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First of it kind hybrid biennale – digital and physical – will showcase collections from different museums. The Pothi team report The first Museum Biennale is started today in Patna, a day on which the Bihar Divas is celebrated as well. This mega-event at the Bihar Museum is the first of its kind in India. […]
7-day Museum Biennale kicks off at the Bihar Museum in Patna Read More »
The Art Market 2021 Report is out. This Art Basel and UBS survey has been prepared by Dr. Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics. The Pothi team brings you excerpts and overviews of this incisive report. This is part 1 of a six-part series. As you would expect, the coronavirus pandemic has had a significant
The Covid effect: Big leap in online art sales, says the Art Market 2021 report Read More »
A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends
Holocaust art shows in Berlin, space art captures a galaxy Read More »
March 21, On This Day A chirp that changed the world It was 15 years ago today, on March 21, 2006, that social media microblogging site Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. It has over 500 million users today, and one of its most identifiable features is that
The art of Twitter (on its 15th birthday) Read More »
\”I remember I wrote a letter to my father those days, and he sent me a money order of seven rupees.\”
From a small village to MSU, pages from the journey of Haku Shah Read More »
Ruby Jagrut tells how the abirspace.com and abirpothi.com ideas germinated during the lockdown and became a reality, despite many worries and obstacles I have always recognised myself as an artist who is passionate about natural dyes. The smell of dyes and jars full of tree barks and minerals in my studio is my familiar domain.
As we cross the first 30 days of an idea Read More »
The Pothi team profiles Elisa Nicolaci, whose dramatic sculptures are made of various fabrics, each representing itself as well as qualities like depth and light Sculptor Elisa Nicolaci was born in Palermo in 1977. She trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara. During her years at the Academy, she went through the traditional
In the final part of this special story, the Pothi team talks to Parthiv Shah about the changing perspectives in the world of art. He also has simple but crucial advice for young artists. You can read the first part of this story here. As we continue our conversation with photographer Parthiv Shah, the son
Abir Pothi presents Room For More Art — a series of features on interior designers across geographic boundaries, discussing with them the nuances of their profession, their methods of sourcing and projecting art into their work, the challenges they face, and a whole lot more perspective. Hiloni Sutaria: Cutting edge transformations Having stepped foot
Futuristic, minimalistic, contemporary and classic: This week\’s designers Read More »
In an interview with the Pothi team, photographer Parthiv Shah recalls his childhood in Ahmedabad and the troop of “different people” who dropped by to meet with his father. This is the first part of his reminiscences. This week if Haku Shah were alive it would have been different. We would have an artist who