Articles for Indian Artists

Is it time for an Indian Banksy? The list of issues in need of public scrutiny is growing by the day but Indian street art continues to play it safe
1 day, 4 hours ago

Is it time for an Indian Banksy? The list of issues in need of public scrutiny is growing by the day but Indian street art continues to play it safe

The Hindu  

Some years ago, in the U.S., I remember attending a charity auction organised by the Philadelphia Arts League. It is hard to qualify Banksy’s work — site-specific and done at night — as art or vandalism; but as a critic noted, it is the most essential form of public vandalism. Evocative messaging For the past decade, despite increasing popularity and …

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The State of Indian Art: How Cultural Freedom Survives Despite Government Control
2 weeks, 3 days ago

The State of Indian Art: How Cultural Freedom Survives Despite Government Control

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 25, 2024 12:00 IST - 9 MINS READ Some time ago, government-friendly news portals exerted a lot of energy “fact-checking” and, in the process, denied a viral social media post that claimed that the gigantic “Statue of Unity” sculpture of Vallabhbhai Patel had developed “cracks” and was in danger of collapsing. Apart from their perennial structural precariousness, …

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‘The Big Book of Indian Art’ — an encyclopaedic look at more than 300 Indian artists
1 month ago

‘The Big Book of Indian Art’ — an encyclopaedic look at more than 300 Indian artists

The Hindu  

The first time I heard of Bina Sarkar Ellias was in 2017, while writing an article on her daughter Yuki Ellias’ play. While it devotes 22 pages to art from 20,000 BC till 1854 — when, after the Great Exhibition in London, the School of Industrial Art was set up by the British in Kolkata to help train Indian artists …

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Aditya Veera Venkatesh: From Podcasting to Grammy Membership
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Aditya Veera Venkatesh: From Podcasting to Grammy Membership

The Hindu  

Life seems to have come full circle for Aditya Veera Venkatesh. “I spoke with a wide range of artists, including Grammy winners, nominees, and those aspiring to win in my podcast, Stalwarts Of Music with Aditya Veera, launched in 2021,” says Aditya from Bengaluru. Two members who’ve been guests on my podcast, noticing my work, recommended me last year.” As …

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Noida, Gr Noida artists urge residents to get out and vote
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Noida, Gr Noida artists urge residents to get out and vote

Hindustan Times  

Noida and Greater Noida residents cast their vote today, in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Shinjini Kulkarni, Kathak dancer, resident of Sector 40, says, “I have a performance at India International Centre today and hence I’ve planned to cast my vote first thing in the morning. I’m a retired colonel, and feel that the young should take part in voting …

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Progressive Artists’ Group at 75: Rebels with a cause
1 year, 10 months ago

Progressive Artists’ Group at 75: Rebels with a cause

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 09, 2023 10:40 IST The Progressive Artists’ Group, founded in 1947, belonged to a moment of transition and optimism. However, when Souza, Raza, and Bakre left for Europe after the group’s first exhibition in Bombay in 1948, several new members were added, including A.A. Raiba, N.P. As Souza wrote in the group’s catalogue of 1949: “ur art …

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India at 75 | Timeline: Art
2 years, 4 months ago

India at 75 | Timeline: Art

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 15, 2022 18:00 IST The journey of post-Independence Indian art is an ongoing dialogue between past and present. 1978: Kala Yatra, an effort by Sara Abraham and Husain to sell art at affordable prices as well as showcase lesser known artists, holds first show in Mumbai. Gaitonde becomes the first Indian contemporary painter whose work sells for …

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\'World needs art\'
2 years, 9 months ago

\'World needs art\'

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: London-based art expert Dr Cleo Roberts-Komireddi has a strong India, and in particular Hyderabad, connection, through marriage with the author and critic Kapil Komireddi, but her interest in art from Asia at large, and specifically India, stretches further back. She began reaching out to artists across south Asia, which she described as “an exciting and varied art scene but …

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For the third year, Anish Kapoor leads the Hurun India Art List
3 years, 4 months ago

