Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Day: November 6, 2013

Interview

INTERVIEW

Sushma Sabnis A Paradigm of Beauty An intense beauty is rendered permanent and timeless when juxtaposed with the abhorable ugliness of things. It is this quality of life’s chiaroscuro-esque balance that German artist Martin Eder captures in his artworks. In…

Interview

INTERVEIW

Meena Varma -Paramjot Walia Lado Sarai is an Art Hub Three years back, in 2010, Arts of the Earth, a gallery focused on tribal and folk art of India, moved from Hauz Khas village to Lado Sarai. Meena Varma, director…

Interview

INTERVIEW

Paramjot Walia Back to the Future of the Gallery Synonymous to the awakening of modern art in India, and being one of the galleries pivotal in promoting art and artists over the decades, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi owners, Uma…

Obituary

OBITUARY

Siddharth Sivakumar Remembering Parvez Kabir Pedalling around the campus on his bicycle with an impish face, Parvez Kabir looked more like a student than a teacher. But behind his youthful informality and charming personality was a seasoned critic, someone deeply…

Photo Essay

PHOTO ESSAY

Debadutta Saha B o u n d l e s s Chi ldhood . . . . . . . . . spotted at the Bank of river Brahmaputra, Tezpur, Assam, seems very rare in today’s fast and busy world….

Cinema

CINEMA

Darshana Sreedhar Centenary Celebrations of India n Cinema in Chennai The year 2013 has been etched in memory as special on many counts. It has been 100 years since the release of Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian silent…

Preview

PREVIEW

Uma Nair MONARCH OF KITCHEN-KITSCH Subodh Gupta’s artworks rarely inspire moderate responses, and this is one signal of the importance of his achievement. Focusing on some of the most unexpected objects as models for his work, Gupta’s works eschew typical…

Preview

PREVIEW

Sushma Sabnis In the Pink of Art The world will see a pretty pink cloud of art and culture rising from the city of Jaipur this November. Ushering in a little bit of warmth for the cold winters to come,…

Book Review

BOOK REVIEW

Usha Aroor COOKING ,THE ART AND THE ARTIST Reviving the age old art of appeasing the taste buds and the soul, the book ‘The Konkani Saraswat Cookbook’ by Asha Philar is more than just a cook book. Flavoured with memories…

Review

REVIEW

KETAKI SHETH : A CERTAIN GRACE Uma Nair Working with a black and white palette capturing sensitive and haunting images, photographer Ketaki Sheth’s ‘A Certain Grace’ documenting the lives of the Sidis, immigrants from east Africa, was a deeply moving…

Review

REVIEW

Uma Nair. Reminding one of the power and wisdom of portraiture, be it of the mundane or the rare, Sooni Taraporevala’s photography show on ‘Parsis’ was a gentle look at the poetic and curious lives of the community, observes Sooni…

Review

REVIEW

Nisha Aggarwal. Inquiring into the historical Salt march of 1930 and the near extinct Azrakh traditions, artist and textile designer Shelly Jyoti weaves a fabric using socio-economic and cultural threads of Gandhian philosophies in her installation works, reviews The solo…

Review

REVIEW

Nisha Aggarwal. The world around us is generally discernible by the placation of two opposite pylons, which could be similar or opposite in nature but are prevalent in every core of human life. Flipping the crucial coin of nature versus…

Review

REVIEW

AURA Art Shubhalakshmi Shukla Drawing upon the ever changing flow of water and its influences on the artistic creativity, reviews the changes in the time and tides of Indian traditional and contemporary art over the decades on display at the…