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A FAIR TO REMEMBER?

The fourth edition of India Art Fair 2012 featured 98 exhibitors from 20 countries presenting 1,000 of the most modern and contemporary artists across a 12,000 square metre custom built space created for the art fair. MOA’s Managing Editor Sarmistha Maiti takes a closer look at the fair.

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LINE UP FOR UK’S BIGGEST CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE ANNOUNCED Artists from Cuba, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Slovenia, Sweden, and the UK on shortlist for Artes Mundi 5. Bangalore-based artist Sheela Gowda has been shortlisted for the £40,000 Artes Mundi Prize.	SAFFRONART’S INAUGURAL AUCTION OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART The first ever auction of Western art in India features 73 works by 35 eminent western artists with a total estimate of $ 3.3 million to 4.2 million. Saffronart’s Inaugural Auction of Impressionist an	THE ŠKODAPRIZEFOR INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART Marc Quinn Announces Navin Thomas as the Winner of The ŠKODA Prize 2011
INDIA'S FIRST FEMALE PHOTOJOURNALIST CAPTURED A NATION IN TRANSITION India’s first woman press photographer Homai Vyarawalla passed away on January 15, 2012, at the age of 98. Her work traces the nuances of pre- and post-independence India. The story of Homai’s life an	FLYING BUS UNVEILED IN MUMBAI The Flying Bus, a site-specific sculpture, is the result of a relationship between two seemingly disparate entities: the artist Sudarshan Shetty and Maker Maxity.	POLKA ART GALLERY PRESENTS “3 TO TANGO” Polka Art Gallery, renowned for its cutting edge shows and innovative take on art, presents three contemporary artists in one unique show:

SPECIAL INTERVIEW: REENA KALLAT

REENA KALLAT INTERVIEW WITH STINA EDBLOM

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2011 is an occasion for artists, curators, writers and thinkers to mull over the turbulence and turmoil that is today’s world. Pandemonium: Art in a Time of Creativity Fever is the theme of the biennal this year.

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INFOCUS: HIMALI SINGH SOIN

THE THIRD DIMENSION BY HIMALI SINGH SOIN

Paper Tongues is cleverly curated: though seemingly dictatorial in form and medium, it does not limit its artists to employing paper simply as a medium. It extends into paper as a function of the preservation of manifesto, and an ‘exchange of ideas’. The concept note refers to the work growing from a desire to Change, and whilst the decay of society is commonly an artist’s inspiration, the exhibition did not strike me as socially charged or created by ‘revolutionary dreamers’.

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3 TO TANGO – DISTINCTIVE STYLES, ONE COMMON DISCOURSE

Review by Sarmistha Maiti
February 01, 2012

3 to Tango
Binoy Varghese, FarhadHussain, George Martin
January 27-February 25, 2011
Polka Art Gallery, E 5, Defence Colony, New Delhi – 110024

3 to Tango the current exhibition in Polka Art Gallery, New Delhi.The exhibition brings together the works of three contemporary artists, Binoy Varghese, FarhadHussain and George Martin.

HOUSE OF LOVE

Review by Adam Bell
February 01, 2012

Dayanita Singh House of Love
Photographs by Dayanita Singh. Prose by Aveek Sen.
Radius Books, 2010. Hardbound. 172 pp., 106 color and black & white illustrations, 6-1/4x9-3/4".

South of Delhi, in the plains of Uttar Pradesh, the Taj Mahal stands as a testament to love and devotion. Built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal,...