Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

    • Month: August 2016

    Editorial

    EDITORIAL

    Delhi and the national Capital Region catapult into chaos as traffic goes berserk with jams that last for hours at end, courtesy of the heavy monsoon. Rampant downpours and water logging notwithstanding. Almost as if the heavens mourn the loss…

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    Snippets

    SNIPPETS

    Kaleidoscope Piramal Art Gallery Get ready to explore Kaleidoscope, a painting exhibition by group of legendary artists. The two month long exhibition willdisplay the artwork of K.G Subramanyan, M.F Hussain, Ganesh Pyne, K. Ramanujan, Sujata Bajaj, F.N Souza, S.H Raza,…

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    Cover Story

    COVER STORY

    Mona Lisa and My Experience of Viewing A Novel Magnum Opus: An Ecstatic Feeling And Brief Overview Dr. Raj Kumar Mazinder Though my interest in Mona Lisa or Leonardo and also the great European painting tradition especially the Renaissance period…

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    Cover Story

    COVER STORY

    Goa’s Sacred Art Kaavi:Heta Pandit Lina Vincent Sunish Goa (N 15 13’ E 73 37’) would probably topple over if you tried to fit it on a pinhead on the map of western India. Best known for its beautiful beaches…

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    Cover Story

    COVER STORY

    Anubhav Gallery National Museum Making a difference for sightless visions Apurva Sinha Through this article, the writer shares her thoughts on her visit to the ‘Anubhav’ gallery of National Museum, New Delhi. Her exploratory nature brought her in conversation with…

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    Feature

    FEATURE

    Divine Pleasures:Met Museum New York Kronos Collection 17th-19th Century Miniatures Uma Nair Divine Pleasures at the Met museum belongs to a curator who has gifted them to the Met museum-the sanctuary he worked at. This act of generosity speaks of…

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    Obituary

    OBITUARY

    Syed Haider Raza(1922-2016) Art & Deal Correspondent Syed Haider, legend of modern Indian art breathed his last in Delhi on 23rd July, 2016. He was 94 and had been working up to his last days till his body gave way…

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    Obituary

    OBITUARY

    Mahasweta Devi(1926-2016) Art & Deal Correspondent Mahashweta Devi, the 90 year old noted writer-activist from Bengal, passed away on July 28th 2016. Born in 1926 in Dhaka, now in Bangladesh,Mahashweta was inspired by both her poet-writer father, Manish Ghatak, and…

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    Interview

    INTERVIEW

    The Portrait Of A Collector Lina Vincent Sunish In a country with a rich legacy of materialand built heritage, but a relatively smallnumber of museums to house the arte factsor conserve them in-situ, a few individuals are investing personal time…

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    Essay

    ESSAY

    Dhiraj Looking Back Dhiraj Choudhury I landed at the Mexico City airport on the day of my 80th birthday, April 1st 2016. I had left for Tampa airport from Seminole in Florida early in the morning, changing my flight from…

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    Essay

    ESSAY

    Najmi Sura – Remembrance of Things Past Edward Lucie-Smith In her new series of paintings, Najmi Sura evokes the court life of the Indian subcontinent that was ruled by the Mughal emperors. ‘Ruled by’ is, of course an inexact description….

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    Review

    REVIEW

    Intricate Intaglios in Kolkata(Kolkata) Uma Nair No one thought a sculptor from Shantiniketan would go to France, to forge a new process in printmaking that celebrated the broken colour or pointillist colour printing process. Using techniques of plate preparation such…

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    Review

    REVIEW

    Two Solo Projects by Artists: Prasanta Sahu and Ushmita Sahu(Hyderabad) Palak Dubey Works by PrasantaSahu, titled, ‘Blueprint of City’ and UshmitaSahu’s titled,’White Noise’ were recently on display at Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad from 1st July to 15th July. Both the…

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    Review

    REVIEW

    An Inner Retrospective: Laxma Goud Lina Vincent Sunish To celebrate 20 years of Gallery Sumukha Bangalore, an artist who has had a long association with the space was given a solo exhibition- Laxma Goud, ‘An Inner Retrospective’ brought together drawings,…

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