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London auctions prove that art is now for the super-rich

NDTV, Sunday, June 29th 2008
If proof were needed that the international art market has become a playground for the super-rich, it was delivered by record-breaking auctions in London this week.
Good time to buy art

The Economic Times, Sunday, June 29th 2008
As the stock market continues its downward trend, there are a number of investors turning to art as an alternate investment option.
Exposure makes Indian art prices gallop in global mart

Thaindian News, Saturday, June 28th 2008
The price curve of Indian art is shooting north in the global market because of “increased consciousness” about it, say experts.
Sadanand Menon: `Chaste Art is Not Art`

Business Standard, Friday, June 27th 2008
It is over six weeks since Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul of the Delhi High Court delivered his lucid judgment quashing a bunch of cases against beleaguered artist M.F.Husain.
India art week at auction houses

The Telegraph, Wednesday, June 25th 2008
Christie’s and Sotheby’s expect contemporary works to fetch millions of pounds
Saffronart's Summer Online Auction Breaks Records!

Saffronart, Tuesday June 24th 2008
Subodh Gupta sells for world-record US $1.43 million (Rs. 5.7 crores) - the highest price achieved by a contemporary Indian artist at auction globally
Bengal School of Art exhibition to open in US

The Economic Times, Tuesday June 24th 2008
The exhibition of Bengal School of Art’s master Nandalal Bose will open at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the US from June-end. A show of nearly 100 of the artist’s finest paintings will be on display till the beginning of...
Indian art to feature at Sothebys

Monday, June 23rd 2008
Indian artists such as Subodh Gupta (b. 1964), Bharti Kher (b. 1969), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Raqib Shaw (b.1974) and T.V. Santhosh (b. 1968) are an ever-growing force in Sotheby’s international sales of Contemporary Art
Why Anjolie is uspet

DNA, Sunday June 22nd 2008
It may not have anything to do with her art exhibitions, but artist Anjolie Ela Menon is in a flap. It’s the state of Indian art that has her worried.
Subodh Gupta’s work fetches $1.33 mn at Saffronart auction

Thaindian News, Friday, June 20th 2008
New Delhi-based contemporary artist Subodh Gupta’s untitled work of steel vessels soared past S.H. Raza’s “Germination” to record a high of Rs.57 million
Contradictions and Complexities: Contemporary Art From India

Los Angeles Times, Thursday, June 19th 2008
LOS ANGELES art dealer and curator Patricia Hamilton points to a decadent and colorful two-frame Indian cartoon with English-language text. "It's like a surreal drama," she says of the work of the artist Chitra Ganesh.
Photography finding toehold in Indian market

DNA, Tuesday, June 17th 2008
The humble camera is now the artist's brush in India. Once dismissed as a mundane device to freeze dull official frames like weddings, births, gatherings and graduation ceremonies, the camera is now seen as an alternative genre...
Invest in the booming art market!

CNBC-TV18, Tuesday, June 17th 2008
The Indian art market has grown from being a miniscule USD 2 million to a huge USD 400 million market over the last seven years.
Guess who bought Kallat’s artworks?

DNA, Monday, June 16th 2008
Salma Hayek’s father-in-law and Gucci owner, Francois Pinault, picked up the artist’s huge creations
Safeguarding precious art

DNA, Monday, June 16th 2008
Sensing a rise in demand for places where to stock artworks, Jai Danani and Gaurav Singhania, proprietors of The Art Vault, have decided to open another vault soon
Souza & the coming of age of Indian art

DNA, June 15th 2008
Just when everyone is talking about the economy slowing down, the crash in the stockmarkets, the zooming price of oil and the need for belt-tightening, a work by FN Souza is sold in an overseas auction at the stunning price of...
Riding the Elephant

Fortune, June 12th 2008
Tina Ambani pays record $2.5m at Christie’s Indian art auction
Two art auctions next week could heat up the market

Business Stanbard, June 12th 2008
In 2007, when a Mumbai-based art gallery released a set of 18 limited edition serigraphs of painter Jehangir Sabavala, the sceptics among collectors sniggered about what they perceived as manipulation of prices.
Souza's 1.27 Million Pound `Birth' Breaks Record for Indian Art

Bloomberg, June 12th 2008
Francis Newton Souza's painting ``Birth'' sold for 1.27 million pounds ($2.5 million) at a Christie's International sale yesterday in London
Trust helps local artists gain a footing in UK

