Token of Appreciation: NFTs define possession in art world
NFTs are defining sales and possession in the art world, even as the pandemic has brought us India s first blockchain-powered online platform.
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Everydays: The First 5,000 Days by Mike Winkelmann was sold for USD 69.3 million. (Photo| EPS)
Armed with his Crayola white chalk, Canadian actor, author, chalk artist and calligrapher Rajiv Surendra works with quiet confidence. He knows that if he doesn’t like what he is drawing on the wall, all he has to do is just erase it .
Surendra, who is equally at home carving and shaping his own cutting board from wood that he chopped down, weaving cloth from wool of sheep sheared by him, or even re-caning a wicker chair, is drawn to the ephemeral beauty of chalk.
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Rooshad Shroff, at Rooshad Shroff Gallery, Fort
For MGW 2021, architect Rooshad Shroff has teamed up with artist Tanya Goel for Obverse , a limited edition embroidered chairs. Speaking to AD India, Shroff explains, Obverse celebrates embroidered furniture and its intricate technique. Tanya s complementary artwork pays tribute to Indian craftsmanship. It was like translating a painting into embroidery form. This is Shroff s second collaboration with Goel after last year s The Gyaan Project, a charity initiative that also included contributions from BV Doshi, Atul Dodiya and Christian Louboutin. Initially launched to reinvigorate what many felt was Mumbai s fading art scene, the MGW has over the years grown vastly bigger in size and scale. Today, its major challenge is how to lure patrons back to museums after a year spent under Covid s dark shadow. Shroff says the timing is trickier still. On one hand you want footfalls and on the other, you don t want too much crowd and mainta
Small Talk: At home with art
Small Talk: At home with art
ByAnjana VaswaniAnjana Vaswani / Updated: Dec 13, 2020, 06:00 IST
materials, especially jute, to express her creativity
Shortly after the lockdown came into effect, Saloni Doshi, founder, Space118, posted a series of artworks on her social media streams in a bid to support 20 up-and-coming artists that she believed held great promise. So tremendous was the response she received that Geetha Mehra, director of
Sakshi Gallery, suggested Doshi turn the Instagram exhibition into a physical one. The works sold out, and the show titled ‘All Is Not Lost 20:20:20’ was later put up online as it continued to drum up interest among collectors and