India art summit 2008
22 nd –24 th August, 2008
Hall Nos. 8 and 9
Pragati Maidan (ITPO)
New Delhi, India The art fair will house 34 of the best exhibitiors of Indian art representing over 12 regions from India & overseas. , .. (read more)
India Art Summit to hard sell country's work ---READ NEWS
In Galleries: Duet show by artist Sneh Gangal and Rajesh Shukla at Travancore art gallery 'heart of the secret' from 1st of august to 7th of august.
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Painting Point: indian art summit showed many talented artists art works. i was a good effort from galleries all ovver india to show art to the people.see picst>>
Call for Artists: Soap Box Prints 2 - Prints, Politics and Democracy American Print Alliance - Peach Tree City, GA USA United States of America
Soap Box Prints 2: Prints, Politics & Democracy - Enter your prints, paperworks and artists' books in our new traveling exhibition. Show how prints express the rights and responsibilities of democracy and inspire people to defend freedoms, serve in elected office, vote, demonstrate and take part in political life. The exhibition itself will demonstrate that prints can be an influential part of the democratic process. ... .(read more) .
ARTICLES ON ART
From Print edition: The Ancient Walk-About Way Of Adi Da -by Rajesh Shukla
Adi Da Samraj is a distinctive spiritual teacher, philosopher, and artist. His divine teachings are a light to humanity.
.(read more) A Conversation With Prabhakar Kolte - Rajesh shukla
Q-Kolte Ji, what you think about present scenario of contemporary modern art in India ? The face of art has been changing but no one knows where it is heading what approach it will pursue? ....(read more)
Indian art is a racket.
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A reliable ('respectable' would be stretching its meaning) international Indian art dealer recently told me that .(read more)
Art is an investment today, says Tina Ambani The changing "economic environment" has brought about a transformation in the mindset of the people and art is considered an "investment" today, says actress-turned-art-collector Tina Ambani.......
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Bantamweight (54kg) The bout between Russia's Vodopyanov and Kumar turned out to be the biggest surprise > more
THE ETERNAL FLAME
On the promise of eternity
10 August 2008 – 5 October 2008
A project by Burkhard Meltzer and Sabine Schaschl “Eternity” is one of those words we use without really having a concept of what they refer to. As an existential experience of our life-time and a metaphysical idea of something “beyond time”
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Revealed: the art Damien Hirst failed to sell
On the eve of Sotheby's auction of almost 300 new works by the British artist, we disclose the extent of unsold stock held by his London gallery White Cube .... read more
China bans loans to show on Cultural Revolution The Asia Society is told the subject is too sensitive in Olympic year
The Chinese government has attempted to censor an exhibition ..read more
9 Scripts from a Nation at War 9 Scripts from a Nation at War
13 June – 25 August 2008
9 Scripts from a Nation at War is a ten-part video installation by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer that responds to the conditions and questions that have arisen during the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. .... read more
J Swaminathan And The Story Of Indian Modern Art Then And Now Swaminathan's contribution to Indian contemporary art is no doubt great. The man who started new debates in art and aesthetics in India has not yet received his dues. ...read more The Mystical Art Of Wassily Kandinsky-By Kathleen Karlsen Modern artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), an adherent to the doctrines of Theosophy, set out to accomplish the task of looking
beyond the self to the universal so that he could express himself and be renewed simultaneously. One of Kandinsky's early works, Landscape Near Murnau with Locomotive (1909) is indicative in many ways of the later abstractions which were to ..read more
Featured Books: Hindu Tantra Yoga
by Rajesh Kumar Shukla
hindu tantra yoga sheds light on hindu tantrik system and its philosophy.
Featured Books: Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by Rajesh Kumar Shukla
Book covers thirteen contemporary artists art in the light of spiritual in art.
Idealism - Thou Are The Biggest Enemy of God and Man
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By Awdhesh Singh ‘The artist is a creator, a miniature version of God' -interview with Ramachandran What does spirituality mean to you?
I look at art as a way to find the underlying structure of all that I see --- whether a tree, a human figure, a rock. .read more
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Abhinav Bindra shows his medal as he stands with silver medallist Zhu Qinan and bronze medallist Henri Hakkinen.
Abhinav Bindra: India's Goldfinger
he final shot from Abhinav Bindra's rifle may not have been heard outside the packed hall in the Beijing Shooting Range Complex on Monday morning. But its bang was loud enough to lift the spirit of a billion-plus Indians back home.
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Andy Warhol, Witch, 1980, Poloroid photograph (Polacolor 2), 4.25 x 3.375 inches, Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums, Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program.
Sotheby's To Move Its Asian Art Sales To Asia
Sotheby's said it will cease holding auctions of Asian contemporary art in New York and 'consolidate' them instead in Hong Kong, with biannual sales in the Asian city. .(read more)
Krishnamurti is a neo Buddhist in his application of ideas. He bangs every idea of mysticism, spiritualism, god, soul, ideology, etc with logic ......(read more)
FROM GITA :
"even they that are born of sin,even women,traffickers,and serif, if they turn to me, come to the supreme path: be assured, O, sone of Kunti, that none who is devoted to me is lost"... (read more)
Semiotics - Signs and the City by Leeto Lee Semiotics is the study of how meaning is socially created with signs, created by whom, and for whom. The topic has scope that encompasses between a scientific discipline and a world-view. The term is derived from the Greek word seemeiootikee, meaning the study of signs, what they represent or signify, and how we act and think in their universe.............. (read more) Capitalism,Socialism and Interventionism - Open and Closed Systems -
By Robert A. Meyer Although there have many "isms" to designate the various social systems that have existed throughout history there are basically only three. They are Capitalism, Socialism and Interventionism. .... (read more)
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