Singapore Tatler  Great Walls  November 2012

A day after the opening of the Sundaram Tagore Gallery Singapore at the Gillman Barracks arts complex, Sundaram Tagore threw an exclusive poolside party for noted art collectors from across the globe.

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Wall Street Journal  In Hong Kong, a Timely Photo Series on Water  November 2012

Edward Burtynsky spent most of the past decade with his lens on the oil industry. Now he is shifting his focus to what he calls "the next great liquid": water.

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Jetstar Magazine  Sundaram Tagore Gallery  November 2012

Sundaram Tagore on his eponymous gallery in Singapore, uniting art from the East and West.

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The New York Times  Singapore Nurtures Art With Bureaucratic Touch  October 2012

The Singaporean government has in recent years worked with various partners to develop the infrastructure of a major Asian contemporary art hub.

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South China Morning Post  Writ Large  October 2012

Historically, Arabic calligraphy grew from a desire to honour the perfect language of God as set down from the Koran.

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The New York Times  Singapore Recasts Itself as Newest Asian Art Hub  October 2012

For decades Singapore has concentrated on developing its reputation as a global financial center, a focus that only recently expanded to include its cultural growth as well.

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International Herald Tribune  Former army barracks becomes centerpiece of city-state's cultural plan  October 2012


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The Edge Singapore  Space for Art  October 2012

Curator Sundaram Tagore tells Aimee Chan why the new art development at Gillman Barracks is so current and important.

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CNN Go  Next big art thing: Gillman Barracks opens in Singapore  October 2012

Singapore vs. Hong Kong as Asia's art capital gets serious with launch of new center for international galleries.

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ArtInfo  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Expands to Singapore  September

The Sundaram Tagore Gallery is expanding to Singapore, opening its fifth location within the new Gillman Barracks art district on September 14th. It beat out 30 other applicants to make the cut as one of the 13 galleries selected by a government-appointed committee to open what is touted to be the next big destination for contemporary art in Asia.

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The Business Times  Globalising the Asian art brand  September 2012

Sundaram Tagore has been campaigning for the international recognition of non-Western artists long before the world started to take notice of Asian art.

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Zaobao Now  Sundaram Tagore, descendant of Rabindranath Tagore, opens new gallery at the Gillman Barracks  September 2012

Sundaram Tagore Gallery is the only New York gallery to participate at the Gillman Barracks. The owner is a descendant of Rabindranath Tagore, the influential Indian Nobel Prize winner in Literature.

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Time Out Singapore  September 2012

Former military compound Gillman Barracks is now home to some of the world's top gallery brands.

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The Business Times  Art Central  August 2012

Gillman Barracks opens as Singapore's - and the region's - new destination for contemporary art.

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ARTnews  Jane Lee review  August 2012

While other painters may parse pictorial or abstract traditions, the Singaporean artist Jane Lee plays with the stuff and stuffing of the painting. Employing the boldest colors—primarily reds—she uses pastry bags to build up near-sculptural agglomerations of acrylic paint.

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Bloomberg  Singapore Woos Millionaires With Murakami, Leibovitz  June 2012

What's the connection between racing car driver Lewis Hamilton, Michelin-starred chef Joel Robuchon and New York gallery owner Sundaram Tagore? The answer is Singapore.

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Sing Tao Daily  Descendant of Tagore plans to set up gallery at WKCD  July 2012

Sundaram targets the West Kowloon Cultural District as the gallery’s future location and plans to introduce local artists to the international art scene.

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The Atlantic  The Art of Industry: The Making and Meaning of Edward Burtynsky's New Exhibit, 'Oil'  June 2012

This thematic show features nearly 50 large-format images that tell the story of oil, from its origins, extraction, and processing in the tar sands of Alberta or the first offshore platforms in Azerbaijan, through the spaghetti junctions and motorcycle rallies that represent oil's spatial, infrastructural, and cultural footprint, all the way to oil's afterlife in mountains of compacted barrels and broken tankers in the Bay of Bengal.

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Daily Serving  The Big Bicture: An Interview with Ed Burtynsky  June, 2012

The impact of oil has consistently reappeared in the work of Canadian photographer Ed Burtynsky for well over a decade. Burtynsky’s photographs often soar into the air, freeing us from our limited perspective, offering us the ability to better understand the scale and impact that this material has on contemporary life. It is only through this expansive perspective that we begin to understand the magnitude and consequence of our complicit actions.

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Art Critical  Abstraction and Representation on Equal Terms: A Studio Visit with Denise Green  June, 2012

In conjunction with the launch of "Denise Green: An Artist’s Odyssey", published by the University of Minnesota Press, Artcritical sent contributing editor Jonathan Goodman to the artist’s studio for an in-depth discussion about the Australian artist’s time in Paris and New York and her contributions both as a visual artist and a writer and editor.

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Artforum  Hiroshi Senju Review  June 2012

The exquisite works in Hiroshi Senju’s series “Cliffs,” 2012—eleven mixed-media paintings, one triptych, all on mulberry paper mounted on board—appear to illustrate Lao-tzu’s idea of Tao as a sort of universal flow or elemental flux informing all things.

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Asian Art News  Hiroshi Senju Review  May/June 2012

Japanese painter Hiroshi Senju is best known for the serenity of his large-scale waterfall paintings that he has made since 1990. His recent cliff paintings that he has developed since 2007 articulate both artistic and metaphysical tension.

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Art Critical  Neither Hats Nor Unicorns  June 2012

Judith Murray’s current show at Sundaram Tagore presents a stunning departure for this boldly original painter with a significant body of work dating to the 1970s. She could be classed as a latter-day Abstract Expressionist in that her work is always abstract and also deeply expressive.

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Surface Asia  Moving Pictures

Gallerist Sundaram Tagore goes behind the camera for his first feature film.

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CNN Go  10 reasons art lovers should visit Hong Kong right now - including Annie Leibovitz show at Sundaram Tagore Gallery Hong Kong


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The Boston Globe  Extracting unsettling beauty from Vermont quarries  May 2012

Globalization has a recording angel. For two decades, Edward Burtynsky large-format color photographs of mining in Australia, shipbreaking in India, and manufacturing in China have documented how extraction, production and consumption collaborate to alter the environment to degrees almost entirely unprecedented in human history.

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Sunday Morning Post  Many Snappy Returns  APRIL 2012

Mention the name Annie Leibovitz, and some iconic images of 20th-century pop culture immediately spring to mind.

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South Asian Diaspora  Tug of War With the Art Piece of Your Eye  April 2012

Walk into New York gallerist, Sundaram Tagore's life as he shares his journey through art, the impact it has had on his life, and how you can become a collector.

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MillionaireAsia  Art, Not Just For Art's Sake

A gallery and an art historian, Sundaram Tagore is a man who wears many hats. Sundaram added yet another hat to his collection – that of a film director.

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Singapore Tatler  March 2012

Sundaram Tagore speaks about his documentary, setting up his own gallery and the Asian art scene.

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The Times of India  India Art Fair and its attendees  FEBRUARY 2012

Hong Kong-based gallery Sundaram Tagore displayed photographs and portraits of famous personalities like the Dalai Lama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates and Marilyn Monroe.

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expressindia  Art and For the Soul  JANUARY 2012

There was one familiar face at the India Art Fair, a face which has continued to fascinate the world for decades now.

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Asian Age  Art spells mega bucks  JANUARY 2012

The business of art is enjoying a big-time boom.

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The Times of India  India Art Fair  JANUARY 2012

Step into the India Art Fair and you could well be a part of the hype, the hubris and the bazaar that the Indian galleries love to load on your senses. But it is the foreign galleries that have added the pulling down and keeping low and focused fare.

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India Today  India Art Fair kicks off with a full house  JANUARY 2012

The Art Fair in Delhi has a shed of all its pretensions of being a cultural enlightenment.

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Mail Online India  Iconic Afghan Girl photograph expected to fetch Rs25.5 lakh  JANUARY 2012

Steve McCurry's "Afghan Girl" at India Art Fair.

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NY Arts Magazine  Five World-Renowned Photographers Point their Lenses at India  JANUARY 2012

For centuries India has held a grip on the Western imagination. Sundaram Tagore Gallery’s exhibition at this year’s India Art Fair in New Delhi (January 26 to 29) traces the country’s influence on a group of notable photographers.

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The Guardian  The India art fair - in pictures  JANUARY 2012

Photo essay on India Art Fair 2012 including Sundaram Tagore Gallery

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Daily Pioneer  A fair deal  JANUARY 2012

Sundaram Tagore Gallery from Beverly Hills, New York has a mix of Indian photographers and artists from across the globe at India Art Fair.

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The Tribune  INDIA ART FAIR PREVIEW Delhi extravaganza set to enthral art lovers  JANUARY 2012

Sundaram Tagore Gallery has works by all foreign artists.

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The Wall  The India Art Fair  JANUARY 2012

Sundaram Tagore has put together a dynamic selection of art work by bringing Kim Joon and Sebastian Salgado to India.

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ARTnews  Beyond Borders  January 25, 2012

The growing ranks of commercially successful Middle Eastern artists, increasingly featured at international galleries, auctions and fairs, provides a rough benchmark by which to measure the growth of the market.

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XINMSN  A Moment with ... Gallerist Sundaram Tagore  January 2012

Meet Sundaram Tagore, a New York-based gallerist, art historian and now award-winning director.

