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Article: The right strokes ; India's first-ever organised art collective, The India Art Summit (IAS) 2008, between August 22 and 24 at Pragati Maidan, features over 200 artists and 34 galleries.
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ART SUMMIT THE RIGHT STROKES
Delhi: This may well be the ultimate wish list for an Indian art
collector worth the canvas on his wall. India's first-ever organised
art collective, The India Art Summit (IAS) 2008, between August 22
and 24 at Pragati Maidan, features over 200 artists and 34
galleries.
For India, this is as big as it gets, with F.N. Souza, M.F.
Husain, S.H. Raza, Anjolie Ela Menon, Jitish Kallat, Atul Dodiya and
Krishen Khanna, all under one roof.
It's a fantastic time for Indian art, says Phillip Hoffman of
the Fine Art Fund Group, UK, which is raising $25 million (Rs 107
crore) for an Indian fine arts fund. Ironically, there has never
been a concentrated effort by either ...