Saturday 14 March '09
It is the day before Shilpa Gupta’s solo exhibition at the Lalit Kala Akademi. Amid the cacophony of workers putting together photographs comes that familiar tryst-with-destiny speech of Jawaharlal Nehru from a singing microphone in a corner.Monday 9 March '09
While Madame Tussauds in London is preparing to unveil the wax statue of Sachin Tendulkar, at Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi the master blaster attains the status of a demigod on silk.Wednesday
4 March '09Before September 15, when Lehman Brothers still had not declared bankruptcy in New York City, when we still had not looked up subprime crisis in the dictionary...Monday
2 March '09When Iran underwent political and social changes after the revolution of 1979, Shadi Ghadirian was a five-year-old who could barely fathom the meaning of a Hejab that soon became compulsory.Sunday
1 March '09Over the past year artist Sarthak has been pouring over mythological scriptures, trying to find out more about the Nandi.Saturday
28 February '09The desire to have a crowded, packed hall during art exhibitions makes Delhi galleries a hot favourite for shows but when curator Sushma Bahl set out to plan the ‘Art Mart’ at Epicentre...Sunday
22 February '09It was in August 2008 when art circles in Delhi were buzzing with excitement when Sotheby’s showcased British artist Damien Hirst’s works in town.Tuesday
17 February '09Female foeticide has been explored as a subject by Indian artists over the years, but usually through individual initiatives. On February 20...Monday
16 February '09In 2007, when Sanjay K Sharma completed his Masters in Fine Arts from College of Art, Delhi, Indian art was riding high...Thursday
12 February '09Indian history has been cast in Swiss silver and laced with 24-carat gold. The Tricolour is embossed on a 2.2-mm ingot and so is a battlefield of the Revolt of 1857.Monday
9 February '09Artist Jeram Patel carefully made his way to Shridharani Gallery with the support of a walking stick and rested on a leather chair before glancing across the walls that had on display his recent artwork in steel and wood.Monday
9 February '09Indian history has been cast in Swiss silver and laced with 24-carat gold. The Tricolour is embossed on a 2.2-mm ingot and so is a battlefield of the Revolt of 1857.Saturday
7 February '09While art collectors trooped to the Malaysian High Commission on Friday evening to bid for artwork put on auction by the NGO Khushii, a few miles away, and some hours earlier, several members of the art fraternity assembled at Lalit Kala Akademi to discuss a darker side of the art boom.Wednesday
4 February '09During the inaugural ceremony of the new wing of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Union Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni made a reference to the innumerable architectural drawings...Tuesday
3 February '09The economic recession has brands’ world over announcing attractive discounts to woo customers but William Asprey...Sunday
1 February '09In 2008, it was the Rabari tribe of Kutch that found a place in his calendar, and this year photographer Rohit Chawla decided to look into the past and pay an ode to Raja Ravi Varma.Saturday
31 January '09Considering the slowdown in the art market, this is hardly an appropriate time to hold an auction, but Aman Nath is hoping that art connoisseurs will loosen their pursestrings for a good cause at the annual Khushii India on Canvas auction.Friday
30 January '09During the inaugural ceremony of the new wing of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Union Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni made a reference to the innumerable architectural drawings prepared for the expansion project that was first passed in 1985.Friday
23 January '09It is a Saturday evening that S H Raza will never forget; nor will the art world in a hurry. When the veteran Paris-based artist visited Dhoomimal Gallery, he was excited at the prospect of looking at his paintings from 1930s and 40s.Tuesday
20 January '09It is an issue that Indian art has been battling for a while now. While the price of the artwork is soaring, the number of fakes reported also seems to be on the rise, with the most recent incident being the discovery of fake paintings of SH Raza’s work.Tuesday
20 January '09For independent India, the National Gallery of Modern Art, inaugurated in 1954 by then Vice President S Radhakrishnan, stood as an institution aimed at promoting art.Saturday
17 January '09Richard Bartholomew (1926-85) was one of the finest art critics of the country. He watched a new nation’s tryst with modernism as closely as he did a thoughtful Ram Kumar in his Gole Market Studio...Sunday
18 January '09Naina Kanodia thinks Surendran Nair’s Tathaagata tathagata... epitomises the Indian spiritWednesday
14 January '09If buildings could speak, then Jaipur House overlooking India Gate would have some fantastic tales to tell.Sunday
11 January '09As Israeli forces pound Gaza, Hamas fire rockets and wounded people huddle among dead bodies in crumbling homes...
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