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Nagarik Daily  Jyoti Duwadi's show Wu Xing: Five Elements  JANUARY 2012

Nepali Newspaper Nagarik Daily features Jyoti Duwadi's show Wu Xing: Five Elements.

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ilovesoho.hk  Cross-Cultural Creativity  JANuary 2012

Nepalese artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong explores the confluence of nature, cultures and symbolism.

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Asian Art News  Exhibition Reviews  JANUARY 2012

Wu Xing: Five Elements is a thoroughly engaging and thoughtful work in which each element of the collective has been carefully worked out.

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Gafencu  Sundaram Tagore profile in Hong Kong's Power 300 issue  December 2011

Sundaram Tagore has a distinct sense of style. That's probably just as well, bearing in mind his status as an art historian and the owner of a gallery that bears his name.

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Condé Nast Traveller  India Art Fair 2012  DECEMBER 2011

Sundaram Tagore Gallery Hong Kong will show Annie Leibovitz and Sebastião Salgado at India Art Fair 2012.

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artmap.tv  JAPAN. Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa designed by Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA just opened to the public  DECEMBER 2011

The design of the Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa is a collaborative effort between Ryue Nishizawa and the Japanese artist Hiroshi Senju, whose paintings from 1978 to the present day are on display at the new museum.

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Kee X  Leaving The Room  DECEMBER 2011

Award-winning photographer Robert Polidori recently showed his powerful images of the interiors of rooms as altered by the passages of time in Hong Kong for the first time.

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Mental Floss  8 Artists Who Poured Their Heart and Soul Into Their Work  NOVEMBER 2011

For many artists, the most personal stamp they put on a piece is their signature. Barry Freedland, on the other hand, uses his identity to create most of his art.

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Asian Art News  In A Realm Of One's Own  NOVEMBER 2011

The Chinese ink painter Zhang Yu has long struggled with ink painting innovations while keeping an eye on enlarging the great tradition and culture from which his art emerges. While his painting and ideas are steeped in Chinese culture, they also speak vigorously across art's international borders.

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Voice of America News  New York Gallery Displays Modern Middle Eastern Calligraphy  November 2011

Middle Eastern calligraphy on display at a New York City art gallery is being touted as a vehicle for dialogue between Middle East and the West.

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the pocket arts guide  Sundaram Tagore: Tradition and Transcendence  OCTOBER 2011

Sundaram Tagore Gallery has supported Fine Art Asia since the fair started in 2006. It has branches in Hong Kong, New York and Beverley Hills. The gallery specialises in artwork that interweaves the modern, the cultural and the abstract.

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Sunday Morning Post  Still Life But Outdoors  OCTOBER 2011

Robert Polidori takes extraordinarily beautiful photographs of interiors that are not, nessarily, beautiful. His images aren't about architecture - what he's interested in is how people take buildings and transform them into habitats.

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Time Out Hong Kong  Interview Robert Polidori  SEPTEMBER 2011

Internationally renowned for his large-scale photography of ruins and deserted spaces, Robert Polidori likes to recall his defining influence: Frances Yates' The Art of memory, which he came across in 1971.

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Paroles  Robert Polidori: Versailles or the Art of Memory  SEPTEMBER 2011

Why wouldn’t the walls have recorded and layered, one on top of the other, all the emotional vibes of the rooms’ successive occupants and visitors? That is the question that has obsessed photographer Robert Polidori for over twenty years, and that makes his photographs of interiors and exteriors so moving and haunting, long after we have seen them.

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Art Collection +Design  Interview of Sundaram Tagore Gallery Establisher  SEPTEMBER 2011

Established in 2000 in New York and with branches in Beverly Hills and Hong Kong, Sundaram Tagore Gallery was the first international gallery to open in Hong Kong.

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CNN  Robert Polidori photographs Hong Kong's 'rational planning'  SEPTMEBR 2011

Canadian-born photographer Robert Polidori hasn’t taken a vacation in 25 years. He’s been too busy carting his large-format camera around the world to document the aftermath of events like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the Lebanese Civil War.

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ARTnews  Tom Doyle Review  July 2011

Using carved planks and curved sections of trees that he felled himself, Tom Doyle constructed handsome, tripodal forms that vary from tabletop models to nearly eleven-foot-tall sculptures. Four of the 13 were displayed attached to the walls at eye level, but the freestanding sculptures held the most potency. The larger works resemble the bones of a long-dead vertebrate, but at the same time the elegance of their compositions make them seem animated.

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Spoon & Tamago  Hiroshi Senju Museum in Karuizawa by Ryue Nishizawa  July 2011

Hiroshi Senju became a famous artist in the same way Ernest Hemingway described a man going broke: “Two ways, gradually and then suddenly.”

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BBC  High-end art in Hong Kong  June 2011

One of the early arrivals, back in 2007, was Sundaram Tagore, a gallerist with outposts in New York and Beverly Hills who focuses on the intersection of Western and non-Western art and shows pieces that further a global dialogue.

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Life Magazine China  Water From Sky  May 2011


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The New York Times Magazine  On Earth As It Is In Heaven  June 2011

What Sebastião Salgado sees in places untouched by humanity.

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Gafencu Men  The Look of Genesis  JUNE 2011

Sebastião Salgado, one of the world’s most respected photographers, is set to debut his latest work—the Genesis series—in Hong Kong with a solo exhibition at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery.

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ARTINFO  Hong Kong Prison to Be Rehabilitated as Lavish $231 Million Art Complex, With a Hand From Herzog & de Meuron  JUNE 2011

(including Chelsea's Sundaram Tagore, which is currently exhibiting Sebastiao Salgado's gritty photographs of poverty and labor).

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The College of Wooster  Successful Alumni  June 2011

Art historian, collector, gallery owner, businessman, philanthropist, and now filmmaker: Sundaram Tagore embodies the restless intellectual curiosity, cross-cultural exploration, and entrepreneurial spirit that characterize the liberal arts at their best.

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Art News  Tagore Takes On Film  June 2011

Not many art dealers can call themselves fledgling movie directors, but Sundaram Tagore - who operates branches of his gallery in New York, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong - recently debuted his first feature-length film.

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South China Morning Post  Humanity Laid Bare  May 2011

The faces and scenes we meet through Sebastiao Salgado's lens are haunting: Indian coffee growers, Vietnamese boatpoeple, forgotten landscapes and the impact of globalisation on humankind. Salgado, a Brazilian has been called the work's most important photographer of the early 21st Century. This week his debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong opened at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Central.

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The New York Film Academy  Graduate is Screening his Documentary Internationally at Several Prestigious Museums  May 2011

New York Film Academy Graduate Sundaram Tagore is an Indian-born, New York-based art historian and filmmaker, and the first gallerist to focus exclusively on globalization. Prior to enrolling at New York Film Academy, he opened the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York in 2000 followed by branches in Beverly Hills and Hong Kong in 2008.

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Time Out Hong Kong  Unearthly Pursuits  May 2011

Sebastiao Salgado is always on the go. An economist by trade before taking up an acclaimed career in photograhy, the 67-year-old Brazilian has been taking his poetic vision to every last shore on which human civilisation meets the natural world.

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The Wall Street Journal  Sundaram Tagore Focuses on Hong Kong  MAY 2011

At the time, Mr. Tagore was one of the first international gallery owners to open a space in the city. Since then several foreign galleries have followed, including Gagosian Gallery and Ben Brown Fine Arts. “Hong Kong has become an important artistic center,” said Mr. Tagore. “There is an audience here that has a voracious appetite for art.”

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Venice  Sebastião Salgado Changing the World Frame By Frame  July 2009

As we proceed with our interview in French, Photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has lived in Paris since 1969, begins most of his answers with "Ecoutes..." as to say "Listen..." in a heavy Brazillian accent he has maintained well from his native land.

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The Sunday Times  Taking the espresso train  September 2007

Sitting in the basement of his agency in Paris, Sebastiao Salgado is recalling the camera that changed his destiny. The memory is more than three decades old, and yet still vivid. There is a glint in his bright blue eyes, his Picasso-like bald head is leaning across the table, his bushy white eyebrows are raised and he is repeating his favourite adjective – “enormous”.

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Black & White Magazine  Salgado's Africa  October 2008

For more than 30 years, Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado has been a roving prophet with a camera, alerting the developed world to the consequences - unintended and otherwise - of unchecked globalization. But no matter how harrowing the journey has become, his eloquent, unforgettable photographs are invariably attuned to the transformative power of the human spirit.

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The New Yorker  How Sebastião Salgado captures the world  April 2005

In the world of photojournalism, a place where his fame and magisterial rhythm of work give him a singular status, Salgado has the added distinction of being his own producer: he owns the factory.

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Guardian  Biography: Sebastião Salgado  September 2004

Sebastião Salgado discovered photography while working as an economist for the World Bank. He is now one of the world's greatest photographers.

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The New York Times  Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action  May 2009

Famous for putting a human face on economic and political oppression in developing countries, Mr. Salgado is photographing the most pristine vestiges of nature he can find: pockets of the planet unspoiled by modern development. He has visited the seminomadic Zo’e tribe in the heart of the Brazilian rain forest and weathered desolate stretches of the Sahara. Next up: two months in the Brooks mountain range of Alaska on the trail of caribous and Dall sheep.

