
An auction of contemporary and modern Indian art in New York city by Sotheby's has fetched $ 6.7 million (more than Rs 36 crores). ...

06:53 AM, Mar 21, 2013

Artworks from the National Musuem and the National Gallery of Modern Art would now be accessible at the touch of a keystroke. ...

09:31 AM, Apr 11, 2012

New Delhi: Syed Haider Raza, the grand old man of modern art, turned 90 on Wednesday. Raza set an auction record for modern Indian art when one of his paintings 'Saurashtra', sold for almost USD 3.5 million in London. CNN-IBN wishes India's most famous modern artist SH Raza a very happy birthday. It takes an attendant and a wheel chair to get Syed Haidar Raza close to his canvas but...

09:03 AM, Feb 22, 2012

New Delhi: Paintings by MF Husain and SH Raza among other modern and contemporary artists figure among the highlights of Indian art in two upcoming summer sales abroad. "The Sixth Seal" by Husain estimated at 500,000 pounds and exhibited at Oxford's Museum of Modern Art's 'India: Myth and Reality, Aspects of Modern Indian Art' in 1982, is up for bidding at Sotheby's South Asian modern and contemporary art sale scheduled...

12:56 PM, May 25, 2011

In 2002, Bhupen Khakhar’s Buddha in Thailand sold for $ 8,963 at Christie’s. The same painting was bought in 2010 for $ 52,500, having appreciated 486 percent in less than eight years. Never mind that the world went through a recession that saw the art market virtually collapse. Yes, the good news is that art investment is back in business. The past year has seen a smart recovery in values...

05:24 PM, Jan 13, 2011

CNN-IBN's art correspondent Sahar Zaman visited the new space in the Capital. ...

12:35 AM, Jan 21, 2009

Dwayne Bravo struck a six from the final delivery as the Chennai Super Kings kept alive their play-off hopes in the Indian Premier League with a tense five-wicket win over the Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Monday. The West Indian allrounder struck Rajat Bhatia over the long-on fence. Chasing a modest score of 159, openers got Chennai off to a flying start as Michael Hussey and...

03:02 AM, May 23, 2008

Deccan Chargers won only their second game of this season’s IPL, with a belligerent partnership between Kumar Sangakkara and Cameron White ensuring a daunting target of 187 that proved to be more than enough for Pune Warriors. The visitors would have entertained some hopes while Michael Clarke and Sourav Ganguly were at the crease, with Deccan’s sloppy fielding also helping their cause, but they eventually fell short by 13 runs...

12:36 AM, May 18, 2008

Million dollar bids for Indian modern art have now become so routine, that there’s a buzz if they don’t come up. ...

01:47 PM, Sep 22, 2006