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TODAY'S COLUMNIST | | Still on a bull run |  | | He Saffronart winter online auction augurs well for the future of our contemporary art. Not only did it figure 160 lots, 147 of which sold, netting a total of Rs 66.3 crore, but our blue chip artists who dominated the sales, give us a good idea of the rate of appreciation of our best art. 17.12.06 | |  |
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| | |  | A resilient market | | | Seeing a recent exhibition at the NGMA that I can describe only as the “Edge of Disaster”, I was amazed at how many artists have sunk to gimmickry and exhibitionism, not to speak of downright copy-cat activity. 03.12.06 | | |  | Another Indian returns | | | The Indian contemporary art market has proved more than attractive if one looks at the number of Indian artists coming back to India to exhibit. 19.11.06 | | |  | What’s worked | | | As the colonial powers refused to gift us with the tools of mass production on a large enough scale, our skills in handcrafted production survived while they did not in Europe and the US. 05.11.06 | | |  | A new lot to watch out for | | | Yet another auction house, Triveda, is to hold its first auction in the Grand Ballroom of the Grand Hotel at Vasant Kunj in Delhi on 25 October. There are 144 lots up for sale. 22.10.06 | | | | | |
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