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LA Weekly  Sebastião Salgado's Search for the Pristine  JUNE 2007

A documentary photographer with a Ph.D. in economics, Sebastião Salgado has spent much of the last 30 years in the underbelly of globalization, bearing witness to some of the bleakest chapters of recent history. He’s photographed the victims of famine in Ethiopia, genocide in Rwanda, land mines in Angola, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and war in Afghanistan. His last two major projects, “Workers” (1986–1992) and “Migrations” (1993–1999), are epic studies of postindustrial economic development, as reflected in the faces of those whom it least serves, from Brazilian gold miners to Vietnamese fishermen, displaced Ecuadorian farmers to Sudanese refugees.

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The Wall Street Journal  Tom Doyle: Space Embraced  April 2011

Tom Doyle fells cherry, oak and sassafras trees to make his carved, rough-hewn tripartite sculptures, some of which he casts in red and brown patinated bronze. The nearly two dozen abstract works here, from 1986 to the present, are either handheld or behemoth in scale.

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The Economic Times  The Dot Among the Dots: The Works of Sohan Qadri  April 2011

Only a poet, a painter and a Tantric yogic practitioner could engage with the mystic roots of spirituality. Sohan Qadri, one of India's greatest abstractionists in the genre of meditative moorings passed away early in March. It was at Kumar Gallery's 'Celebration' that collector and friend Virender Kumar had included a series of stellar works by Qadri which revealed his penchant for exploring the notion of emptiness or voids in a series of luminous, dye-infused works on paper.

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Orientations  Asia Week New York  March 2011

Sundaram Tagore Gallery will present a group exhibition, "Facing East’, of works that transcend cultural boundaries while reflecting Eastern elements. The show represents artists of Korean, Indian, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Uzbeki-Israeli origins. These works define an aesthetic language of East-West dialogue, featuring artists Kim Joon, Nathan Slate Joseph, Sohan Qadri, Hiroshi Senju, Robert Yasuda, Nhat Tran, Amina Ahmed, and Taylor Kuffner. Through their works, these artists struggle to create a sense of beauty that is universal through a wide range of mediums.

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Life Style Asia  Art & The City - About Faces by Lee Waisler  March 2011

Waisler known for his socially and politically charged works deal with the Holocaust, Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. His works soon began to reflect his growing interest in Eastern philosophy, and accordingly, became increasingly abstract. It was after Waisler's journey to India in the mid-90s that his works moved toward figuration and away from pure abstraction.

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Weekend Weekly  FEBRUARY 2011

There are about 20 portraits of famous individuals arriving at Hollywood Road painted by the American artist Lee Waisler. The subject of these paintings are distinguished people from various fields. But the most striking characteristic of these paintings is the artist's usage of mixed materials -such as wooden sticks, sand and glass onto the thick acrylic paints- to allow the painting to present a totally different texture from the traditional paintings.

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Gallery Guide  Lee Waisler - About Faces  March 2011

For his second solo exhibition in Hong Kong, California-based American painter Lee Waisler presents a series of moving portraits of historical and contemporary figures. Having practiced abstraction for decades, Waisler returned to figuration full-force six years ago, making what he calls "dimensional portraits," combining strips of wood and blocks of color to create nuanced faces and figures.

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Home - The Standard  Art at Home  February

In recognition of those who contributed themselves to creating a better environment for the human race, California-based American painter Lee Waisler is presenting a series of moving portraits of historical and contemporary figures in About Faces, his second solo exhibition in Hong Kong.

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CNN Go  Interview with Sundaram Tagore  February 2011

The first international gallerist to come to Hong Kong, Sundaram Tagore is now premiering his debut documentary

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Glass  Paradise Lost  January 2011

Edward Burtynsky's photographs are a document of our modern world. From oil-scarred landscapes and the dream like monotony of manufacturing plants, to the booming industrial backdrop of modern China, his work represents the stark and very real repercussions of our modern way of life. But despite the socio-political nature of his subjects, Burtynsky maintains that he is 'not an activist', he is, at the core, an artist.

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Daily Beast  Jane McAdam Freud Continues Sigmund Freud's Legacy  January 2011


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Wall Street Journal  Chipping Away at the Life of the Mind  January 2011

"Jane McAdam Freud has never seen a shrink. But as an artist and the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, she has plenty to say about theories of the unconscious that have shaped our understanding of the human condition for more than a century.
Freudian theory has long been used as a tool to process modern art, but few artists have consciously created an oeuvre specifically about Sigmund Freud's work - certainly not an artist of the same bloodline. Ms. McAdam Freud's new collection, "Random Plus," explores theories of the unconscious, dream analysis, sexuality and repeated experiences using a vast collection of multimedia pieces fashioned from bronze, clay and copper."

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Asian Art News  Edward Burtynsky at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  Nov 2010

"Every viewer will see in Burtynsky's work the aspects of nature, and of man's engagement in nature, that seem most significant to him at the time. It may be the beauty of color; it may be the magic of pattern; it may be the bizarre juxtaposition of beauty and industry, or the betrayal of nature or of man that often results from uncontrolled industrial exploitation. Burtynsky's work can generate this diversity of appreciation due to its accessibility, its universality, and its honesty. The artificial is made natural, and man's attack on nature is made beautifully clear."

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Artforum critics' picks  Edward Burtynsky  October 2010

"Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong offers works made between 1985 and 2008. His longtime preoccupation with the effect that industrial operations have on the earth is apparent: The large-sale photographs show how various industries currently dominate landscapes around the world, from oil fields to highways, electronics factories to car lots."

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South China Morning Post  Edward Burtynsky --- The photographer tells Yvonne Lai why he takes a wide angle view of humanity's industrial impact  October 2010

"After following the construction of the Three Gorges Dam [documented in the film Manufactured Landscapes], I'm now doing a series on dams further up the Yangtze as part of a series on water. The kind of meditation I did on oil [in a book published in 2008], I'm doing on water. I see them both as having huge human implications."

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Asia Tatler  Edward Burtynsky's Manufactured Landscapes  October 2010

"If aliens wanted to understand modern civilization as it is today, they would probably look at Ed Burtynsky's photographs. His large-scale works show monstrous quarries, poisonous metal tailings, spaghetti highways and sprawling oil fields."

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Straits Times  Arts fair takes boutique route  October 2010

"Gallery directors are optimistic about the Singapore art market... New York-based Sundaram Tagore... said: 'The Singaporean community in the artistic context has matured. You see so many more museums, and the Government is taking a greater interest in art.'"

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The Wall Street Journal  Weekend Art Picks in Asia  October 2010

"Famous for his panoramic color photographs of natural landscapes that teem with mining, industrial and building activity, Edward Burtynsky is finally getting a one-man show in Asia."

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HK Magazine  Upclose with Edward Burtynsky  October 2010

"Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is famous for his visually striking and disarmingly beautiful large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. During his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, he talks to Penny Zhou about his industrial background and the messages behind his images."

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South China Morning Post  Stage set for flurry of art sales and shows  September 2010

"Today is arguable one of the busiest days in Asia's art calendar with the Fine Art Asia fair as well as autumn art sales by Seoul Auction and Sotheby's taking place in Wan Chai [...] Sundaram Tagore has said time had proved him right about setting up in the city."

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INDESIGNLIVE  Edward Burtynsky Exhibition  September 2010

"As an industrial designer, the profession presents me with an intrinsic irony.
It celebrates the possibilities of producing beautiful things. But it also exposes the disarming reality of where things come from."

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CNN Go  Beastly-Beautiful Industrial Landscapes Through the Lens of Edward Burtynsky  September 2010

"Back in 1984 when the HSBC tower was first being built, planes still landed in Kai Tak Airport and the jetfoil ride to Macau was considered a long trip, photographer Edward Burtynsky arrived Hong Kong. It was the first place in Asia the Canadian had traveled to. We caught up with Burtynsky before he jetted off to Fuijian province, and chatted about being detained by Chinese police, getting access to Saudi Arabian oil fields and that first trip to Asia"

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Artdaily.org  Adi Da Samraj "Orpheus and Linead" Opens at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  September 2010

"Adi Da Samraj is known for his monumental works meant to draw viewers into an ecstatic experience and connect them to a higher spiritual truth. Since his participation in the 2007 Venice Biennale, the late American-born artist has commanded a large international following. This exhibition, called Orpheus and Linead, curated by the renowned Italian critic and art historian Achille Bonito Oliva (director of the 45th Venice Biennale), comprises 11 works on aluminum. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York and it features several works that have never been shown publicly."

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The Standard  Price of Prosperity  September

"Vast. Intricate. Awe-inspiring. Depressing. Momentous. Stagnant. These conflicting words come to mind when gazing on the universally acclaimed works of Edward Burtynsky. The Canadian photographer is best known for capturing a global panoply of images featuring breathtaking scenes with a man-and-environment theme"

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Hong Kong Gallery Guide  Through the lens of Edward Burtynsky  September 2010

"Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is internationally known for his works on man- made landscapes that render, with disconcerting beauty, grave matters of industrial transformation. For its photography focussed issue, The Hong Kong Gallery Guide caught up with Burtynsky ahead of his exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, to hear his views on photography as an art form, collecting art, and his creative vision."

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Art News  Robert Yasuda  September 2010

"Yasuda's paintings are like shields or tablets awaiting a future generation to record its history on them."

