Just Around the Corner
The 6th Edition of the India Art Fair is all set to launch in January 2014. Rashmi Rajgopal wishes she could attend. Mumbai: Five years ago, I was in junior college and vaguely interested in art or...
View ArticleExperiments with Truth: Atul Dodiya
Ipshita Sen of Saffronart shares a note on Atul Dodiya’s current exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi. New York: Atul Dodiya, is one of India’s leading and most significant...
View ArticleNature Morte’s “Parallel Postulates”
Elizabeth Prendiville of Saffronart shares a note about the newly opened group exhibition at Nature Morte in New Delhi. New York: On December 7th Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi will be debuting...
View Article“Mughal India: Art, Culture & Empire” Comes To New Delhi
Elizabeth Prendiville of Saffronart discusses the British Library’s exhibition now on display in New Delhi. New York: This winter, the British Library has brought its exhibition “Mughal India: Art,...
View Article“Nalini Malani: Transgressions” at Asia Society Museum
New York: The Asia Society Museum in New York is currently showing their latest contemporary exhibition, “Nalini Malani: Transgressions”. Malani received her technical training in painting at the Sir...
View ArticleYour E-Pocket Guide to Exhibitions This June
The folks at Saffronart have put together a compact list of art events in Mumbai, Delhi, London and New York. All you need is a fully-charged phone to guide you and enough money if you’ve got travel...
View ArticleCan Site-Specific Artists Really Claim Space? The Georges Rousse Apnalaya...
Elizabeth Prendiville of Saffronart discusses appropriation in the site-specific work of artist Georges Rousse. Paris-based artist Georges Rousse is a master of layering perceptions for his viewers....
View ArticleBeirut Art Fair 2014 Showcases the Tiny and Beautiful of Contemporary Indian Art
Elizabeth Prendiville of Saffronart discusses the Indian Pavilion in the upcoming Beirut Art Fair This September Lebanon will once again thrive as a major cultural hotspot in the global art community...
View ArticleSadequain at AICON, New York
Josheen Oberoi visits AICON Gallery’s expansive Sadequain exhibition New York: It’s been a quiet month in the New York art world. With half the community decamping to Art Basel and the rest distracted...
View ArticleHow to ( … ) things that Don’t Exist
FIFA’s over but there’s more to Brazil than football! Sneha Shah explores the development of the 31st São Paolo Biennial. Panning a little to the west of Rio de Janeiro, where Germany championed...
View ArticleOn Art, Design and more…A tête-à-tête with Meera Sethi
Josheen Oberoi chats with Meera Sethi about identities, processes and her forthcoming projects New York: Meera Sethi is a Toronto based artist of Indian origin. With a graphics design background and...
View ArticleWhen you see a painting and don’t know what it is, you look…
If you were in our gallery earlier this month, ambling about with an all-knowing smile plastered across your face to mask the “Hmm, this is interesting, but I don’t get it and the catalogue is a bit...
View ArticleFolk And Tribal Arts of India: Part 1
Elizabeth Prendiville of Saffronart introduces the indigenous art forms of Patachitra and Jogi Art alongside illustrated lots from Storyltd’s upcoming auction of tribal and folk art NEW YORK: On...
View ArticleAn Evening with Krishen Khanna
Vidhita Raina reports on Krishen Khanna’s lecture on “The Progressives” at London’s Courtauld Institute “Is the artist only interested in being a unique individual? If I had considered my work to be...
View ArticleArt and Activism at Broad Art Museum
Amit Kumar Jain reflects on The Artist as Activist, a joint exhibition by Bangladeshi artists Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum opened a landmark exhibition on...
View ArticlePostwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965
Guest contributor Ananya Mukhopadhyay reviews the exhibition, on view at Haus der Kunst, Munich, until 26 March 2017 Haus der Kunst’s ongoing exhibition Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the...
View ArticleTop 6 Online Art Market Trends
The year ahead presents exciting times for the online art market. Last week, Art Tactic and Bermuda-based insurance company Hiscox released their 2017 Online Trade Report, citing an encouraging trend...
View Article4 “Blue” Chip Works of Art
In our forthcoming Evening Sale, four renowned Modernists explore the potential of the colour blue—each envisioning an imagined, real or metaphorical landscape—in their own unique way.
View Article2 Artists and a Distinct Friendship
F N Souza and M F Husain were integral members of the Bombay Progressive Artists’ Group and had their own distinct styles. We look at their unique and long-lasting friendship through a painting that...
View Article1 Minute with a Devi
WATCH NOW: Senior Vice President Punya Nagpal discusses the striking effect of contemporary Indian artist Ravinder Reddy's monumental sculpture, Devi.
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