Visual Arts
The future is India
The Indian contemporary art market has been booming over the last few years. Figures suggest that Indian art is appreciating…
Cadaver art: deceased
The people who make it say it's not art. So why does the media still talk about the Body Worlds…
To believe or not to believe
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors," philosophized Thomas Huxley. But the distinguished English biologist’s argument, however…
Is the web revolutionizing the art market?
The world wide web’s potential as an information superhighway for the masses in generating discussion, debate and participation challenges the…
Your Gallery at The Saatchi Gallery
A new virtual gallery set up by British mega-art-patron and artist king-maker Charles Saatchi is opening doors for emerging talent…
Artistic identity in an age of terror
Post 9/11 do Arab-American artists have to pick a side or can they use their heritage to inform new bodies…
AIDS Awareness: A Dying Artform?
The start of the new millennium sees the AIDS pandemic enter its third decade. Tragically, the number of new infections…
The Art of Memory
It’s been five years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, where nearly 3,000…
Between kitsch and avant-garde
"Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind." So wrote Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, in an effort to…
The art of reinvention
Just what are the forces driving our obsession with the contemporary art of adaptation? For up until recently and historically,…