Raza in Mumbai

Syed Haider Raza ( 1922-2016) was one of India’s most prolific artists and continues to be one of the most avidly collected. An exhibition at Mumbai’s Piramal Art museum highlights his journey, early influences and the evolution of his signature style and iconic third eye/Bindu iconography. Raza spent his life in France but remained strongly…

Bas Meeuws at Tarq Art Gallery

Dutch photographer Bas Meeuws is inspired by the still lifes of the Dutch Golden age and recreates their intricate detailing in a series of photographs of flowers shot in different seasons, composited together in post production. Each element of the photographs is shot separately.  Like in the Dutch paintings, the floral compositions are of flowers…

Mehmet Guleryuz at Jamaat, Mumbai

  Mehmet Guleryuz is Turkey’s most important contemporary artist and On the Road is his first ever Mumbai showing, in collaboration with Jamaat art gallery’s feisty Pravina Mecklai and The Empire Gallery, Istanbul.  Guleryuz now eighty, has had five retrospectives of his work including one at the  Istanbul Modern. He is also a trained actor with…

An Artful Year -2

My art archives are getting frightfully delayed- apologies. Here are some of the art shows I wandered through in the last few months in Mumbai . I hope these pictures inspire you to  you go online and view the artists, their works and stories, works and gallery collections .

Tara – the enlightened one

I loved this gallery of Taras in Bhutanese style thangkas at Mumbai’s Tasting Room, and thought it would be nice to share this with my readers. The goddess Tara is a great deity in Tibetan Buddhism and in the Mahayana  tradition.  I like Tara because she was an early feminist. When she attained Bodhisattva status…

Seattle- a little peek

Seattle is a fun place to be in – great food, great music, and of course great coffee but if you are short of time forget Pike Place and standing pointlessly in queue at the Original Starbucks or spending an hour in line at the Space Needle.  Instead stop and stare at some cool buildings…

An artful year- 1

Some of my photographs from various art shows and gallery events I went to in Mumbai over last year – a less expensive way of being an art collector !  There are so many that this will be in three parts . Enjoy!      

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon

Travelling to Lisbon this summer ? For art lovers a trip to the Calouste Gulbenkian museum is definitely recommended. I find private collections and quirky collectors far more interesting than huge national museums and when such collections are accessible,  always worth a visit. Calouste Gulbenkian  made a fortune in oil trading in the early twentieth…

Dale Chihuly Garden and Glass #Seattle

American glass artist Dale Chihuly has his work in over 200 museums and has been awarded eleven honorary doctorates for his work in glass. It is difficult to describe his work at  Chihuly Garden and Glass  in Seattle– It is spectacular, phantasmagoric, just plain beautiful and a bit overwhelming. You need a little time to wander…

Kochi Biennale 2017-It’s the last fortnight

Three months of the Kochi Biennale come to an end on the 29th of this month.  I spent  five wholly immersive days there in the opening week and it is a trip I strongly reccommend . My  pictures don’t do justice to the art I saw , a lot of it was site specific installations…