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First Take Update, 2022: Eminent Jury expediently selects Finalists for exhibition

By Vinay Seth Since 2016, Abir has been annually inviting artwork entries from emerging artists from all over India, whereafter the entrants are shortlisted for displaying their works in a group show. From these shortlisted exhibition finalists, the top few — 10 this year — are selected for the First Take award, carrying an honorarium. […]

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Born on this day: Brassai, ‘The Eye of Paris’ instrumental in establishing Photography as a Fine Art

On this day, 9th of September in 1899, Gyula Halasz was born in Brasso (Brasov), Austria-Hungary (now Romania) to a Hungarian father and Armenian mother. When he was three his family relocated to Paris, where his father worked as a French literature professor at the Sorbonne university. Gyula later went on to attend the Hungarian

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AI-generated painting creates furore as it bags first place; Promising young artists exhibit in Kolkata; and one more art news

AI-generated prize-winning artwork puts award to question Jason M. Allen of Pueblo West, Colorado, took home the first place blue ribbon in the Colorado State Fair\’s contest for emerging digital artists. What is of exceptional note is that he ‘created’ his entry with Midjourney, an artificial intelligence program that turns lines of text into hyper-realistic

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Grandma Moses: Acclaimed Self-Taught ‘Primitive’ Artist Who Started Painting In Her Late Seventies

On this day, 7th of September, 1860, Anna Mary Robertson Moses was born in Greenwich, New York, US. She was the third of ten children born to Russell King Robertson, a farmer, and Margaret Shannahan. Due to lack of warm cloths, Anna Moses attended school only in the summer. At the age of 12 she

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Exhibit focusing on Alienation, curated by Meera Menezes (Part of DCAW 2022)

The Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW) 2022 has been showcasing a large number of artworks by diverse artists selected by 7 eminent art galleries of the city. While the exhibiting space of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) at the Bikaner House has been used in an interesting manner. But what is equally interesting is

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An exhibition of watercolours reflecting the viewer’s own perception

By Rajesh Kumar “A persistent memory shapes our future. Attempting to arrive at some clarity, by reiterating the one memory with the multiples of what seems like the same work, persistence has created its own rhythm and cadence”, states Jahangir Asgar Jani in his artist statement for his solo show titled  ‘Pareidolia: Songs of (Dis)Belief’.

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Born on this day: Caspar David Friedrich, Man facing forlorn landscapes

“The painter should not paint merely what he sees in front of him, but also what he sees within himself. If he sees nothing within, he should not paint what he sees before him.” – Caspar David Friedrich On this day September 5 in 1774, candle-maker Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich and his wife Sophie Dorothea Bechly

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