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Arts Diary

This one should be salve for your conscience. Thirty-odd artists have donated works for an online auction that will be undertaken by Saffronart on November 11-12. Works can be viewed at Saffronart’s Mumbai office before the auction, or online at www.saffronart.com. Put together by Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Nature Morte and Saffronart, the proceeds will benefit people affected by the recent floods in Bihar.

Participating artists include a cross section of India’s best and brightest contemporaries including Anju and Atul Dodiya, Anita Dube, A Balasubramaniam, Gargi Raina, G R Iranna, Manisha Parekh, Riyas Komu, Sheba Chachi, T V Santhosh and Vivan Sundaram.

Gallerie Nvya is showcasing the work of 10 women artists in a group show called Dus Mahavidyas or Ten Creative Forces. Curated by Ravi Kumar, it features an interesting selection of works by Shobha Broota, Saba Hasan, Kavita Jaiswal, Arpana Caur, Seema Kohli and Pooja Iranna, among others. Inauguration on November 12 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, the show will later move to the gallery in Friends Colony (East).

Bodhi Art, Mumbai, will open Faultlines, a three-women show by Zarina Hashmi, Manisha Parekh and Dayanita Singh, curated by Gayatri Sinha, on November 14, at Kalaghoda. And at Wadibunder, on the same day, it will preview Nataraj Sharma’s installation piece, Work in Progress, inspired by unfinished construction sites, which will travel to Bodhi Berlin for a January opening.

In New Delhi, especially look out for Sidewalks, an art fotografie show by Laurent Goldstein, Prashant Bhardwaj, Sanjay Nanda, C P Satyajit and Udit Kulshrestha. At the Global Arts Village in Ghitorni, from November 8-16.

Also in the city is an exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Prodish Das Gupta, till November 15 at Kumar Art Gallery in Sainik Farms. A leading member of the Calcutta Group, Das Gupta was a leading sculptor who studied in Paris in the 1930s, and whose works resonate with what he saw around him on his return — most noticeably the horrors of the second world war and the Bengal famine.