For the third year, Anish Kapoor leads the Hurun India Art List

Live Mint  

The third edition of the Hurun India Art List is populated with names of the leading Modernist and contemporary artists from the country. For instance, 18 per cent of the artists on the Hurun India Art List 2021 are women and include names such as Nalini Malani and Anjolia Ela Menon. Painting has emerged as the most popular form of …

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Indian crypto currency exchange launches NFT marketplace for Indian artists
3 years, 9 months ago

Indian crypto currency exchange launches NFT marketplace for Indian artists

The Hindu  

Indian cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX has launched a non-fungible tokens marketplace for Indian artists and creators. Indian artists can place their digital assets including art pieces, audio files, videos, and even tweets, for auction over the blockchain-based NFT marketplace to earn royalty thereafter. The company claims this to be India’s first NFT marketplace, and said it will not charge its customers …

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Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art comes home
4 years, 2 months ago

Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art comes home

New Indian Express  

Tell us about the advantages and disadvantages of using a virtual medium for viewing the artworks? While virtual tours can never replicate the sensory experience of viewing an artwork in person, I feel that it comes to a close second. Also, the huge advantage is that virtual tours will enable access to a greater number of audiences and it will …

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How event organiser MadRasana migrated online to help Indian classical music thrive in lockdown
4 years, 3 months ago

How event organiser MadRasana migrated online to help Indian classical music thrive in lockdown

Firstpost  

MadRasana was launched to take Carnatic music to a contemporary audience in novel ways, which have included organising concerts in cafes, theatres, and screening performances on YouTube that experiment with diverse formats When two musicians meet, what do they talk about? After quitting his corporate job four years ago, the former Managing Director at Cognizant, who was also a connoisseur …

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The Indian artists of Roxburgh’s herbarium
4 years, 9 months ago

The Indian artists of Roxburgh’s herbarium

Live Mint  

On a bracing Kolkata morning amidst the winter dahlias, William Dalrymple made his silks-and-jholas audience cringe and then preen. Next he made them rub their eyes in awe as he presented “the unknown treasure trove in your midst”: slide upon slide of jewel-like nature art in the collection of the Central National Herbarium, hidden in the 273-acre Botanical Gardens on …

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Of Rembrandt, his artistic style, and ambition, amidst budding Indo-Dutch relations of the 17th century
5 years, 2 months ago

Of Rembrandt, his artistic style, and ambition, amidst budding Indo-Dutch relations of the 17th century

Firstpost  

A new exhibition at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai is exhibiting 12 works on loan from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, including those by Rembrandt. Rembrandt’s aspiration was to be invited by the courts; “there’s the market,” says Gommans, adding that working for the courts signalled the highest status for painters. “Rembrandt, knowing that he was facing a visual culture …

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Pakistan bans advertisements featuring Indian artists
5 years, 4 months ago

Pakistan bans advertisements featuring Indian artists

India TV News  

Pakistan's electronic media watchdog has banned the airing of The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority circulated a letter dated Aug 14 on Wednesday announcing the ban. Pemra said that it already withdrew the permission for airing Indian channels and content on the directions of the Pakistan Supreme Court in October last year. It said that currently ads of products like …

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Chinese artist seeks to take dulcimer music near and far
5 years, 7 months ago

Chinese artist seeks to take dulcimer music near and far

China Daily  

Chinese dulcimer artist Liu Yuening. Liu, 54, a Chinese dulcimer artist and professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, has made friends all over the world through her performances. "It also serves as a platform for Asian dulcimer artists to go international," Liu says of the association. In January, Liu and some other Chinese dulcimer artists staged performances …

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Indian Life and People in the 19th Century: JP Losty revisits Company paintings in fascinating new book
6 years ago

Indian Life and People in the 19th Century: JP Losty revisits Company paintings in fascinating new book

Firstpost  

Some two hundred years after they were executed, many of these paintings have found their way to collectors Shilpa and Praful Saha, founders of the TAPI Collection, and are now the subject of curator and art historian JP Losty’s catalogue of the same, Indian Life and People in the 19th Century: Company Paintings in the TAPI Collection, published by Roli …

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