting art, the formation of…