Mankind has a powerful instinct for levelling things. This is what preserves us as the human race. Otherwise, we may…
Recently there has been a spate of exhibitions and auctions of art in the capital. Despite the recession, people are…
Bowrings are selling the household effects of Ms Dhanalakshmi Fordyce at the Taj West End in Bangalore on 12 December.…
The Saffronart auction on the Net has given us some interesting results. Some of them are predictable. The Mumbai group…
The exhibition of the works, mainly acrylic paintings, of Vandana Rakesh at the Dhoomimal Art Centre is worth a visit…
It is evident from the results of the Bowring?s auction of November 20 that the colonial and dowdy Raj taste…
The art market, like every other type of market, has three elements to it: the producer, the buyer and the…
India probably has one of the world?s most powerful iconographic traditions, which undoubtedly owes a great deal to the fact…
Gogi Saroj Pal?s oil on canvas Mahasnan One of the major problems that the collectors of contemporary art face is…
The auction house of Bowring?s, with its rather shaky start with works that were contentious, has now come up with…
I have always been a supporter of the drive to document. In the case of Bollywood memorabilia, it was the…
The Nayika is perhaps the most pedestrian theme since the 18th and 19th century miniatures, to be outdone only by…
Some time back, in this column on September 8, before the Christie?s New York sale of September 19, we took…
Art, the world over, is a good investment today. The reason, of course, is the derelictions and scams that characterise…
Sridhar Iyer?s exhibitions at the Sridharani gallery and the Lalit Kala Akademi at New Delhi, on till October 30, are…
It is dangerous for the art investor to go fishing for fads and fashions. A cool head is required to…
I have always considered the work of MF Husain, especially his oils on canvas, the currency of contemporary Indian art…
It is one thing to say that there is no recession in the art market and quite another to expect…