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Glass  Burtynsky's 1st solo exhibition in Hong Kong  AUGUST 2010

World-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, known for his disarmingly beautiful images of industrial landscapes, is to have his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. The Canadian artist presents large-scale photographs shot in Hong Kong, China, India, Azerbaijan, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, and the United States.

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West East Magazine  Arrested Memories  July 2010

“The sky was red. It was like a volcano had erupted in the clouds,” Uzbek-Israeli artist Nathan Slate Joseph whispers to me in his thick Brooklyn accent. He is recalling the year 1948, when bomb blasts shook Israel and he was just a boy. Joseph pauses before explaining, “When I create sculptures, I go back to the colours and materials I was raised around. It’s like an act of arresting memories.” Indeed it is as though Joseph is gazing into the depths of his childhood when he constructs his deeply coloured metal works."

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West East Magazine  The Kim Joon Intrusion  July 2010

"Art to humanity, like hope to life, is the purpose of being, the main cog of an apparatus; convincing eyes and souls that dreams exist to be shaped, desires to be fulfilled, taboos to be wrecked. In between political and commercial propaganda, some artists find their place amidst a realm of the non sequitur. Kim Joon is an artist of this kind. Ren Wan loses grip of herself amidst Kim Joon’s beguiling imagery. "

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Hong Kong Tatler  Rust Never Sleeps  July 2010

"Emeralds, rubies, sapphires, 24-karat gold. Aquamarine, topaz, amber, turquoise. The sizzling colours of the pigments in the paintings and sculptures of Nathan Slate Joseph nearly leap off the walls of the gallery; looking at them, you might think the artist has ground up precious stones to create his works. The colours are so saturated yet so organic that it’s difficult to resist the urge to touch them."

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Color Magazine  An Uneasy Contradiction Surveying the career of Edward Burtynsky  July 2010

"From the mid-1980s to the present, photographer Edward Burtynsky has made beautiful images of landscapes we'd rather not see. He photographs sites that are essential to our worldwide energy consumption: open-pit mines, refineries, quarries, and uranium tailings. More recently, he has photographed landscapes we couldn't imagine without his camera: China's relocation of millions of citizens to make way for the Three Gorges Dam, E-waste recycling, tire dumps, and ship- breaking. For two decades, Burtynsky's environmentally conscious photographs have grown from picturing quiet, seemingly benign hillsides with houses and dogs to the flagrantly poisonous, in the red river tailings of Sudbury, Ontario."

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Time Out Hong Kong  Interview: Edward Burtynsky  July 2010

"On his way to document the Gulf spill, the Canadian photographer talks to Edmund Lee about his fascination with the imageries of urban and industrial transformation. It is with the industrial landscapes created by mankind that one can best judge its progress and failings, and Edward Burtynsky has been taking a front row seat in these spectacles of environmental disasters for nearly three decades. The 55-year-old Canadian artist's large-format colour photographs have drawn worldwide acclaim for the sublime beauty they captured."

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Living Galleries  Sundaram Tagore Gallery - Hong Kong  July 2010

"Sundaram Tagore Gallery opened its doors in 2000 with a mission to foster the exchange of ideas between different cultures. With three locations in New York, Hong Kong and Beverly Hills, the stable of transnational artists straddles the terrain of east and west. The artists fail from such countries as India, Japan, Korea, , Uzbekistan, Mexico, Europe and America. The galleries have become known for cultural activities and collaborative events across the world."

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Portfolio  Edward Burtynsky's Negative Sublime

"Over the last three decades, Edward Burtynsky has created a body of images he describes as tracing "the man-made transformations our civilisation has imposed upon nature". This is a modest formulation with which to describe landscape photographs of often vast scale and stunning ocular power. Burtynsky's camera surveys terrain apparently subject to Promethean forces: quarries sit like mammoth inverted buildings, gouged out according to an unnatural symmetry. A mine tailing spreads luminous poison across blackened countryside, a suppurating geological sore. Oil derricks stretch like advancing robots as far as any human eye can see."

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The New York Times  Burtynsky's Account: Adding Up the Price that Nature Pays  January 2004

"Edward Burtynsky views the world through a large-format camera and finds beauty in highly improbable places. For nearly 20 years his subject has been the ravages of heavy industry, seen at a scale so vast as to be unimaginable."

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Time Magazine  Made in Canada: Frame of Work  September 2005

"Edward Burtynsky wants to start a conversation about change. His photography documents the massive impact of human beings on the earth's landscape. He has filled his view finder with nickel mines in Sundbury, marble quarries in Italy and the demolition of the Yangtze River vallery in China. The enormous, deeply colorful prints he produces are both sublime and horrible."

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Art in America  The Toxic Sublime  February 2006

"Edward Burtynsky's grandly scaled photographs of industrial wastelands and detritus radiate a beauty as fearsome as it is spectacular. His recent retrospective confronted viewers with the true (but not quite hidden) cost of fulfilling our consumerist desires"

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Toronto Life  The eyes of Ed Burtynsky  February 2004

"He has photographed slag heaps in Sundbury, marble quaries in Italy and disintegrating cities along the Yangtze. How a miner turned entrepreneur conjures beauty from devastation, changing the way we see the world"

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Collections  The Wish Maker: Edward Burtynsky  February 2007

"As a recipient of the TED prize, Burtynsky received his wishes, becoming a founding member of an exclusive club that includes the likes of Bono and Bill Clinton. Make no mistake, however; this is not a prize to be wasted on the self indulgent. Upon acceptance, the winner is charged with saving the world of its ills, armed only with their reputation, a sharp mind and a purse of $100,000."

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Art Forum  Edward Burtynsky  November 2005

"Uncomfortable ironies abound in Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky's large color photographs of ravaged natural terrain. Burtynsky's subjects have consistently been landscapes in which the process of industrialization has resulted in spectacles that dwarf the likes of Michael Heizer's sprawling City, 1970-99. Burtynsky's work is undeniably gorgeous yet maintains connections to the documentary"

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Time Out Hong Kong Art Guide 2010  Sundaram Tagore Gallery  June 2010

"When the New York-based art historian and gallerist Sundaram Tagore decided to open a space in Hong Kong, he brought a wave of fresh inspiration to Hollywood Road. A descendant of poet and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, the gallerist immediately inserted his intellectual edge into the district, with a series of historically important, and sometimes museum-quality, exhibitions"

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Hong Kong Gallery Guide  Talking with the Walls  June 2010

"Standing in a room of Nathan Slate Joseph works is a meditative experience. One is drawn into a tranquility that seems at odds with the expected dissonance that such a variance of colors could create. Joseph surprisingly presents us with a playful and joyous symphony of colors."

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Kee Magazine  Alternate Worlds  May 2010

"Natvar Bhavsar's abstract expressionist art offers a spiritual portal to colourful auras and parallel universes. The prolific artist's expansive mind-altering pieces are the impetus for self-examination. His first exhibition in Hong Kong at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery entitled 'RANG' is Sanskrit for both a surge of colour and achieving a state of pure ecstasy."

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Whole Life Times  Return of the Seeker  May 2010

"Sohan Qadri, by all accounts, has had a fascinating journey. An acclaimed artist, published poet and tantric Buddhist yogi, Qadri is known for his stunningly beautiful dye-infused works inspired by his spirituality. On the deepest level, Qadri's work could be described as a yogic diagram of the cosmos, a sacred roadmap for the practice of tantra."

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In Magazine  Talking with the Walls  May 2010

"Famed New Yorker Nathan Slate Joseph's exhibition opens in Sundaram Tagore Gallery from May 5 – June 10. The Israeli-born artist unveils a new series of stunningly vibrant works. Scouring the streets of the city, he gathers scrap metal which he assembles into paintings and vessels. Intensely coloured, Joseph's art blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, East and West, nature and the manmade."

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Asian Art News  The Lure of Metal and Color  May 2010

"The Uzbek-Israeli artist Nathan Slate Joseph has had a life-long engagement with metal and color: For Joseph metal is something that is alive, something he relates to. Combined with his astute understanding of color; Joseph's art speaks to the nuances of the environment and his rich memories of time and place"

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HK Magazine  HK Picks: Nathan Slate Joseph  May 2010

"By exposing pigment-stained metal to rain, wind and sunshine, Uzbek-Israeli artist Nathan Slate Joseph achieves unpredictable colors on his new steel paintings and sculptures."

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Orientations  Calendar of Events  April 2010

"Joan Vennum is a New York-based artist who creates luminous paintings flooded with color. She is known for her dreamlike canvases covered with thin layers of repeated brushstrokes.This newest series of oils emerged from Vennum's recent journey through India. "

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ArtSlant  Sundaram Tagore Gallery - Hong Kong  April 2010

"New works by American artist Joan Vennum inspired by India. Composed of broad fields of colour, the paintings invite viewers into a realm governed by imagination and nature. Collapsed horizon lines conjure an infinite and encompassing space"

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C-Arts  Art Asia: Intriguing Western Outlook on the Asian Market  April 2010

"ART ASIA has busied itself with establishing a reputation as the unchallenged focal point for contemporary Asian Art collectors in the U.S. Sundaram Tagore Gallery's curated show "SIGNS: Contemporary Arab Art" was well received by both visitors and collectors and was cited by Yolande Whitcomb, ART ASIA's global relations representative, as an example of "ART ASIA's commitment to representing a broad range of Asian art."

