Indian contemporary art is doing well abroad. But the Indian market for it is far larger than its market abroad.…
The budgetary exercise has two sides to it. It either inspires people to work harder and more creatively to broaden…
The debate on fakes, like the debate on whether art is a commodity or not, is really meaningful only if…
With art becoming an important avenue of investment, the old debate of standards versus money has surfaced again. A number…
We live in complex times when good and bad news often come together. The art world, being part of life,…
I have often wondered how best to present prices of art so that the investor gets a comprehensive picture of…
Francis Newton Souza was born in 1924 in Goa. He was a student of the JJ School of Art in…
The evolution of the art market as investment has been a boon for creative expression in our country. More than…
As we have seen in the last few days, speculators are not the best indicators for what is good for…
The sale of a 1905 painting of Picasso, ?Boy With A Pipe? for a record $104.2 million (Rs 466 crore…
Today I notice that a number of galleries are trying to avoid the difficult task of finding good artists and…
With the nose-dive in stocks and shares and the more or less permanent regression one sees in the economies of…
Investment is not merely following stock market trends and just fishing for what may be there under the water. The…
We all know death will claim us one day. But still we live our daily lives as if we are…
Over 80 works of contemporary Indian art had come up for sale at Sotheby?s and Christie?s in New York on…
The growing importance of Indian contemporary art on the global art scene is evident from the fact that both the…
Art worth investing in reflects the spirit of the time. Today much that is contemporary and creative is under attack…
On March 25, Christie?s will test the 2004 prices for Indian contemporary painting at the Rockefeller Centre in New York.…
