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Indian Modern and contemporary market treading water? ArtTactic reports decline
CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET TRENDS AUCTIONS ArtTactic recently released their spring 2012 auction analysis of Indian modern and contemporary art sales. After twenty straight months of descent, the March...
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Kiran Nadar Museum of Art: Education priority for India’s first private...
PRIVATE PHILANTHROPIC ART MUSEUMS INDIA Kiran Nadar, the well-known collector of blue chip Indian art, opened the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in 2010. It is India’s first philanthropic,...
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India’s largest steel sculpture: Kiran Nadar unveils new Subodh Gupta...
INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART DELHI ANTI-WAR ART On 20 April 2012, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art unveiled its most recent acquisition, blue-chip Indian artist Subodh Gupta’s Line of Control. The colossal...
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Knowledge larger than life: Indian artist group Raqs’ big book Vancouver...
A university gallery in Vancouver, Canada is home to a education-influenced installation by Indian artist group Raqs Media Collective. Opening in June 2012, Audain Gallery of Simon Fraser University...
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Asian Art Museum’s “Phantoms of Asia”: 5 Indian artists contemplate tradition
In a survey exhibition at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, five contemporary Indian artists create works that talk with the artifacts they sit next to. “Phantoms of Asia – Contemporary Awakens the...
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Experimenter’s 2012 Curators’ Hub probes South Asian art practice – event alert
A two day conference dedicated to exploring questions of curatorship in Indian contemporary art will be held in a Kolkata gallery. On 27 and 28 July 2012, Experimenter in Kolkata will hold the second...
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Delhi’s artist-led United Art Fair opposes ‘monopolised aesthetic’
Organisers of the United Art Fair bypass galleries to hold an artist-only event in India’s New Delhi. The artist-centred United Art Fair, which aims to move away from the “monopolisation of...
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Indian Highway: Opening borders of dialogue between China, India – round up
Art Radar takes a look at the similarities, contrasts and controversies surrounding the fifth leg of “Indian Highway” at Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA). “Indian Highway”, an...
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How do time gaps affect urban spaces? Young Indian artist Prajakta Potnis...
Indian artist Prajakta Potnis explores intimate and public spaces of Mumbai and Kolkata through the meshes of time. The third solo presentation of Prajakta Potnis with The Guild gallery in Mumbai,...
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Emerging Indian artists to benefit from new digital platform – stART&D
India’s newest online art resource aims to boost the country’s “emerging, original artistic talent.” Slated to launch gradually in 2013, stART&D will be an online forum focusing on contemporary...
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State of art appreciation in Pakistan – The Express Tribune
Follow CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET SOUTH ASIA Like many Asian countries, Pakistan has seen a wave of international interest in its contemporary artists. Some critics remain sceptical about this...
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India Art Fair Founder Neha Kirpal sees galleries “upping the game”–...
Follow INTERVIEW INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES COLLECTOR EDUCATION On 17 February 2012, India Art Fair Founder and Director Neha Kirpal sat down with ArtTactic to talk about this year’s fair. She also...
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Lado Sarai’s Art Nite: one night, 9 New Delhi art galleries – event alert
Follow INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART DISTRICT NEW DELHI Lado Sarai, one of India’s newest gallery districts, is holding nine exhibition openings in one night on 5 April 2012, an event certain to attract art...
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Lado Sarai: New Delhi’s “new high street of art”– AFP
Follow INDIA CONTEMPORARY ART DISTRICTS GALLERIES AFP released an article in December 2011 on Lado Sarai, an art district that has sprung up in the southwest of New Delhi. Art Radar takes a closer...
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Indian art collective WALA wins FICA Public Art Grant 2011 with performance art
Follow INDIA CONTEMPORARY ART GRANTS PERFORMANCE Early in February 2012, FICA (Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art) announced that New Delhi-based art collective WALA had been awarded their 2011...
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Curiosity bags Indian artist Navin Thomas 2011 ŠKODA Prize
Follow INDIAN ARTISTS AWARD CEREMONIES The ŠKODA Prize is fast becoming the most prestigious contemporary art award in the Indian visual art scene, featuring the work of younger artists across the...
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India Art Fair’s Collectors’ Circle educates new buyers
Follow INDIA ART COLLECTOR FAIR EDUCATION Heading into its fourth edition, the India Art Fair, formally the India Art Summit, is launching Collectors’ Circle, an ongoing membership programme which...
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Role of the curator in maturing Indian art scene – interview Vidya Shivadas
Follow INDIA CONTEMPORARY ART SCENE CURATORS Guest writer Rajesh Punj shines some light on a maturing Indian art scene in this interview with Vidya Shivadas, Researcher at the Foundation for Indian...
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What is ahead for contemporary Asian art, 2012 and beyond? Part II
Follow CONTEMPORARY ART TRENDS CHINESE GALLERIES GLOBALISATION For the second post in the Art Radar art trends series we take a look at changes to contemporary art galleries. The past decade has seen...
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India Art Fair 2012: For international galleries, India focus among emerging...
Follow EVENTS CONTEMPORARY ART MARKET The India Art Fair, formerly named the India Art Summit, closed its doors for the fourth time on 29 January 2012. An estimated crowd of 80,000 came to see over...
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