Uma Nair

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The fading art of collecting

Where are the collectors? I only read and hear about buyers, there are no collectors anymore. After all collectors collect silently for years, they have a passion about their choices.

The ghost of colour behind the scenes

Perhaps The Oberoi isn’t quite the place one would visit to see an art exhibition, but Saffronart’s Gallery debut with Gaitonde is a treasure trove of masterpieces.

An intriguing play of light and shadow

Could an artist create three charcoal works born of an academic tradition without being academic?

Triumph of Tyeb’s vision

While a lot of contemporary art in India remains in a narcissistic bubble dedicated to its own self-reflexive trajectory, and some artists making laughing stock of themselves with derivative fluff, a historic show of Tyeb Mehta at Vadehras curated by critic and curator Yashodhara Dalmia will throw light on art emerging from struggled zones of experience through the abstractions to where it really bleeds.

Conflicted family on canvas

“It’s hard to directly face reality.

Geometric twists express the pulse of life

In the track of time this year, it was Pooja Iranna’s show which made you stop and think.

Stupendous closure to 10-yr art haul

Saffronart’s Winter Auction last week, threw up records and insights and the reason for celebrating a 10-year haul in the service of online auctions worldwide.

Lose yourself in ‘yesterday’

At the Visual Arts Gallery, a small showing by Chawla Art Gallery brings into focus a suite of oils by Sanjay Bhattacharya that celebrate the magnificence of Salvador Dali and the stain glass windows

Singh draws ‘real’ inspiration

The rustling, filigree like work at Vadehras invites your gaze and stare. In the quietude of her silent style, Arpita Singh has emerged as one of the most important international contemporary painters working today. Her recent works on canvas, and a brilliant series of watercolours on paper echoes the majestic moods of the high

Saffronart unveils a narrative in brushstrokes

Saffronart unveils its most ambitious offering at its Winter Sale December 8-9, with Arpita Singh’s mural “Wish Dream” created by the artist in 2001. Sixteen canvases sprinkled with flowers, people, aeroplanes, and central figures, say very little about the reach and impact of this historic work. When she created it, she was the first artist to discuss the role of male conception.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.