Cover Story
Issues of Iconography and Contemporary Indian Art: A Rethink. Let us consider the Contemporary Indian Art before we explore the issues of iconography. Apparent is the expansion of art into areas beyond the perimeter of painting, sculpture and perhaps we…
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…
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…
Fragmentary world offered by Photography
Notes on the historiography and comprehensively Fragmentary world offered by Photography The historicized methodology of the ‘meeting point’ between the pre-fixed frontal quality of sculpture and the overall appearance of painting is called as photography. So much for the aesthetic…
Instituting Artists’ Collectives:
The Bangalore/Bengaluru experiments with “Solidarity Economies”It often comes as a revelation to art observers, who are searching for an alternative to the commercially driven contemporary art worlds of Mumbai and Delhi, with their imposing art spaces and booming auction houses,…
International
The exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ was brought to Rome at MAXXI Museum from the 22nd Sept 2011 to the 29th Jan 2012 by the Serpentine Gallery, London . This was showcased in London in 2009, has traveled through Oslo and will…
RELEVANCE OF HUSAIN
When time accelerates not only future events hurtle towards us faster, even the events of recent past disappear into oblivion more rapidly. It was only on June 9 last year that Maqbool Fida Husain died in a London hospital far…
VOL.18 NO.126 -127
JULY - AUGUST, 2022