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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council that met in Srinagar has declared tax slabs and cesses for more than 1,000 items, and among them is art — a category that till now was exempted from VAT in some states, including West Bengal. In Rajasthan, the tax was much lower. The tax reform has listed it under the tax bracket of 12 per cent, including, among others, “paintings, drawings and pastels”, “original engravings, prints and lithographs”, “original sculptures and statuary in any material”…
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Source:The pioneer New Delhi Friday 28th March…
KOLKATA: The Bachhawats of Kolkata's well-known Aakriti Art Gallery have conceptualised and formed the Bachhawat Foundation. The foundation was recently launched.
The Bachhawat Foundation proposes to conduct art residency programs for potential, creative artists of the new generation to promote their art so that they don't get…
An Art Center having Artist Residency,Art Camps,Publications and more.A perfect ambiance that an artist requires in a serene surrounding.Less then 20 km from the Kolkata Airport,30 minutes drive.
Being an integral part of the art world for more than two generations and profoundly…
Aakriti Art Gallery had started the GenNext series of exhibitions to focus on young artists, who, it thought, showed promise. Most of the participants of this particular show were born in the 1980s, with one of them, Nihaal Faizal, born as late as in the 1990s. In its sixth edition (up to October 15), GenNext shows every sign of maturity, manifested in not only more carefully chosen works but also better display as more space is available now…
Aakriti Art Gallery is seeking to recruit 2 Gallery Interns to join the team at an exciting time before a busy forthcoming exhibition and art fair period.
Location: Kolkata
Key Responsibilities will include:
The Ideal Candidate will have:
These are immediate openings and the selected candidates will have to join immediately. To apply please send a covering letter and curriculum vitae to relation@artnewsnviews.com by 5th of August 2015.
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After the prompt response of the preceeding issues of August and September,we present you the October edition of Artetc:news and views, which concludes our series on Print making.
In this issue ,that is Multiplying Importance: Indian Printmaking Then / Indian Printmaking Now III, guest edited Waswo.X.Waswo, exploring exciting encounters with printmaking at…
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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. ~Martin Luther
Artist Dhananjoy Mukherjee is perhaps of the same opinion. His vision in the green god series reflects a tonal spectrum of leaves of various trees – their ages, their seasonal variations,…
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A fat version of Adam may be, or a cartoon. Establishing the failure of language to be a weak means of communication, yet again.
.Her work friends, Enemies and others, floats on the realm of subtle relations interweaved between man and his nature. It portrays pre-lapsarian serenity, in a technological matrix.
The question of civilization, colonialism and other…
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Woman artist in the Baroque period?
The answer is simple now. One click away, Google answers it. But was it so simple then, when a woman’s voice was heard in the Academia Delle Arti del Designo, in Florence. She made her voice heard, and linger it too, to the forthcoming generations of woman artists through ages.
Her famous painting Judith…
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Every foreign word contains the explosive material of enlightenment, contains in its
controlled use the knowledge that what is immediate cannot be said in unmediated
form but only expressed in and through reflection and mediation.
—Theodore Adorno, Notes to Literature
A "Thangka," also known as "Tangka", "Thanka"…
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Guest Editor : Waswo X. Waswo
This current issue, Part II of the series, begins with Soumik Nandy Majumdar's interview with the venerable artist and printmaker Sanat Kar. Speaking about his history and methodology, the illustrious printmaker also touches upon the issues of art pedagogy. Ravikumar Kashi then offers his own sincere and questioning…
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Born in 1947 in Czestochowa, Poland Jerzy Kędziora graduated from the city's Fine Arts School and followed by the National Academy of Fine Arts.
Exhibiting his versatility through a wide range of fine art disciplines - from drawing, painting and advertisement graphics, through ceramics, medal art and spatial composition, to the theatrical…
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Art movements have always been reactionary and art as a medium of rebel is something history has witnessed in a series with the passage of time. Guernica, the famous mural painting of Pablo Picasso stands as an epitome of the reflection of social and political injustice.
Keeping the same track in…
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Aakriti Art Gallery is one of the most vibrantly active venues of art in India. It exhibits a range of works of artists who are groundbreaking contemporary visionaries, young upcoming talents or historical masters. Founded in 2005 in Kolkata, the Gallery today has more than 1000 works in its collection which are put on display by rotation.
One of the core initiatives of Aakriti which is perused at tandem with the regular programme is the promotion of young upcoming talent. Providing them a platform to launch their artistic careers, stock their works and even buy the work outright that shows creativity and creative uniqueness motivates us as much as exhibiting for famous personalities from the art world.
Aakriti believes in representing a broad spectrum of visual language, style and concepts to reach out to the art community and beyond. It has always been our endeavor to increase awareness, understanding and appreciation of art forms . The new website would equip you with various new features. Our new website gives you the opportunity to navigate through the artworks in the gallery, information about forthcoming events and activities that happen throughout the year.
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