Auctions. There were seven this year and the art market is buzzing with astronomical prices

Bollywood’s growing interest in the arts. We hear Salman Khan has started painting, Manoj Bajpai collecting

Camps: Artists are still zipping around the globe and the art camp is the biggest excuse to get out of studio practice

Dodiya, who has entered the big league with his painting going for a crore at the Saffronart auction this year

Easy investment in art, with Pay Pal and online buying, it’s easier for young investors to start on their collection

Fakes. This year, the fake scam took a backseat, with Anjolie Ela Menon’s thumb print method of authentication

Galleries, they are popping up all over like mushrooms.

Husain, MF is India’s poster boy, even at 93, despite the controversy over the Bharat Mata painting

Indian art going international.

Jacks of all trade. Some painters wielded the camera, others went for multimedia

Kitsch. The last time we checked, the kitsch quotient in art was well and kicking.

LOSER. Even the art world has its share of losers, artists who failed to make an impression despite slaving

Mirchandani and Steinrueke, who’s cutting edge new gallery of the same name has hosted three international shows before even completing a year

N for Nemai Gosh whose travelling photography retrospective of Satyajit Ray had fans thronging the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi and Mumbai

Online art picked up after the success of Saffron, almost every artist worth her salt has an online presence

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