Topic: Indian art
Vijay Kumar, the art blogger & enthusiast who helped Modi bring back 157 artefacts from US
The US handed over 157 artefacts and antiquities during PM Modi’s three-day visit. India Pride Project co-founder S. Vijay Kumar played a big role in ‘hunting’ these down.
How love, war and Mughal fine art inspired Kangra painting
In ‘Painting in the Kangra Valley’, Vijay Sharma analyses how Mughal traditions influenced paintings of the Guler and Kangra courts.
Nepotism is key in musical gharanas too. But anger only for Sushant Singh Rajput
Sushant Singh Rajput’s death put Bollywood’s nepotism in spotlight. But feudal sites with the power to break young careers have been the hallmark of classical gharanas too.
ArtChainIndia, a peer-support movement helping artists tide over the Covid crisis
The social media initiative encourages artists to sell their work directly on Instagram & support fellow artists by buying their work.
Jamini Roy, one of India’s ‘national treasures’ who never sold paintings for more than Rs 350
Considered the father of modern Indian art, Jamini Roy was always inspired by rural India and rejected his training to discover his own artistic style.
A McKinsey executive built a 1,000-piece Indian art collection. Now he’s selling
Christie’s in New York will auction 83 works, with an additional 70 lots up for sale in an online auction. The estimate of the auctions is $4.9 million.
Uday Shankar: Father of modern Indian dance who never learnt how to dance
Uday Shankar, the pioneer of Indian non-classical dance forms who enthralled western audiences with his unique style, died this day in 1977.
Celebrating Nandalal Bose, artist who rejected everything British & designed India’s constitution
The face of Swadeshi artistic movement, the Bengal School of Art, Bose projected Indian subjects in his art that drew from the Bengali folk traditions.
Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Kali’ fetches a record Rs 26.4 crore
Mehta surpassed his previous record of the 1994 Untitled painting (Woman on Rickshaw) which was sold for Rs 22.99 crore.
In Pakistan, a state of fear among children—inspectors enter schools to ensure Quran reading
Magistrates accompanied by rifle-bearing policemen are interrogating 12-year-olds. Their teachers are asked to stand silently in the corner.
Bezos, Branson & Musk — Are billionaires popularising space travel or just on an ego trip?
Jeff Bezos will travel to the edge of space in his New Shepard aircraft — more than a week after billionaire Richard Branson defeated him in a fast developing space race.