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artdaily.org  Luminous, Dye-infused Works on Paper by Sohan Qadri at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  April 2010

"A poet, painter and Tantric yogi, Sohan Qadri is deeply engaged with spirituality. For this show, the artist, who lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark, unveils a new series of luminous, dye-infused works on paper exploring the notion of emptiness or voids. Qadri rhythmically serrates and punctures the surface of paper as part of his meditation practice. Relying on a language of orifices and elongated paths or lines, he abandons representation in search of transcendence. "

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Culture  The Poetics of Color: Natvar Bhavsar  April 2010

"Today, more than forty years after his arrival in the United States, Natvar Bhavsar is recognized by critics and historians as having extended the language of abstract painting."

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Modern Home  The Exquisite Color of India  March 2010

"Following his exhibitions at the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Indian-born artist Natvar Bhavsar's new works finally arrive at Sundaram Tagore Gallery for his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Natvar's creations are inspired by the Indian traditions of the spring festival Holi– in which people throw bright pigment powders on each other. The works are also influenced by the traditional Indian art form of Rangoli, where people use pigment powder, flour, sand, spices or chalk dust to create imagery on the floor. Devoted to the exploration of color, Natvar is widely acclaimed for his unique paintings."

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Prestige  RANG by Natvar Bhavsar  March 2010

"New York-based colour master Natvar Bhavsar's exhibition continues at Sundaram Tagore Gallery."

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ArtSlant  Rainbow in Translation  March 2010

"Closing this week at Sundaram Tagore's Hong Kong space is the first East Asian retrospective of Natvar Bhavsar, a famed Indian artist who made his career in New York and his name in Venice. I must agree with the acquisition curators of major museums around the globe: his work is stunning, It is at once immediate and meditative, and refreshingly bereft of conceptual conceit."

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Art Forum  Critics' Picks: Natvar Bhavsar  March 2010

"Natvar Bhavsar continues to push the boundaries of what is possible with pure color pigment in his solo exhibition "Rang," which consists of twenty-two paintings created during a twenty-year span, with many made in
the past two years."

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Hong Kong Gallery Guide  The Space Around Us  March 2010

Joan Vennum is New York-based artist who creates luminous, color-flooded paintings that are at once abstract and figurative. She is known for her dreamlike canvases covered with thin layers of repeated brushstrokes.

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Art Forum  Critics' Picks: Denise Green  February 2010

"The painting in Denise Green's latest exhibition, "Wonder and Evanescence," are florally themed but not flowery - they are serious latter-day abstractions. This is unsurprising given that the New York veteran trained at Hunter College some forty years ago with Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell."

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South China Morning Post  Preview: RANG  February 2010

"Natvar Bhavsar, best know for his pure-pigment paintings, says colours are like sounds that reverberate with rhythm. The New York-based Indian artist says that over the past 50 years he has created art that investigates the 'power and possibilities' of colour. In his latest exhibition, RANG, opening at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery next Wednesday, he further explores the subtle energy of colours"

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Time Out Hong Kong  Interview: Natvar Bhavsar  February 3 - 16 2010

"Ahead of his first Hong Kong exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, the world-renowned abstract expressionist and color field pioneer tells Mary Agnew about making it in New York, hanging with Rothko and Pollock, and the search for ecstacy."

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Asian Art News  Kim Joon at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  January / February 2010

"Korean artist Kim Joon has an enduring interest in hidden desires. Using animation photography Kim makes templates of three-dimensional human figures, which he then embellishes with bright tattoo designs. There is a striking visual quality to Kim's work that owes a great debt to his training as a painter."

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Asia Tatler  Tattoo and Taboo  December 2009

Tattoos are taboo in Korea - but it's a Korean artist named Kim Joon that's become well versed in the art of body painting.

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Contemporary Practices  Arab Art in Focus: A Short Survey  November 2009

"For a long time the Arab art scene fell under the radar screen of the western world. Only a short three years ago, hardly anyone spoke of modern and contemporary art from Arab countries. But, lo and behold, it has now come into the range of the international art world [...] Signs – Contemporary Arab Art at Sundaram Tagore Gallery presents for the first time a selection of seven Arab artists. For all of them, calligraphy plays a vital role in their consciousness and their work."

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Art Radar Asia  Korean artist Kim Joon discusses tattoos, taboos and his inspiration - interview  December 2009

The powerful works by Kim Joon depicting intriguingly 'tattooed' bodies beg for context. However, to more deeply understand Joon's meditation on the meaning of tattoo as a social phenomenon and uniquely human act, a viewer must first appreciate the man and his personal experience.

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Asian Art News  Elegance And Integrity  November 2009

"Any exhibition of contemporary Arab art is an important step in creating inter-cultural dialogue and understanding beyond the prejudices that prevail about Arabs and Muslims. Signs: Contemporary Arab Art, featuring the work of seven contemporary artists and curated by Karin Adrian von Roques, at New York's Sundaram Tagore Gallery, is one such show."

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CNN Go  Video: Korean artist Kim Joon and his show 'Tattoo and Taboo'  November 2009

Korean artist Kim Joon explores the human skin as an extension of canvas and tattoos as a manifestation of human desire.

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Weekend Weekly  Luxury Brands Embedded Upon Human Bodies  November 2009

"Having exhibited widely across the world, this is Kim Joon's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. The Korean artist uses digital printing techniques to superimpose images upon nude bodies, creating colorful body tattoos. When you look closer at the artworks, you discover that various luxury brands including Westwood and Ferragamo are embedded on the bodies."

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Hong Kong Gallery Guide  Cascading Time  November 2009

"It would be no exaggeration to call the works of Hiroshi Senju 'out of this world.' In his first solo show in Hong Kong at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, the celebrated Japanese artist reveals a new dimension to his inner vision. Transcendence flows through his sublime waterfalls and fills the landscape of canyons and cliffs, in a series of new works that are unveiled especially for the local audience."

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Financial Times  Guide Arts Around the World  October 2009

"Signs: Contemporary Arab Art, opening on Wednesday at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery, displays the work of seven contemporary Middle Eastern artists, in particular their treatment of ancient Islamic art. Traditional calligraphy and symbols infuse the work of Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad, who distills Arabic letters into abstract shapes, while Syrian artist Khaled Al-Saa'i draws on Sufi philosophy, painting words into spacious landscapes."

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The Gulf Today  Signing on Middle East  October 2009

"Signs: Contemporary Arab Art, a groundbreaking art exhibition from Sundaram Tagore galleries, New York, to run from October 14 to November 14 offers a rare glimpse into the Arab art world. The first of its kind in New York, the exhibition presents the work of seven influential artists from various countries in the Middle East"

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ARTgazine  Marilyn Monroe: The Pop Art Queen  September 2009

Marilyn Monroe, with emblematic ruby red lips,significant black eyeliner and trademark white-blonde hair, became the Pop Art Queen - often celebrated as a symbol of female sexuality buy sometimes used to condemn society's commercialization of sex...Contemporary artists continued to explore different concepts in representing Marilyn in our times.

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ARTgazine  A Vibrant Platform for Modern and Contemporary Art  September 2009

"The Art section of Hong Kong International Art and Antiques Fair 2009 will feature exceptional works by celebrated artists in a diversity of artistic styles and media. Sundaram Tagore Gallery of New York, Beverly Hills and Hong Kong will show work that encourages a dialogue between the East and West. Featured artists include Hiroshi Senju(Japan), Sohan Qadri (India) and Kim Joon (Korea) along with Susan Weil (USA), Natvar Bhavsar (India)."

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Jet Magazine  See The Water, Enter the Mist  September 2009

"If one encounters Hiroshi Senju's work in the Tokyo International Airport
hanging high from the ceiling or under the atmospheric lighting of the
Tokyo Grand Hyatt Hotel, one will surely be moved by their power."

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City Magazine  Bringing Happiness Home: Hong Kong International Art and Antiques Fair 2009  September 2009

"Aside from exhibiting a wide variety of antiques, the Hong Kong International Art and Antiques fair has also invited contemporary artists to display their latest works. A specially presented work in the fair is Day Falls Night Falls VI by the Japanese artist Hiroshi Senju who was the first Asian artist to receive an individual award in the Venice Biennale. His painting style is a blend of traditional Japanese painting style and contemporary aesthetics."

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Time Out Hong Kong  Preview: Hiroshi Senju  September 2009

"Aesthetically, when the East meets West seamlessly, the results can be staggering. Such is the case for Japanese artist Hiroshi Senju whose waterfall paintings have been renowned for years. In 1995, he became the first Asian artist to receive an individual award at the Venice Biennale, propelling him to become one of Japan's most celebrated artists."

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THE Magazine  Hiroshi Senju Haruka Naru Aoi Hikari (New Light from Afar)  August 2009

"Humans need to commune with the elements of nature and art at its best can provide such an experience of communion. Artists often reflect on nature and transform it into intensely condensed metaphors, poems, and songs.Through his sublime paintings, Japanese artist Hiroshi Senju has contemplated multiple facets of water, especially its fundamental power, for almost twenty years [...]n essence, he transforms solid materials from the earth to create images of elusive aquatic torrents."

