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Our Artists Of The Week dive into nature and the senses to forge indelible connections

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Sanjay Kumar Raj: A discovery of contemporary social and natural circumstances The deepest impact on Sanjay Kumar Raj has been, he professes, the experience of having grown up in tender rural climes and having lived amidst nature, observing its elements in all their splendor, from the creativity of the changes of forms and shades, to […]

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That\’s surreal! (When Dalí created a custom objet d\’art for Air India in the 1960s)

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Last week, debt-laden national carrier Air India was sold to Tata Sons, the country\’s oldest and largest conglomerate. Things came full circle as it was the Tata Group that had founded the airline in 1932 and then lost it to nationalisation in 1953 — and now in 2021, emerged as the winning bidder for India’s

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The Swiss sculptor who was also a philosopher: Alberto Giacometti

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October 10, On This Day His face was one among icons that adorned the eighth series of Swiss franc banknotes (for 100 Swiss francs), as did his iconic sculpture, L\’Homme qui marche I. But that\’s not his only legacy. Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker of much repute and renown, and

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NYT\’s snapshot of the Indian art sector in the pandemic; Kashmir’s vanishing papier-mache artists

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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

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‘Send them home’: UNESCO pushes for Elgin Marbles’ return; Arc de Triomphe unwrapped; Warhol’s portrait of Basquiat on block

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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

‘Send them home’: UNESCO pushes for Elgin Marbles’ return; Arc de Triomphe unwrapped; Warhol’s portrait of Basquiat on block Read More »

\’Food dye as paint, hair as a brush\’: A lifer\’s escape into art; and, Gandhi in art through the ages

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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

\’Food dye as paint, hair as a brush\’: A lifer\’s escape into art; and, Gandhi in art through the ages Read More »

A missing Klimt is reborn; Anish Kapoor’s art ‘gets violent’Muhammad Ali’s artworks go on sale

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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

A missing Klimt is reborn; Anish Kapoor’s art ‘gets violent’Muhammad Ali’s artworks go on sale Read More »

Cubist-Futurist, experimental Dadaist, conceptual artist — Marcel Duchamp was a champion of revolutionizing art

On This Day /

October 2, On This Day Numerous critics consider Marcel Duchamp to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century. The phenomenal visionary, who died 53 years ago today on October 2, 1968, was born in July 1887 and had an incredible career spanning several decades — he was a French painter, sculptor,

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Relics of Royalty: Exploring India\’s missing art since colonial times – III

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In a short, multi-part series, we explore some of the masterpieces of art that were spirited away by colonial powers from what stands as modern India — all of which have not been returned till date. In part III, we catch a glimpse of select royal relics, encapsulating the grandeur of yore, much of which

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