Shock & Awe

Camps: Artists are still zipping around the globe and the art camp is the biggest excuse to get out of studio practice

Dodiya, who has entered the big league with his painting going for a crore at the Saffronart auction this year

Easy investment in art, with Pay Pal and online buying, it’s easier for young investors to start on their collection

Fakes. This year, the fake scam took a backseat, with Anjolie Ela Menon’s thumb print method of authentication

Galleries, they are popping up all over like mushrooms.

Husain, MF is India’s poster boy, even at 93, despite the controversy over the Bharat Mata painting

Indian art going international.

Jacks of all trade. Some painters wielded the camera, others went for multimedia

Kitsch. The last time we checked, the kitsch quotient in art was well and kicking.

LOSER. Even the art world has its share of losers, artists who failed to make an impression despite slaving

Mirchandani and Steinrueke, who’s cutting edge new gallery of the same name has hosted three international shows before even completing a year

N for Nemai Gosh whose travelling photography retrospective of Satyajit Ray had fans thronging the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi and Mumbai

Online art picked up after the success of Saffron, almost every artist worth her salt has an online presence

Prithvi and the centenary of its founder Prithvi Raj Kapoor

Queer or gender-bender art that seems to have gotten the attention of viewers, what with Tejal Shah and Abir Karmakar doing well internationally

Raja Ravi Varma who did not get much of a centenary celebration but went for Rs 1.5 lakh at auctions

Sensational was the word for shows like Clits, Tits and Elephant Dicks by Sanjeev Khandekar

Tried and tested. We all love SH Razaji but it would be nice to seem something “beyond the Bindu”

Under the table, a young art entrepreneur went to get paintings from a senior artiste to push up the auction bracket

Vanish. That is what some senior artists like Sadanand Bakre have done. You know that out of sight…

Watershed, which is what 2006 has been as far as prices go in the art market

Xanthous, the Greek name for yellow, the colour that a lot of artists are turning these days, thanks to crash diets

Young artists, there are millions of them spawned at the art schools and these days, even society ladies and lads are just picking up the brush and going solo

Zen Buddhism and its artistic manifestations. Here too, there are genuine followers whose art truly captures the essence of Zen while there are others who sham their way through