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Art Radar Asia  Korean Eye exhibition in Saatchi Gallery London extended due to popularity  August 2009

There is perhaps no greater indicator of changing tastes in London's contemporary art scene and the West's hunger for fresh cultural and artistic influences than the masses of people who came to witness the 'Korean Eye: Moon Generation' Exhibition, which showcases the finest contemporary Korean art at the renowned Saatchi Gallery in London.

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South China Morning Post  Let the Sun Shine On  August 2009

"A Hong Kong gallery is taking an upbeat attitude by presenting major names in its exhibitions [...] Even as galleries along the city's arts and antiques hub, Hollywood Road axe show and offer fewer high-priced works to tide over the global credit crunch, Sundaram Tagore continues to showcase major pieces by the artists it represents."

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Asian Art News  Hosook Kang at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  July/August 2009

Korean-born painter Hosook Kang detonates a series of delicate explosions in her second solo show, entitled In-flight. With miniscule flecks of paint she creates the sensation of infinite particles gently dissipating.

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World Sculpture News  Barry Freedland at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  July/August 2009

"Since graduating from his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in sculpture over 20 years ago, Barry Freedland has been working with robotics and computer programs to make a series of machines to make art for him. He raises questions about the notion of the artist/genius alone in his studio, who pushes the act of creation as far as his physical skills will allow him to."

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Hong Kong Economic Times  Opportunities in the Arts  July 2009

"As the number of galleries and auction houses in Hong Kong rises, there
are an increasing number of work opportunities in the arts. The presence
of overseas galleries is helping to boost the standards of local art
institutions. Gallery owner, Sundaram Tagore, great-grandson of the
influential Indian poet and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore,
maintains high standards for the internationally-sourced artwork displayed
in his gallery. "

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Asian Art Newspaper  Profile on Hiroshi Senju  January 2009

And Finally, after being interested in the sky, I discovered the waterfall. I felt something clicking as if I recognized some kind of DNA that I had in me, like a past memory. I find that a lot of people whether they are Europeans, Americans or Japanese have similar feelings towards waterfalls. I find that these emotions go beyond the boundaries East/West, or old/new. Once I understood what art was all about and that art should go beyond people's boundaries, it was very important for me to further explore that path.

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Art Observed  Susan Weil blueprint, (S. & A. Cohen collection), exhibited at Sotheby's Women exhibition & Gagosian's Go Figure Exhibition  July, 2009 - April, 2010

Susan Weil blueprint, (Steve and Alexandra Cohen collection), exhibited at Sotheby's Women exhibition as well as Gagosian's Go Figure exhibition.
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Pop Artists, 1964  photographs by Ken Heyman  July 2009

Sundaram Tagore Gallery artist, Ken Heyman, has Warhol portfolio published by Gagosian.
Pop Artists 1964

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Art in America  Lee Waisler  June - July 2009

Very large close-ups of faces greeted viewers entering Lee Waisler's recent show . . . It is often said that a portrait is as much a picture of the artist as of the sitter, and through his selection Waisler implies that their collective outlook on life is indeed is own philosophic self-portrait.

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Decorati  Insider Guide to LA's Contemporary Art Scene  July 2009

Sundaram Tagore Gallery showing of Hiroshi Senju's Waterfalls are nature inspired, well crafted paintings that express movement.

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Desi Talk  Bhavsar among biggest names at Venice Biennale  June, 2009

"Among the biggest names at Fortuny was Bhavsar, the only Indian painter who finds a place besides that of old and modern masters in any serious European view of world art."

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The Standard  I, robot  June 2009

"At the Sundaram Tagore Gallery on Wednesday night, an army of robot hands will be creating works of art for the "Synthetic Surrogate" exhibition. The robots, each mad of a rubber cast of Freedland's hand holding a pen attached to the body of a toy car, are programmed to reach to their surroundings. They might dash away as you get close, or be self-conscious and stop working as you watch"

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Time Out Hong Kong  Preview: Sythetic Surrogate  June 2009

"For his hotly anticipated upcoming show at Sundaram Tagore, Barry Freedland will further his use of technology to explore the issues of artistic agency and human identity in our increasingly tech-enhanced world."

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Natvar Bhavsar  IN-FINITUM To Open at The Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia  June 6, 2009

Natvar Bhavsar's painting ABDHEE 2006 from a private European collection, will be exhibited in the exhibition IN-FINITUM at Museo Fortuny in Venice during the Venice Biennale.

The infinite
Questioning 'infinity' is a spiritual journey. The human condition strives for perfection, hungers to be in pursuit of completion. On this quest for the imperceptible, the unimaginable, the incomprehensible, man gets confronted with his boundaries and struggles with what is unachievable. It is in this part of incompleteness that the infinite resides, the void, the recipient and source of the all and everything, of the none and nothing. The infinite as a never-ending road to completion, knowledge and enlightenment has inspired intellectuals, artists, scientists and literati since the beginning of reasoning times. Their discoveries and writings, artistic impressions and thoughts will shape another segment of the In-finitum exhibition.

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West East Magazine  Sundaram Tagore  May 2009

""My ball rolled down the hill and when I ran after I saw tiger cubs. That was what made me aware that we had been living in a jungle all this time," says Sundaram Tagore with a smile emerging on his lips."

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Brooklyn Rail  Judith Murray: Continuum  April 16 - May 23, 2009

Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture:
Murray's radiant painting represent a case for the perceptual and the tactile, as well as for an inclusive, open-ended formalism. They look easy, and not, to make, the result of spontaneous bursts of creation as well as arduous structuring and re-structuring. Their ambiguity and darkness are overridden by a fierce optimism powered by a belief in beauty that is both canonical and dissident, idealized and lashed by intimations of mortality.

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Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal  Robert Polidori Exhibition  MAY 2009

Why wouldn’t the walls have recorded and layered, one on top of the other, all the emotional vibes of the rooms’ successive occupants and visitors? That is the question that has obsessed photographer Robert Polidori for over twenty years, and that makes his photographs of interiors and exteriors so moving and haunting, long after we have seen them.

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Newsweek  Signs of Life in the Art Market  April 2009

The contemporary-art market may be down, but it is definitely not out. In fact, these unKoonsian times, like many downturns before, allow artists and dealers to be more creative, and collectors to focus on the fundamentals […] Sundaram Tagore, a grandnephew of Indian poet Rabindranath and a dealer with galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong says good art works by key artists—especially in the $500,000 and over range—have been moving.

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The Peak Hong Kong  Down but not Out  March 2009

Serious collectors are art's Big New Hope. Foretold is a return to romance of true collectors, long pushed out of the market as prices escalated, returning to the fold to purchase art for its quality and meaning [...] Discerning collectors have collections to assemble, rather than investments, and are not swayed by the latest trends. "There is a sea-change, they are not interested in the glib or the clever," says Sundaram Tagore, who has galleries in Hong Kong and New York. "They want to access what is beautiful and eternal. If it is cool it becomes dated," he says.

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South China Morning Post  Preview: Here and Now at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  March 2009

Art historian Sundaram Tagore's doctoral thesis looks at Indian artists' response to European modernisation from the 1940s to 1980s. As a curator, however, his focus is more on the here and now. Hence the title of his gallery's latest group exhibition by 18 international artists, which opens today at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery's Hong Kong branch.

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Asian Art News  Susan Weil at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  March 2009

Susan Weil's paintings under the title Motion Pictures, are world-class pieces by a world-class painter. To see them on a Hong Kong gallery wall is gratifying twice. Not only does the show raise the bar along Hollywood Road and its environs; it also brings out a certain Asian-ness in the work—in the color, some of its subjects, its mix of material—that one might otherwise have missed.

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Time Out Hong Kong  Her Story  February 2009

Clare Morin talks to the historically significant American Artist Susan Weil.

There is a sense of rarity to the exhibition Motion Pictures that opens at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery this fortnight. The show will be focusing on new works by the 78-year old American artist Susan Weil, a respected figure in modern art history whose life story is truly extraordinary.

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Hong Kong Tatler  Dining with the Stars: Sundaram Tagore on Zuma  February 2009

Since opening his eponymous gallery on Hollywood Road in 2008, Sundaram Tagore has become well acquainted with Zuma, for it was here that the art expert and lover of all things Japanese held his launch party [...] Tagore who also owns galleries in his adopted home town of New York and Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, decided to set up in Hong Kong as he loves the unchecked energy of the city.

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Hong Kong Tatler  Dining with the Stars: Sundaram Tagore on Lei Garden  February 2009

One may see life as a journey to explore new cultural experiences, but there is a greater challenge for curator Sundaram Tagore: he has always had a strong passion for the blending of cultures, whether in contemporary art or gastronomy. While his galleries in New York and now Hong Kong go a long way towards satisfying this desire in the realm of art, few restaurants can satisfy his appetite.

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News India Times  Asia in American Art  February 2009

. . . He [Natvar Bhavsar] was also awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1975. His paintings are in more than 800 public and private collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney."

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ARTnews  An Oasis in the Desert  February 2009

Visitors at Art Dubai congregate at Urpaana, a 2004 panting by Indian artist Natvar Bhavsar.

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New York Times  Gaze East and Dream  January 29, 2009

By HOLLAND COTTER

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/arts/design/30mind.html

"The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989," a strange and often beautiful show at the Guggenheim, offers glimpses of familiar artists, but also lots of strangers.

