Art World
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Art logistics has come a long way since the time Ashoka pillars were shifted to Delhi
Moving fragile, expensive art requires more than just bubble wrap. It is a specialised, complex, painstaking work that has grown into a niche industry in India.
Kamayani Sharma
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Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits reveal the darker side of 1960s America
On the surface, the works may look like a tribute to a much-loved icon, but themes of death, decay and even violence lurk within these canvases.
Harriet Fletcher, The Conversation
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In India, the world of NFTs suffers from the same inequalities as the world of traditional art
Although the NFT art market in India is still small, it hasn’t delivered the degree of egalitarianism it promised.
Kamayani Sharma
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Bad loans of Rs 10 lakh crore been written off as ‘muft ki revdi’: Varun Gandhi’s dig at Modi
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Madras High Court ruled that a temple was a Buddhist site. How will this impact mosque-temple cases?
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With ‘Suspended in Time’, Ali Kazim addresses the decolonisation debate in the art world
The exhibition engages with the South Asian collections of the Ashmolean Museum that had once been used to showcase the British empire.
Farida Ali
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A historic collection of Indian and Pakistani art is gathering dust in Delhi
In a small room of the Ghalib Academy lie, neglected and forgotten, the works of legends like MF Husain and Sadequain.
Kamayani Sharma
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What did the Cold War have to do with a computer art exhibition sent to India in the 1970s?
At a time when the country had merely 140 computers, a show with works of graphic artists and animators was put on view for almost a month. Why and for whom?
Kamayani Sharma
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NFTs by chimpanzees is the latest chapter in a long history of animals in the art world
There have been important questions raised about the ethics of asking beasts to make works conforming to human expectations of what art should be.
Keri Cronin, The Conversation
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In Subodh Gupta’s paintings of forest fires, our ecological fears and fates get conflated
The global artist’s ‘Lonely City’ series calls attention to the burning of Earth’s lungs.
Bharati Chaturvedi
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On display in London, natural history paintings by an obscure 19th-century Bengali artist
Haludar’s works include depictions of moloch gibbon, a sloth bear and a long-tailed macaqu.
Malini Roy
The Reel
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Nita Ambani appointed to board of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum
Ambani, 57, was elected to become an honorary trustee of the museum, a statement by the Metropolitan Museum of Art said.
Scroll Staff
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The 16th century erotic revolution that made Italy accept nudity in high art
In the Middle Ages, beautiful figures in art were mostly draped. Rare exceptions such as Botticelli’s ‘The Birth of Venus’ were kept for private viewing.
James Grantham Turner, Aeon
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Ambedkar in South Africa: With a new installation, Riyas Komu creates an archive of resistance, hope
The artist’s new work ‘Fourth World’ at the Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg brings together the politics of the word, history and symbolism.
Dilip M. Menon
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