View: The art mart can make a chimp a champArtistic licence can go bananas, literally, as it did in a 2019 Miami show where an exhibit titled, 'Comedian,' consisting of a ripe kela s...
05 Mar, 2022, 11.00 PM IST
View: How creators and NFTs are fuelling the Digital RenaissanceThose who give creators the shovels for their careers will be part of the “creator economy”. The gold that the creators will find with thes...
25 Nov, 2021, 06.47 PM IST
Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' copy fetches over $242K at Paris auctionDating back to around 1600, the copy looks strikingly similar to the original.
12 Nov, 2021, 11.14 AM IST
A Leonardo sketch, the size of a Post-it, fetches $12.2 mn at auctionThe drawing was bought by a single bid from an as-yet-unidentified buyer in the auction room.
09 Jul, 2021, 06.12 PM IST
17th century copy of Mona Lisa fetches $3.4 mn at Paris auctionA European collector has bought this Mona Lisa reproduction.
19 Jun, 2021, 03.30 PM IST
Replica of Leonardo de Vinci's Mona Lisa canvas expected to go on sale for $365,000Auction house Christie's is to put the work on sale on Friday.
08 Jun, 2021, 07.08 PM IST
People are spending millions on, and talking about, NFTs. What's this craze all about?In economics jargon, a fungible token is an asset that can be exchanged on a one-for-one basis.
15 Mar, 2021, 05.52 PM IST
Rs 500 crore for a jpeg isn't as crazy as you thinkThe piece, titled 'Everydays: The First 5,000 Days', is a mosaic made up of 5,000 individual images created every day from 2007 to 2021 and...
15 Mar, 2021, 09.30 AM IST
India's new draft e-commerce policy is 'anti-biz'Also in today's Morning Dispatch: The Rs 500 crore NFT art; The encryption debate continues; and Indian content finds flavour among foreign...
15 Mar, 2021, 08.11 AM IST
Picasso, Gauguin, Modigliani: When fake artworks made as much news as the originalsIn May 2000, auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s both offered Paul Gauguin’s ‘Vase de Fleurs’ for sale.
24 Sep, 2019, 01.11 PM IST
Robot-artists cannot simply be brushed offThe graffiti may be on the wall for human artists as Ai-rtists refine their skills.
08 Jun, 2019, 08.55 AM IST
Another multimillion-dollar da Vinci is hiding in plain sightScholars believe one of the paintings was commissioned by Florimond Robertet, a top administrator in the court of King Louis XII of France,...
23 Dec, 2017, 01.34 AM IST
World's smallest copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa created using DNADNA is best known for encoding genetic information of living things, the molecules are also an excellent building block.
07 Dec, 2017, 11.43 AM IST
Where Nawaz Modi Singhania stops for art across the globeWhen it comes to celebrated works, artist Nawaz Modi Singhania likes to soak in everything she surveys, but prefers to maintain her identit...
04 Apr, 2014, 03.38 PM IST
Luxury brands like Hermes, Gucci & others to take on faster growing fakes in IndiaPopular brands such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Bvlgari diamonds, Rolex watches and Prada dresses are counterfeited and sold widely in India.
28 Aug, 2013, 05.28 PM IST