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Artipedia  ART ASIA BASEL 09 Launch  January 15, 2009

Supporters of ART ASIA's inaugural fair reported great satisfaction with attendance: Sundaram Tagore, executive director of SUNDARAM TAGORE GALLERY shared, "Due to the financial meltdown in the US, our expectations were extremely low. However, we did exceedingly well at ART ASIA.

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The Third Mind  American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989  January 30 - April 19, 2009

EXHIBITION REVEALS POWERFUL IMPACT OF ASIAN ARTS AND THOUGHT ON AMERICAN ARTISTS FROM THE LATE 19TH THROUGH 20TH CENTURIES

The Third Mind examines the aspirations to understand and internalize Asian art and thought among Asian-American and Asian-born artists working in the United States, identifying the catalytic effect of the transmission of "Eastern" sensibilities and forms into the American vanguard by artists such as Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Isamu Noguchi, and Natvar Bhavsar.

Approximately 270 Works by 100 Artists and Literary Figures

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Natvar Bhavsar at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverly Hills  ArtsEtoile  January 2009

By Emily Waldorf
Natvar Bhavsar's mesmerizing exhibition, Rang, just opened at the Beverly Hills Sundaram Tagore gallery and is well worth a visit. Bhavsar's large scale paintings are bold, bright, beautiful and reminiscent of the abstract expressionists and color field painters of yore but with an undeniably original Indian influence. In order to achieve his signature style, Bhavsar carefully and deliberately sifts layers of pure pigment powder onto canvas using different tools such as sieves and screens. Bhavsar's work draws the viewer in, commanding serious contemplation. After a few minutes you can almost feel rich textiles, constellations and cloud-like patterns emerging from the mesmerizing layers of thick color.

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Antiques and the Arts Online  ART20 Explores Cross-Currents in Art  January 2009

Sundaram Tagore Gallery making it's first appearance at ART20, placed the emphasis on the exchange of ideas between Western and non-Western cultures.

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Asianart.com  Natvar Bhavsar's Cosmos  January 2009

Like Pollock [Natvar Bhavsar's] paintings are impossible to copy and prints do not transmit their raw majesty.

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Genlux  The Art Issue  January 2009

Features Hiroshi Senju, Sohan Qadri, Nathan Slate Joseph and Hosook Kang. Photographs by Marc Baptiste.
Also includes an interview with Sundaram Tagore.

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Art Asia Pacific  When Disorderly Worlds Collide: Hong Kong  Almanac 2009; Volume 4

New York and Los Angeles dealer Sundaram Tagore opened his third space with a show entitled "East-West" that continues his family's legacy of intercultural dialogue.

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China Daily  Starting with the Same Brush  December 29, 2008

"...Sundaram Tagore, the great grandson of the master poet and Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), has championed over the years. Contributing his share of the effort to stir up the local cultural hodgepodge, the man opened his eponymous gallery - the Sundaram Tagore Gallery - on Hollywood road in April this year."

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ARTINFO  Megan Craig in New York  December 25, 2008

"In this recalibrated metaphyics, color is central to the nature of reality rather than an aspect of our perception of it. Patches of color, and often surprising ones (you'll find giant swaths of yellow and pink and peaches both bold and subdued), shape her compositions, generating warmth and coolness and creating areas of sharpness and softness. More and more in Craig's work, color is not an afterthought but the thought itself."

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/29879/megan-craig-in-new-york/

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Palm Beach Daily News  Art Sales See Economic Ceiling  December 5, 2008

"Sundaram Tagore Gallery was offering medium-sized, dye-and-ink-on-paper works by Indian artist Sohan Qadri..."

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Where Magazine  Sundaram's Choice  December 2008

"The latest edition comes in the form of Sundaram Tagore [Gallery], a bright space filled with vibrant contemporary works personally selected by it's namesake, a notable New York-based curator and descendant of influential poet and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore."

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THE  Susan Weil: Motion Pictures  December 2008

"A longtime fixture in the New York art scene, Susan Weil has always maintained an adventurous attitude toward material and form even as she continued to paint self-assuredly in both abstract and representational modes."

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Baccarat  Meditation Man  December 2008 - February 2009

"Qadri creates two-colour works on paper, which despite his minimalist approach exhibit a multitude of subtle shadings."

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HKstylebook  Seeing is Believing  December 2008

"Currently showing at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Qadri's paintings are products of deep meditation and natural textile dyes. Simple circles, lines and squares are punctured or serrated in meticulously, powerful symbols that seem to breath and expand, reinforcing the concentration of energies like a yantra or mandala."

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Artworks  Insight: Ricardo Mazal  Winter 2008

"After taking hundreds of photographs, Mazal repeated the steps he developed by blending them with cropped art on his computer. He produced digital sketches, some horizontal and some vertical, to showcase his different interpretations of the forest."

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News India Times  Show of New Paintings by Bhavsar Opened November 25  November 28, 2008

"Bhavsar's paintings are in the tradition of great art through the ages...The roller-coaster of the art market might induce us to lose sight of the varieties of art. 'RANG: Natvar Bhavsar' will restore the balance."

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L'Italo Americano  Vittorio Matino Exhibits at Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills  November 13, 2008

Gallerist Sundaram Tagore says, "Vittorio Matino has a brilliant understanding of color. His trips to the US and Paris in the mid-1970s deepened his knowledge of Color Field School, and he, in turn, extended its language. His work is a unique contribution, and his career is long and deep, spanning half a century."

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The Brooklyn Rail  Merrill Wagner  November 2008

"Thoughts of Form and Color brings together two major strains in Wagner's work with a minor third. The large cut-out wall pieces, evocative of plant life, comprised her last solo exhibition at Tagore, which integrated some freestanding sculpture (the minor third) but excluded the more classically geometric abstractions found here."

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Asian Art News  Universal Waterfalls  November 2008

"I started painting by brush," Senju says. "It didn't really work the way I wanted it to, It was more like the Hudson River School or the work of 19th-Century European artists, which was not what I wanted to do. The more I painted the more I felt to the two most important elements on the earth - gravity and water. And I thought: why don't I try to use gravity, to pour down the paint from the top?"

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South China Morning Post  City Reviews: In your Mind's Eye; Sundaram Tagore Gallery  October 28, 2008

"...Less-colour-saturated but no less intuitive are the pieces by Natvar Bhavsar, who sprinkles pigment delicately on his canvases in an echo of Jackson Pollock, although the works' understated quality reflects a gentle Asian sensibility that's the opposite of the American painter's frenetic, ego-driven style..."

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Financial Times Weekend

"...Descended from a renowned Bengali artistic and literary family, Sundaram Tagore was born and raised in Calcutta. In his late teens he briefly moved near to Vancouver, later studying art history at the College of Wooster, Ohio, and the University of Oxford and museology at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice..."

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Asian Art News  Ken Heyman at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  September/October 2008

"Ken Heyman's work is both marvelously poetic and a spontaneous celebration of tribalism; tribalism as a unifier not a divider. He achieves this trough the simple humanity of his work, as revealed in his recent show."

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Sculpture  Nathan Slate Joseph: Pure Pigment, Constructed Form  September 2008


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Asian Art News  Ideas Before Commerce  September/October 2008

"When Sundaram Tagore established his New York gallery in 2000, a dynamic new phase opened up in the East-West art dialogue."

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Art Forum  Seeing Rauschenberg Seeing  September 2008

"...At the end of the summer session in 1949, Rauschenberg and Weil moved to New York. There they experimented with blueprints, the most famous - an impression of the female body - being among Rauschenberg's earliest work with printmaking."

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The New York Sun  Finding a Summer Niche  August 5, 2008

"Sundaram Tagore, whose galleries in Chelsea, Los Angeles and Hong Kong specialize in international art, says the stigma against summer shows may be changing with a globalized economy. While Mr. Tagore acknowledges that many of his clients have left for the summer, new ones emerge. 'European collectors are coming in, offsetting some of the local sales,' he said. 'There are a lot of Italian, German and British tourists. And for them it doesn't feel that expensive.'"

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Art in America  Hiroshi Senju: Sundaram Tagore Gallery  September 2008

"...Senju creates, from the most simple of low-tech means, cinematic spectacles that appear to be in motion. They are startlingly beautiful works - perhaps too beautiful, since we tend to be wary of beauty - and raise the question of optical trickery, although the trickery is completely transparent..."

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Art Ltd'  Specialty: World Art  Sept/Oct 2008

"With galleries in three cities across the world, and plans for two more, Sundaram Tagore tends to take a global perspective."

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Celebrity Society  'Spices and Silk' Opening at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Beverly Hills  June/July 2008

Artwork by Nathan Slate Joseph - a celebration of texture & color, East & West, and the industrial & the natural; "Spices and Silk" opened Saturday, May 31st at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills. Nathan Slate Joseph's work has been heavily influenced by the colors characteristic of countries along the Silk Road - Morocco, India, China, Indonesia, and Mongolia. The exhibit consists of steel and pigment reliefs and vessels.

Curator Sundaram Tagore explains, "Nathan's work is a mix of East and West, and although he has been a serious part of the fabric of New York City's art scene for many years, his work has a universal element to it." The opening was a great success and the exhibition will run through June 30th.

