EDITOR’S NOTE
The word ‘design’ encapsulates both a tangible, visual, material entity as well as an abstract order and an area that continues to baffle me. What exactly constitutes design? These two connotations of the word define design in its noun and…
Editor’s Note
Who is the market maker? Forces in Tandem Market: The ‘taboo’ word – Who drives the wheels in the art market? Collectors, galleries, artists, dealers, power brokers, savvy investors, flippers, fakes or the fund managers!! Does the bullish market follow…
An Af’fair’ to Remember – Will Ramsay
Will Ramsay is the owner of Affordable Art Fairs, Pulse Art Fairs and the co-owner of Art HK and India Art Fair. Bhavna Kakar met him at the launch event of Art HK 2011 and had a brief tete-a-tete on his footing in the art world….
Other Places, Other Faces
Bangalore is now seen as the third major art centre in India along with New Delhi and Mumbai: a city with scarcely an art market, or long history of professional modern art practice and few galleries. The Phantom Lady looks at the vibrant alternative art scene in the city… Srinivasa…
Guest editor’s note : Diana Campbell
Dear Readers, It has been a delight engaging with writers from all over the world to ponder the potential and challenge that are tethered to the theme of sculpture. India has one of the oldest sculptural traditions in the world,…
Editor’s Note
TAKE Sculpture has been long overdue. And nothing could’ve been more appropriate for the theme of the tenth issue of TAKE on art. Yes, we are proud to have completed 10 successful issues covering themes like Black, Gallery, Modern, Oeuvre,…
A History of Indian Antiquities
A Large Bronze Figure of Shiva Nataraja, South India, Tamilnadu, 11th/12th Century 31½ inch (79.9 cm.) high, Private Collection. Image courtesy of Christie’s Medieval Bronze Masterpieces of the North and South The sculptural legacy of India is vast and expansive,…
LOUISE BOURGEOIS: ALONE AND TOGETHER
by Maya Kóvskaya, PhD Installation view of the Exhibition ‘Louise Bourgeois: Alone and Together’ at Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, 2012. Photo credit: Jonathan Leijonhufvud © Louise Bourgeois Trust / Licensed by VAGA, NY The life and work of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)…
In remembrance – Kekoo Gandhy
by Manisha Gera Baswani There are days in ones’ lives that stay etched in our hearts. One such day for me was an afternoon I spent with Kekoo and Khorshed Gandhy at their historic home in Bandra. It was here…
Editor’s Note : To Have and to Hold
Yves Klein in 1959 famously ideated a work called Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility where he sold empty space, an immaterial zone in the form of a certificate in exchange for gold; provided that the man who bought the certificate…
