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Tips on navigating the art world and picking a piece close to your heart

Buying art can be a challenge with the plethora of choices available. Do your research before hand and ask questions, so that you end up buying something you will be happy with

Noa Eshkol to Arp­ita Akhanda: India Art Fair back with more vibrant canvas

The fair is the country's biggest exhibition of contemporary and modern art from South Asia

Murals: Great style statements that breathe life into your living spaces

While they work much better than plain paint; you need to get a fix on the theme, size and material you want and the artist's contractual obligations before you put the money on the table

Unfazed collectors drive strong sales on Art Basel Miami's first day

New York dealer, Marianne Boesky, sold multiple pieces in her booth, including a resin-on-wood piece by Donald Moffett for $160,000

Coffee With BS: Anjolie Ela Menon makes a case for gender equality in art

The huge prices in Indian art today are for the 'eight great big daddies of art, so maybe one should wait one's turn in the queue', Menon tells Pavan Lall

Christie's beats Covid blues, sees 13% growth on strong Asian demand

Online sales for all categories including watches have also been strong. These timepieces drew as much as $12 million in sales in Dubai

JMV Turner's famed British seascape up for auction, says report

The painting that can be viewed at Soth­eby's London auction house is ex­p­ected to sell for between £4 million and £6 million ($5.5 million to $8.3 million.)

Artist Jitish Kallat's search for an interesting space called the ordinary

In this extraordinary time, Kallat tells Pavan Lall about the interesting space called ordinary that he's fiercely in search of

The life and loves of Raza

A biography highlights some of the lesser known facets of the great artist

Non-fungible tokens: Latest craze among crypto-rich art collectors

Retail investors should stay away given the high volatility

Home is where the art is, whether it's a masterpiece or a lesser creation

The first rule is to pick up something you can live with for a lifetime. If you're into collecting as an investment, what matters as much as the artwork is its creator and previous owners

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

Portrait of an artist's friend: An Amrita Sher-Gil rediscovered

Sher-Gil's hitherto unknown portrait will lead Christie's March auction

Portraits of the artist

A collection of interviews with the great Frida Kahlo captures the many facets of her spontaneous, luminous creativity

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

Provenance matters: How proof of ownership weighs in on value of art

Spotlight on provenance ahead of two big auctions

This art investment startup is luring scores of investors in the pandemic

Think of it as the art market's version of the popular trading platform Robinhood Markets, which lets users buy a fraction of a company's share for a few dollars

Art paints a cheerful picture, hits giddy prices amid Covid-19

That the Indian market is faring well is a tribute to its fundamental strength built up over the last decade

The forgotten Bombay School

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

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