The Economic Times, June 11th 2008
The Charles Wallace India Trust has extended its support to artists in the early or middle stage of their career.
Art sales: big spenders dispel gloom

Telegraph.co.uk, June 10th 2008
 Roman Abramovich and Brad Pitt were among the better-known big spenders spotted in Switzerland for the opening of the world's biggest modern and contemporary art fair.
Valuing art: The role of provenance and auction

The Hindu, June 10th 2008
The French verb provenir means to come from/stem from, referring to the source. Art is perhaps one of the very few asset classes, where valuations depend so much on its source.
A Celebration of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art at Christie's

Artdaily.org, June 10th 2008
Christie’s London is proud to announce a particularly fresh and multi-faceted celebration of South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art in June 2008.
Philadelphia Museum Highlights Modern Art Of India

HULIQ.com, June 9th 2008
In 1905, Britain had ruled the country for more than 50 years, and westernization had largely pushed indigenous artistic traditions aside. In response, many artists looked toward the past for new ideas inspired by a...
Buyers lap up India-oriented art works at Sotheby's

The Economic Times, June 9th 2008
Overseas auctions are increasingly displaying a novel feature: period art pieces based on Indian themes created by international artists.
Fight for art’s sake

The Hindu, June 8th 2008
There exists an inherent conflict when one tries to reconcile the academic and the business aspects of art, particularly in the case of contemporary Indian Art.
Art thou a woman?

Hindustan Times, June 7th 2008
This past month saw a whole range of exhibitions of paintings by leading women artists of India. While some explored traditional art like warli or tankha in new avatars, some others broke free and made their own mould.
Do we really want the freer circulation of cultural goods?

The Art Newspaper, June 6th 2008
A few years ago, I received a grant from the Getty Foundation for a project on museums in South Asia. I was just about to send 12 researchers to around 100 museums all over India, to get a sense of what place museums occupy in the...
Know Your South Asian Art

New York Entertainment, June 6th 2008
As the euro-smug international art world continues to drop millions on chalet décor at this week's Art Basel in Switzerland, American collectors at the fair — and there are fewer than usual this year — have been talking excitedly...
Bid & Hammer to take art to tier II cities

Business Standard, June 6th 2008
When a man approached Meher Dadha, chairman and managing director of the Bangalore-based auction house Bid & Hammer, with an offer to sell a painting for Rs 1.5 lakh, Dadha's curiosity led him to the seller's house.
Connoisseurs revisit modern art counter

The Economic Times, June 6th 2008
It’s the early and modern art that is again generating interest among the art connoisseurs and art lovers. Along with the modernists, buyer focus is now shifting to old masters from Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.
At Art Basel, Old Names and Few Showstoppers

New York Times, June 5th 2008
Subodh Gupta, an Indian artist whose work was offered for the first time in a big New York evening auction last month, was represented here too.
Indian art fetches record bids at Christie's

The Economic Times, June 3rd 2008
Indian art has soared at the Christie’s Asian contemporary art sale in Hong Kong. The auction saw records being set for 10 artists, including Subodh Gupta, Jitish Kallat and Justin Ponmany.
There's nothing faulty about Basel

Times Online, June 3rd 2008
If something is making waves in the art world you can be sure it will wash up on the shores of Art Basel
Heidestrasse: Off-Off the Beaten Track in Berlin

International Herald Tribune, June 3rd 2008
While Berlin might be the only major western European city that still has open space, development — albeit of a pioneering sort — is slowly hitting even the most offbeat sites.
A new wave of Indian artists

Emirates Business 24x7, June 3rd 2008
Indian art is much in demand as the world wakes up to its merit and this is evident by the fact that Christie's, one of the most reputed auction houses in the world, is holding a sale of South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art.
India a cultural super power: Pranab

The Hindu, June 2nd 2008
Describing India as a “cultural super power,” External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here on Sunday that the importance of “cultural diplomacy” in today’s world could not be overstated and the country had a major role to play in...
Hot property

Express India.com, June 2nd 2008
Tapping Bangalore as the next big art haunt, auction house Bid & Hammer are holding their next auction this June 15, featuring Modern and Contemporary Indian Art.
India in demand

Sunday Herald, June 1st 2008
The month of May seems to have augured well for Indian art in international auctions, writes Giridhar Khasnis
Soon, art haat in India

The Times of India, 1st June 2008
From lugging paintings around to galleries to personally interacting with buyers and patrons alike, Indian artists go through the grind before managing to showcase their art.
 





 
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