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Article: India Art Summit ends on mixed note in the capital
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- The Hindustan Times
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- August 24, 2008
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New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- The curtain came down on the India Art Summit 2008 in the capital on a mixed note as a pall of gloom descended on the participants and the organisers alike with the news that M.F. Husain's exhibition was ransacked here.
But the organisers of the art summit - Hanmer MS&L, a multi-discipline communications and creative services firm - were happy that the fair was able to draw huge crowds, transact brisk commerce and thrash out issues facing the Indian art industry.
The summit had excluded Husain's works fearing controversy and trouble. It had issued advisories and guidelines to the galleries to ...