“Fusion is the Himalayan story. Actually, it's the story of art, period. For generations, we studied cultures as big isolated units. Now we're learning how they intersect, interact, serendipitously echo one another.”
Read the New York Time's museum review of the Rubin Museum of Art.
Macworld magazine has announced the 7th annual Macworld Conference & Expo Digital Art Contest. The contest is in conjunction with the annual Macworld Expo in January, in San Francisco, California. Deadline is November 18, 2004.
The 2003 gallery hosts an eclectic group of inspiring winners.
No, you don't have to own a Mac to enter or win. Just skills.
“In the period from 1500 to 1800, Asians and Europeans often met as equals. Indeed, at centers of dominance such as Ming and Qing China, Tokugawa Japan and Mughal India, the encounter took place on Asian terms.”
Fascinating art and history on exhibit in London.
Via Jasmeen Patheja
“The largest network of creative talent in India,” touts this site. If you are interested in paintings, sculptures, prints or handicrafts, this could be home to you.
These are Ajit Vahadane's lofty goals for the network:
Let us appreciate everything that truly touches our heart and respond to it positively. Let us get into positive criticism and discussion if we disagree with others and their style of works so that all of us grow together and enrich our lives to the fullest.
The site isn't the easiest to navigate and not all the content that one would expect to see after clicking an internal link appears to be there. I hope they are working on that. But you will find gems like the one below under individual galleries for artists. This one is by Somenath Maity.
According to The New York Times, auction houses in the US are preparing for major sales this November. Painting and photography will go on the block. Who is selling and who is buying? But, more importantly, how are these auction houses offering sellers such high guarantees? It's a world I know nothing about.
“Baroness Marion Lambert, wife of Baron Philippe Lambert, a member of a Belgian banking family, is parting with her entire collection of contemporary photographs at a smaller auction house, Phillips de Pury & Company, in collaboration with Philippe Segalot, a Manhattan dealer.”
She hopes to fetch $10 million dollars for about 300 photographs. If you have friends who are photographers, it might make sense for you to support their work by buying their prints. Just an idea.
And speaking of auctions, I am sending two of my earliest black & white prints to Delhi for an auction to benefit an eye institution called Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai. I'll post more details about that here in a couple of days.