Anyone who has followed the career of MF Husain understands he does nothing that does not profit him. So his…
Our contemporary art as we know it today grew out of a rejection of the imperial vision. It brought out…
The exhibition of paintings mounted by the Palette Gallery of Delhi and the Gandhara Gallery of Kolkata at the Visual…
Indian radical art is probably the best investment there is in the market. Works of radical artists seldom come into…
The recent exhibition organised by the Camlin Art Foundation at the Radisson Hotel was welcome for two reasons. First, it…
The role of international auction houses like Sotheby?s and Christie?s has become murkier with the unfolding of the smuggling of…
Leafing through the Christie?s catalogue of its New York sale of September 2000, I found that lot 32, a red…
First, the CBI slaps a case against Bowring?s and now we have a scam involving the plunder of monuments on…
Good art survives because it embodies a vision of the future. This is especially true of contemporary art. It is…
What gives Indian contemporary art its edge in the global art market today? It is obviously not the technique. I…
In these days of debates on procedures of value-addition to commodities and the process of doing so, many aspects of…
Every investor must have confidence in what he or she invests in. Confidence is built on the knowledge of how…
The democratic tradition of our national movement, which involved the vast mass of our peasantry in the overthrow of British…
The relentless evolution of our contemporary art is something to be proud of. The moneyed classes of our cities are…
Investing is not merely a brute exercise or the gambler?s gambit. It is the activity that emerges out of an…
Saffronart.com is emerging as an effective Indian shop-window for our contemporary art. Their on-line auction came up with some expected…
A careful look at the stock market shows us that events like the Afghan war and that of Iraq that…
The Indian investor appears to be more over confident than most. That is why we find people buying expensive works…
