One of the key members of the iconic Progressive Artists Group — comprising M.F. Husain, F.N. Souza, K.H. Ara and V.S. Gaitonde, S.K. Bakre and H.A. Gade — that gave a new direction to Indian art, Raza muses about art and his latest exhibition. On ...full story
21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From February 22 to May 22, 2013, the Guggenheim Museum in New York presents No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, the inaugural exhibition of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative ...full story
Dangerous or not, the rest of the art world is watching the changes closely. Penelope Benton and Alexandra Clapham, joint artistic directors of Art Month Sydney, the annual festival devoted to enticing the public into commercial galleries, believe ...full story
However, declining sales have allowed artists to focus on the artistic practice, as opposed to the market, and have brought a new era of Indian art, as is evident in the first Kochi-Muziris Biennale. These days ... “Some moved to the outskirts of ...full story
Sydney-based Pacific Trade Commissioner, Caleb Jarvis, says it is paying dividends. JARVIS: In three years we have helped sell over $220,000 worth of sales for Pacific Island artists and we are very, very pleased about that. (Cheering). GARRETT: Giles ...full story
Thirty-seven artists from seven Pacific Island nations have launched the most broad-ranging exhibition of contemporary Pacific art ever mounted in Australia. Jemima Garrett reports that the Maketi Ples exhibition opened in Sydney before 200 people in ...full story
NEW YORK—Even the hustle and bustle of crowds at The Metropolitan Museum of Art recedes into the calm gravitational pull of the Birds in the Art of Japan exhibition that just opened at The Sackler Wing Galleries for the Arts of Japan. ... two early ...full story
An array of curators, critics and academics in the 20th century worked to codify a tidy, sequential history of that transformative era's art, overlooking, ignoring and marginalizing scores of artists whose work didn't fit their narrative. A little more ...full story
Visual artist Mattar bin Lahej, Fair Director of Art Dubai Antonia Carver and Manager of Arts at Dubai Culture Khalil Abdulwahid announcing the details of Sikka 2013 at a Press conference in Dubai on Tuesday. — KT photos by Kiran Prasad. The programme ...full story
On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome, the Japan Foundation, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, and the Museum of Modern Art of Kyoto have organised a major exhibition devoted to Japanese art from the ...full story