As M.F. Husain’s paintings are all set to draw art lovers from across the world, 25 paintings are languishing in a locker of IndusInd Bank’s Lokhandwala branch in Mumbai.

These paintings, which Hussa

M.F. Husain would laugh, tongue-in-cheek, whenever birthday parties were hosted for him as he entered his 88th year.

If a belly dance had been set up for one such evening, he didn’t balk at the idea

Even as intellectuals, celebrities and art lovers continue to mourn the death of M.F. Husain, unidentified men here Friday destroyed the sand sculpture created by an Uttar Pradesh artist to pay tribut

There were milestones aplenty during the life of M.F. Husain, who died on Thursday at London's Royal Brompton Hospital at the age of 95. Here's a chronology:

* Sep 17, 1915: Born in Pandharpur in Mah

He towers over the Indian art world, putting most other artists in the shade. And yet he’s almost child-like at times in his belief that he can repaint the canvas of the world, reorder the universe, a

K. BIKRAM Singh, a filmmaker who made films on Indian artists long before the art boom, has espoused the cause of Husain at a time when the state has chosen to treat him as a pariah. In the Middle Eas

Rs 2.3 crore. Yes, that’s the worth of paintings sold at the Bowring’s contemporary art sale in November 2001. They sold a Gaitonde for Rs 23 lakh, Vivan Sundaram’s work from 1998 that had fetched Rs

Renowned artist M.F. Husain, who died in London on Thursday, had a special relationship with this southern city. Not only did he relish his stays here, Cinema Ghar, an unconventional museum, which he