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Gaitonde, Tyeb Mehta, other modern masters return with AstaGuru's auction

Since the onset of the pandemic, the Indian art auction market has stood its ground through the course of the past one year

Renowned Padma Bhushan awarded painter Laxman Pai dies in Goa

Renowned painter and Padma Bhushan awardee Laxman Pai died at his residence in Goa on Sunday evening, sources close to him said.

With demand up, artists are now busier than before Covid-19 pandemic

With collectors spending more time at home, and spends on luxuries curtailed, art became a natural point of attention

'Hunar Haat' opens for artisans in Delhi amid coronavirus concerns

'Hunar Haat', the Centre's flagship initiative to help the artisans to showcase their products, opened in Delhi amid Covid concerns

Indian creativity in miniature

Book review of Court & Courtship: Indian Miniatures in the TAPI Collection

Kerala govt to offer financial aid to artists struggling due to Covid-19

Kerala govt has announced a financial assistance of Rs 1000 to artists and performers facing crisis during the pandemic as there was no programme or work for them due to the restrictions imposed

Delhi govt to provide stalls at discounted rates to artists, artisans

It has also been decided to give huge concessions to vendors who have food stalls at Delhi Haat and other places, Sisodia said

MF Husain's Voices sets new benchmark for artist; sold at Rs 18.5 cr

The surprise, is not that it took so long to get to this point, but that Voices has established a benchmark at a time of severe financial distress

Branding the arts on a digital stage for a post-pandemic future

Performance venues, museums, and artists don the digital greasepaint, look for new identities, patrons and business models for a post-pandemic future

The difficult life of a Gond painter

Patangarh is a village of artists which owes its artistic legacy to the great Gond artist Jangarh Singh Shyam

The forgotten Bombay School

Bombay School was based on realism, or naturalism, as taught by the colonial mindset that patterned it.

Art enthusiasts are displaying and selling overlooked, affordable art works

Mumbai-based Carpe Arte, started by art consultant Natasha Jeyasingh in 2017, is assisting virtually unknown contemporary artists with sales.

No painter of pretty pictures

If Amitava's early practice was characterised by anger, he has since tempered it with wisdom, yet he remains a chronicler of social wrongs, writes Kishore Singh

The show must go on: Performance artists struggle as gigs go online

Due to the lockdown, artists are turning to online shows but the concept of online concerts are still at a nascent stage making survival difficult for many

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.

Major galleries create a joint online platform to continue celebrating art

The online exhibition platform, In Touch, in its first outing features artists represented by 10 prominent galleries in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Dubai.

So long, Nemai Ghosh; Goodbye, Satish Gujral - gentle men of art

Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's "Boswell"; History will remember Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge

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

Art in 2019 showed record-breaking sales -- and a banana taped to the wall

In the Indian art-scape, Vasudeo S Gaitonde was the undisputed star, bagging the top two spots for the most expensive Indian artworks sold in the year

Kolkata's unusually respectful and discerning attitude to art and artists

Art in Bengal is a reflection in the deepest sense of the way its people feel - about nature, political troubles or social strife