Sikh guru’s portrait to go under hammer [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 21, Hits: 354]
A large oil on canvas portrait of the tenth and final Sikh Guru Guru Gobind Singh will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s New York Indian Art auction on September 17 2009...
Art | New Delhi | India
Updated On: 9/11/2009
Tags: Sikh Guru Guru Gobind Singh, Sotheby New York Indian Art auction, Guru Gobind Singh, Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh holy book, Sikhism, Mountains, Artist Hari Singh, Hazur Saheb Gurdwara in Nanded, Painting, Europen, British and American collectors, Maharashtra, Ten Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak, Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Maithili Parekh, Deputy director at Sotheby
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Banaras forgets Tagore anniversary [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 123, Hits: 801]
The cultural town of Varanasi simply forgot the great poet, who once had had close connections with the city...
Art | Varanasi | India
Updated On: 5/7/2009
Tags: Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Cultural Town Varanasi, Poet Rabindranath Tagore, Bharat Kala Bhavan, Bharat Kala Parishad, Indian Art Museum, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian University Act, Dr Annie Besant, Lokmanya Tilak, Dr Radhrakrishna, Sir Syed, Aligarh Muslim University, Viswabharti, foot Prints of Gandhi, Indias Freedom Struggle, Mahamana Malaviya Heritage, Varanasi
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Unique portrait of Shakespeare unveiled [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 171, Hits: 1039]
A heritage group said Monday it had uncovered a 300-year-old portrait of English playwright William Shakespeare...
Art | London | United Kingdom
Updated On: 3/10/2009
Tags: Authentic Image, Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Infra Red Reflectography Analysis, Cobbe Family, Henry Wriothesley, National Portrait Gallery
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Chinese bidder "won't pay" for looted bronzes [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 165, Hits: 1057]
A Chinese art collector identified himself on Monday as the winning bidder in last week's Paris auction...
Art | Beijing | China
Updated On: 3/2/2009
Tags: Chinese Art Collector, Paris auction, Christie, Cai Mingchao, Beijings Summer Palace, Chinese Person, Cultural Artefacts, Cultural Heritage China, Kate Malin, President Nicolas Sarkozy, Anglo-French Forces, Spokeswoman Jiang Yu, Private Foundation in China, Bronze Sculptures, designer Yves Saint Laurent
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Collective' organises Intent - IV at Gurgaon [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 158, Hits: 1093]
As many as 25 artists are displaying their "collective" strength at Gallery Alternatives...
Art | Gurgaon | India
Updated On: 2/13/2009
Tags: Gallery Alternatives, Collective Intent - IV, traditional Indian Motifs, S.H. Raza, Krishen Khanna, Himmat Shah, Manu Parekh, Rajeev Lochan, Sanjay Bhattacharya, G.R. Iranna, Ranjeeta Kant, B. Bodh, Trupti Patel, Krishna Murari, Narendra Pal Singh, Kunal, Mridul Chandra, Nandita Chaudhuri, Kitty Hazuria, Shalini Saran, Sunaina Bhalla, Tapas Biswas, Kosal Kumar, Viky Arya, Karan Khanna, Sanjay Singh, Kavita Jaiswal and Ashwani Kumar Prithviwasi, Acrylic and Oil
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Rajasthan royal art, Indian bio-diversity to be showcased in Britain [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 164, Hits: 1162]
A relatively unknown genre of religious and traditional court paintings from Rajasthan and the Indian bio-diversity...
Art | New Delhi | India
Updated On: 2/4/2009
Tags: Genre of Religious, Traditional Court Paintings, Indian Bio-Diversity, British Museum, HSBC Bank, Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, British Museum, Naina Lal Kidwai, Historians Debra Diamond, Catherin Glynn, Myths of Hindu Deities, Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Royal Botanic Garden, Indian Culture
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Art show traces history of portrait in Indian art [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 140, Hits: 1439]
Portraits are rare sightings in art exhibitions these days. But that wasn't the case in the early part of the twentieth century when portraiture was a major part of the art of painters...
Art | Mumbai | India
Updated On: 2/2/2009
Tags: History of Portrait, Art Exhibitions, Museum Gallery Kala Ghoda, Art Collectors Dinesh Thacker, Modern Indian Art, M V Dhurandhar, Sir JJ School of Art, G S Haldankar, G Deuskar, G V Chandwadkar, European Painters, Stragliati, Walter Langhammer, K H Ara, K K Hebbar, V S Gaitonde, Art School, Painter Raja Ravi Varma, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Baburao Painter, V A Mali, Calcutta School of Art
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World's largest pavement art [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 166, Hits: 1043]
More than 2,000 children have created the world's biggest piece of pavement art...
Art | Transylvania | Romania
Updated On: 1/23/2009
Tags: Worlds Biggest Pavement Art, World Record, World Records Academy, Pavement Art, School Game, Boxes of Chalk
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Miniatures beat the art market downturn [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 85, Hits: 1070]
Tracing a contrarians trend, amid a slowdown in the art market, Indian miniature paintings...
Art | Kolkata | India
Updated On: 12/29/2008
Tags: Indian Miniature Paintings, Art Market, Centuries-Old Miniatures, Indian Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Boom, Indian Collectors, Maithili Parekh, Mughal, Deccan, Rajput, Gita Govinda, Craftsmanship
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Artist Manjit Bawa dies after three years in coma [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 130, Hits: 1041]
Eminent painter Manjit Bawa died in the national capital early Monday after a prolonged illness...
Art | New Delhi | India
Updated On: 12/29/2008
Tags: Brain Hemorrhage, Eminent Painter Manjit Bawa, Dhuri in Punjab, Figurative Painter, Bengals Kalighat, Jogen Choudhury, Art Critic Uma Nair, Sufi Mysticism, Iconography, World of Miniatures, Anupam Poddar, Fantastic Exhibition of Jewels, Bodhi Art Gallery, Indian Art History, London School of Printing, College of Art in New Delhi, Screen Printer
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