Feeling blue

Tumultuous passion and profound feelings" are promised at Apeejay’s Art Fest 2009 at the Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi. This is an annual show by faculty and senior students of Apeejay institutions. On till 8 March.

Art and Design, curated by Peter Nagy and including works by senior contemporary artists, architects and designers in a multitude of media - Bose Krishnamachari, Jagannath Panda, Manit Rastogi, Manish Parekh, Rajiv Saini and many others - is at the Stainless Art Gallery on Mathura Road in Delhi, March 8-13.

Saffronart’s annual spring online auction of modern and contemporary Indian art - the familiar assortment of new and old masters like Subodh Gupta, Manjit Bawa,

S H Raza - is this week, March 11-12. You can see the works along with their estimated prices at www.saffronart.com.

At the Art Mall in west Delhi, Liberation, an enormous showing of 500-plus women artists to mark International Women’s Day, March 8.

Moving away from group shows, there is Desh Ki Awaaz, a show on the reflection in various art forms, classical as much as popular, of a range of themes from Indian life, from movie stars and ministers to corruption and communalism. By architect and writer Gautam Bhatia, via Apparao Galleries, at Delhi’s Triveni Kala Sangam, March 9-19.

Primal colours, bold yet intricate forms and a wild assortment of materials go on fascinating canvases by Nidhi Agarwal, on show at Dhoomimal Gallery in Connaught Place, Delhi, March 7-20.

In contrast, in an exhibition titled Through the Mist, Swiss-Indian artist Lekha will show paintings with a fascinatingly fleeting, sketchy air: portraits, urban moments, landscapes. At the India Habitat Centre’s Open Palm Court in Delhi, March 8-13.