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India Art Fair 2022: Celebration for enthusiast art lovers – Uma prakash

The 13th India Art fair held at NSCI was a wonderful celebration for enthusiast art lovers who flocked to the venue regardless of sultry weather and a revival of a few Covid cases. This much waited fair returned after two…

August 31, 2022 Art & Deal

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Goa Familia: An Evolving Archive Of The Goa’s Social History – Manashri Pai Dukle Photography in India has been an important aspect of documentation, since the time of its origin in the mid-19th century. Propagating at a time when colonial…

February 21, 2021 Art & Deal

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Urban Igloos Rajesh Punj There is an incredible monumentality to how they see things at Hangar Bicocca, Milan; and under the stewardship of director, curator Vicente Todolí, the institution’s scale appears to have gone through the roof, or as near…

December 29, 2018 Art & Deal

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Pratibha Dakoji A Page from the Diary of an Artist Sukanya Garg Walking to her neighborhood stationary in Hauz Khas market to purchase a meticulously lined diary, Pratibha Dakoji would have never imagined that those successive visits, across a timeline…

December 29, 2018 Art & Deal

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Art for The Blind ART & DEAL Correspondant It would not only be difficult but extremely challenging if your eyes were blindfolded and you would have been asked to paint on a canvas. But Krupa Shah, an artist with a…

September 23, 2018 Art & Deal

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Step Inside and You Are No Longer a Stranger Vivan Sundaram First Retrospective, knma new delhi Indira Lakshmi Prasad Walking into the exhibition is somewhat like stepping into an alternate universe. The sheer scale of the display, the architecture of…

July 2, 2018 Art & Deal

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Embracing- As an act of resistance Sandhya Annaiah The imagination of a land, where women live at peace with themselves and with nature is a recurrent theme of feminist utopias. This is the want of a land where there is…

May 2, 2018 Art & Deal

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The village of life lessons Deepak Ramola Project FUEL, an organization that documents human wisdom, has been passing on life lessons of people from all walks of life. From survivors of the Nepal earthquake to children studying under the Taliban…

May 2, 2018 Art & Deal

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‘Silent Echo’ by Ravikumar Kashi Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai Tanishka D’lyma You cannot stroll by the pieces in ‘Silent Echo’, the solo exhibition by Ravikumar Kashi, you stop at each of them and listen to what they tell you. It is,…

April 3, 2018 Art & Deal

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Wandering off the art fair in Delhi Franck Barthelemy There is something addictive about visiting art fairs. There is something exciting too. One can see in a couple of days hundreds of art works, many are mediocre, a few are…

April 3, 2018 Art & Deal

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The Rebellion of the Dead Franck Barthelemy On 8th January, I was lucky enough to check my Facebook account and found a reminder sent by Nalini Malani : “last day of my show at the Pompidou Centre”. I thought I…

March 8, 2018 Art & Deal

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Arts to reach and teach: Indo-Korea workshop at Udaipur Apurva Sinha If you have never seen a light how do you know what it is? If you have never contemplated, how do you know what life is? If you have…

March 8, 2018 Art & Deal

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A Rare Indian Discovery in Scotland Historic environment scotland (hes) A century-old collection of photographs of India was discovered in the archive of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). This organization is now known…

February 7, 2018 Art & Deal

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Voicing the forgotten stories of the Mills in Bombay Tanishka D’lyma The Mythologies of Mumbai Project tells us a story more than 300 years in the making. It begins with King Charles II handing out the islets of Bombay to…

February 7, 2018 Art & Deal

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59th National Exhibition of Arts at Lalit Kala Akademi Himanshu Dabral The Lalit Kala Akademi’s National Exhibition of Art is held every year to exhibit works of brilliance and to give appreciation and recognition to outstanding artists. The 59th National…

February 7, 2018 Art & Deal

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The Politics of Hair Special Correspondent “I feel there is something unexplored about a woman that only a woman can explore.” —Georgia O’Keeffe Ritu Kamath’s studio is a hive of activity as she prepares for her upcoming solo exhibition. In…

February 7, 2018 Art & Deal

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THE ENCHANTED FOREST, THE LEGACY OF JANGARH SINGH SHYAM INDIRA LAKSHMI PRASAD Last October, Bikaner House in New Delhi hosted the exhibition of legendary modern Gond tribal artist Jangarh Singh Shyam. The exhibition was held following the release of the…

