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'Quite a character': The man challenging traffickers of Indian art

From 2017 to 2020, law enforcement recovered almost ten times more stolen objects worldwide than the number reported missing, according to Interpol's Works of Art team

Digital festivities

The flip side of virtual events is that one does not get to meet fellow attendees, make new friends, or be surprised by the discovery of authors and artists that one knew nothing about

Art and memory

In the timeless expanse of mythology, the great flood is the source of a vast body of legend, folklore and gods and goddesses

Buried Treasure Entrepreneur and Painter JR Bissell Lends His Historical Expertise to the World of Modern Art

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The Bernadette Schaeffler Collection and the Art of Luxury

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India Art Fair is expanding to become a year-round brand: Jaya Asokan

India Art Fair returns after a year's gap in February 2022

Explained: Why do people want Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa?

An online petition that started as a joke has gone viral, becoming a kind of performance art piece all of its own

Invisible connections

While museums and academia marvel at the art, ritual and belief systems that the objects embody, it is time perhaps to retell the stories that inspired these creations.

Artist in seclusion: My studio is like a temple for me, says Paresh Maity

These are dark times but a beautiful new light will shine on the universe, Maity tells Pavan Lall

He didn't believe in incidental music: Shyam Benegal on Vanraj Bhatia

In a conversation with Ritwik Sharma, Benegal recalls their partnership and what made Bhatia a very special music director

The legacy of Phalke

Trained in art at Bombay's J J School of Art, and Baroda's Maharaja Sayajirao University, he drew on a vast treasure of mythological lore

The art market has held its ground in the time of the pandemic: Kiran Nadar

In a Q&A, the chairperson of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art says people have not only had more time to explore art, but also more money to invest in this segment

NFT digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia goes up for auction

Sophia, who was unveiled in 2016, produced her art in collaboration with Italian digital artist Andrea Bonaceto, known for colourful portraits, some of which depict famous people, such as Elon Musk

Art in a Covid-19 pandemic: Openings delayed, museums embrace technology

The first of a four-part series turns the gaze to some of India's leading art institutions to see how they are keeping the show going

Renowned arts scholar Kapila Vatsyayan dies in Delhi home at 91

Kapila Vatsyayan, renowned scholar of art history, architecture and Indian classical dance, died at her Delhi home on Wednesday. She was 91

What literature tells about people's struggle with faith during pandemic

Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Decameron" - sales of which have reportedly risen during the coronavirus - faith and religion are mocked and satirized

Online storytelling that will have kids entertained and adults nostalgic

Complicated times can be helped by simple measures.

The largest retrospective of Raja Ravi Varma's ubiquitous works goes online

2020 marks 150 years of Raja Ravi Varma's first commissioned painting, a family portrait of Krishna Menon, a sub-judge of the Calicut Court.

Art world wide open

While the confinement is chafing to us Indians as well, the concern in the art world isn't about an absence of footfalls at galleries and museums - as about the loss of business.

After Gaitonde and Raza, who are the new Old Masters of Indian art world?

Subodh Gupta is set to enter the big league but there are others too