January 23, 2018 Art & Deal

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BARAK MUSEUM: RUNG THE PRELUDE FOR NEW POSSIBILITIES DR. GANESH NANDI Barak Valley is a historical place situated in the Southern part of Assam and covering mainly three districts; Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi. Many things combined together work as a…

January 23, 2018 Art & Deal

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Of Spaces and Stories Neha Mathrani In the context of the arts, The Story of Space became perhaps one of the more ambitious undertakings in the country. It was a community funded and driven campaign, powered by volunteers, online crowd-funding,…

December 18, 2017 Art & Deal

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A SCULPTURAL AFFAIR Lina Vincent Sunish RMZ Ecoworld in Bangalore unveiled their sculpture park initiative in July 2017, opening out the possibility for thousands of office goers and general public to come in contact with art works of considerable beauty…

November 9, 2017 Art & Deal

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Chitrashaala Art & Deal Correspondent In September 2017, it was in the picturesque Rajasthani town of Chittorgarh that the fourth edition of Chitrashaala art residency an initiative by Justa Hotels, and brainchild of the hotelier Ashish Vohra and curator Anirudh…

November 9, 2017 Art & Deal

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Whispering Torsos – Loud Motion SANGEETA KUMARI Torsos communicate the physical and mental being of a woman, of substance which she carries in the aura of her personality with esteem. In the anatomy of a woman the torso is the…

October 3, 2017 Art & Deal

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SURFACE SCRATCHES INDIRA LAKSHMI PRASAD The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. – Allan Kaprow. It’s difficult to pin point the exact origins of performance art. Having had a crucial role…

August 9, 2017 Art & Deal

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Environmental Consciousness in Current Inaian Art Lina vincent sunish In recent years there has been a surge of activity, both global and national, acknowledging environmental engagement with the arts. While artists have always been drawn to the representation and sometimes…

June 22, 2017 Art & Deal

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Mark on Clay – Partha Dasgupta An overview of a ceramics workshop organised by the Lalit Kala Kendra, Kolkata Regional centre Lalit Kala Akademi, the National Academy of Art, was set up in 1954 and acts as the Government’s apex…

June 22, 2017 Art & Deal

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58th National Exhibition of Art by the LALIT KALA AKADEMI Subhra Mazumdar This Oscar among art events that is ongoing for the 58th time leaves behind a trail of after episodes through the ten- day long Art Conclave that begins…

April 9, 2017 Art & Deal

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Concrete Containers of Water: Floating Notes on Development Mario ‘D’SouzA The loss of an ecosystem for a community is not simply the loss of livelihood or a home but also the loss of a culture – the rites and rituals,…

April 9, 2017 Art & Deal

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Floating Piers: Homage to The Spectacle of Worthless Grandiose H. A. Anil Kumar ‘Floating Piers’ (2016) by Jean Claude and Christo was a work that was seemingly functional for sixteen days, as long as it existed. This bridge also served…

February 9, 2017 Art & Deal

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The Indywood Film Carnival Hema Iyer Ramani Hyderabad is the perfect setting for any film festival because the Ramoji Film city has been designed to provide the ambience for not only film shoots, but also to host mega-scale events. The…

November 25, 2016 Art & Deal

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A Monthly Feature On Art Events in Chennai V.V. Ramani Meera – The Soul Divine Meera the poet princess is an epitome of bhakti and total surrender, and her life story that is so strongly embedded in the minds of…

October 24, 2016 Art & Deal

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Go Wild for Life : World Environment Day, 2016 Apurva Sinha “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein Tender human relations nurture in the lap of nature, and it is nature that gives…

June 18, 2016 Art & Deal

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Renaissances of Public Art: PUBLICA 2016 by Surbhi Modi and Jaipur Travel Photo Festival Santanu Ganguly There is a good sign or a sort of revolution that has started in the field of public art. Not only artists but also…

April 18, 2016 Art & Deal

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“Emotion In Motion” Striking Shades of Human Emotions Showcased By Celebrated Singaporean Artist P. Gnana at Plush Art Spice Gallery, The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa Art & Deal Correspondent On Friday, January 15, 2016, Art Spice, the plush art gallery…

March 30, 2016 Art & Deal

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The 4th Dharamshala International Film Festival Santanu Ganguly The 4th edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival took place in McLeod Ganj from 5-8 November 2015. Longtime residents of Dharamshala, filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam initiated the film festival…

March 30, 2016 Art & Deal