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HK Magazine  HK Picks: Humanity  July 18, 2008

"Ken Heyman's retrospective exhibition showcases portraits ranging from villagers in Bali to Pablo Picasso, Marlyn Monroe and Andy Warhol..."

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Jewish Times Asia  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Opens in Hong Kong  July/August 2008

"Sundaram Tagore, a New York-based curator and gallerist, has announced the opening of a Hong Kong Gallery. The Gallery focuses on a dialogue between the cultures of East a West while filling the need for better representation of international art in Hong Kong."

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Asian Art News  A New Face on the Block  July/August 2008


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The Blind Swimmer  Stan Gregory  June 25, 2008

"...[Gregory's] arabesque lines of the paintings and the dynamic positive and negative shapes call to mind Islamic calligraphy and images of whirling dervishes. The paintings are joyful and both the lines and the colors have a lot of movement and energy..."

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Hong Kong Economic Journal  June 15, 2008


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Art Exit  Preview Exhibition: Bruce Porter  June 2008

Gallerist Sundaram Tagore said " It is very exciting to exhibit the work of Bruce Porter for the first time... Porter works on an abstract level - his work is energetic because of the dense lines and configuration of forms - what results is primordial and sensual..."

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C for Culture  June 2008


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Art & Auction  Damsels on Demand  June 2008


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Art Knowledge News  NATHAN SLATE JOSEPH AT SUNDARAM TAGORE GALLERY  May, 2008

"Nathan's work is a mix of East and West, and although he has been a serious part of the fabric of New York City's art scene for many years, his work has a universal element to it."

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Art Asia Pacific  The Business of Cultural Diplomacy  May 2008

"Art, globalization and inter-cultural dialogue are themes dear to Tagore. The latter populates his conversation and is reflected in the work he shows. Recent exhibits at his Chelsea gallery have included the metalwork of an Israeli-American, Nathan Slate Joseph; the lush, Scandinavian-influenced paintings by the Indian artist Sohan Qadri; and the ethereal waterfalls of Japanese painter Hiroshi Senju. Tagore's gallery statemnt, afterall, is to develop exhibitions and host events that "engage in spiritual, social and aesthetic dialogues with traditions other than our own."..."

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Hong Kong Tatler  Showtime: Hot Import  May 2008

"...His [Sundaram Tagore] galleries located in New York and Los Angeles, focus on 'a global community of artists, and particularly, on those artists who are engaged in cross-cultural dialogues between East and West.' He asserts, 'We were passionate about thinking globally long before it became fashionable.' So the only mystery is, why has it taken Tagore so long to hit Hong Kong?"

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The Standard  New Gallery  May 30, 2008

Their inaugural group show consists of five Eastern and five Western artists selected from the roster of artists that the gallery represents. Tagore continued: This exhibition presents a visual to the exchange between Western and Eastern cultures, and will introduce audiences to our distinct aesthetic that we hope will be a welcome addition to the artistic scene in Hong Kong. We will also continue to host additional non-profit and cultural events, incorporating performance and installation art, literature, film and more. We will push the envelope."

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The Wall Street Journal Asia  May 28, 2008

"The traditional celebratory sound of crackling fireworks and beating of drums overpowered the din of traffic as lion dancers celebrated the opening of the local branch of the New York-based Sundaram Tagore Gallery."

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Bloomberg.com  Gagosian, Tagore Boost Hong Kong's Ambitions as Asia Art Hub  May 27, 2008

"Hong Kong's ambition to be Asia's art hub received another boost with the recent arrival of three top galleries: Gagosian, Sundaram Tagore and Tang Contemporary. Sundaram Tagore opened on the city's gallery street, Hollywood Road, on May 9."

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Westside Today  Beverly Hills Welcomes Tagore Gallery  May 2008

The Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills held its grand opening on April 5, 2008 . . . Tagore has brilliant insight into bringing the aesthetic dialogue to cross-cultural exchange and selecting international artists that represent his vision of cultural transcendence exquisitly."

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Sing Tao Daily  May 7, 2008

"...With two other locations in New York and Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Sundaram Tagore Gallery represents some of the most well known contemporary artists, such as Hiroshi Senju and Judith Murray..."

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The Standard  Home Where Art and Heart are for Gallerist Tagore

"Tagore's Galleries in New York, Los Angeles and now Hong Kong combine visual arts with other forms such as poetry reading, dance performances, music, films and charity funding."

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Hong Kong Economic Times  May 7, 2008


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South China Morning Post  US-based Gallery Aims to Thrust Local Art onto International Stage  May 7, 2008

"Gallery operator Sundaram Tagore - great-grandson of Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature - said he chose Hong Kong over many other potential sites including Dubai and Shanghai."

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Ming Pao  May 7, 2008


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New York Sun  Bits and Pieces of a Lavish Palace  MAY 2008

Robert Polidori, the token photographer among the savants, insisted that photography was set by physics.

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Book Intro  In Search of Self

Anil Revri's elegant and subtle geometric abstractions are lyrical visual poems that induce contemplation. At once sensual and serene, they resonate in the viewer's interion and exterior worlds.

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ARTnews  $25 Billion and Counting  May 2008

"The Indian art market just took off about five years ago and has really heated up even further in the last two," says Sundaram Tagore, who has galleries in New York and Beverly Hills, as well as a Hong Kong branch slated to open this month. In addition to demand from the Indian diaspora and Indian collectors, Tagore says, part of the growth has been fueled by American corporations with expanding businesses in India and China.

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Prestige  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Opening  May 2008

Sundaram Tagore Gallery Hong Kong will hold its grand opening on May 9 at 57-59 Hollywood Road. The inaugural group show will consist of five Eastern and five Western artists chosen from among those the gallery represents. The great grandson of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Sundaram Tagore comes from 14 generations of artists, writers and poets. Tagore also has galleries in New York and Beverly Hills.

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Kee  The Essence of Life  May 2008

"Tagore explains how his passion for art has enabled him to dissolve differences in cultures and bring them together in a unique and creative way, denoting that art can transcend all culture and social standings."

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Inside Out  The Importance of Art  May 2008

"Established in 2000, the Sundaram Tagore Gallery has become one of the most important alternative cultural spaces in New York, with a focus on a dialogue between Western and non-Western cultures."

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Asian Art News  New Openings  May/June 2008

"Gallerist Sundaram Tagore said, "All these artists have spent their lives working in and exploring different Eastern and Western cultures - including India, China, Nepal, Japan, Italy, Holland and America. Together they create an incredible mosaic and foster an intercultural dialogue that reflects a diversity of thought and artistic style."

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ARTnews  Reviews: New York; Ken Heyman: Sundaram Tagore  May 2008

"Ken Heyman began his career as a photographer accompanying Margaret Mead to Bali in 1957 and, with her, producing two groundbreaking anthropological studies. He went on to publish more than 40 book, and shot countless series for Life magazine."

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Gulf News Friday  A Master's Stroke  April 17, 2008


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Westside Today  Provacative Portraits  April, 2008

"It's about finding out who these people are, and finding out who I am in the process."

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Prestige  Art, No Commerce  April 2008

"These 'philosophical discussions' are fundamental to Tagore's vision for his galleries, or 'cultural spaces' as he prefers to call them. Unlike galleries that buy and sell art solely as a monetary transaction, Tagore has a mission to create a global community of artists and foster a dialogue between Western and non-Western cultures."

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Art + Auction  Back East  March 2008

"Among the returning dealers is New York's Sundaram Tagore Gallery, which is bringing a selection of richly hued abstractions, priced between $25,000 and $250,000, by the likes of Natavar Bhavsar and Hiroshi Senju, who were born in Gujurat, India, and Tokyo, respectively."

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Art Info  Sparking Dialogue Across Oceans  February 6th, 2008

"The spiritual basis of our gallery is to create and support an intercultural dialogue between a world community of living artists."

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The Hong Kong Trader  HK a New Palette for US Galleries  February 6th, 2008

"When it came to choosing where to open his first overseas gallery, Sundaram Tagore, operator of the eponymous US-based gallery, knew it had to be Hong Kong. His experience over the years travelling to the city, which he used as his Asia business base, convinced him that it was the ideal place for his new venture."

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Sunday Morning Post  24 hours: Sundaram Tagore  January 6th, 2008

"...the New York based gallery owner tells Kevin Kwong why the eyes, like the mind, need to be exercised daily."

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Art in America  Merrill Wagner at Sundaram Tagore  November 2007

"..Merrill Wagner's handsome wall reliefs (all 2006), made of steel salvaged from a Pennsylvania plumbing parts manufacturer, evoke stylized garden plants...The brushy application of rust-preventative paint (browns, greens, yellows) displayed a Minimalist's attention to surface... "

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Gettysburg Times  5 Sculptures by New York Artist Being Placed in Town for Arts Fest  October 4, 2007

Workers installed a series of gleaming steel sculptures created by renowned New York artist Nathan Slate Joseph, being exhibited in Gettysburg this weekend n cinjunction with 'The Gettysburg Festival:Prelude and Portraits'..."

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Art & Antiques  Hiroshi Senju  June 2007

"Senju is hardly new on the scene. Born and raised in Tokyo, where he received a Ph.D. in art from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Senju represented Japan at the Venice Biennale in 1995, winning an honorable mention."

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Private  Robert Polidori | After The Flood  June 2007

After the great success of the world premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Polidori brings to Venice the touching and paradoxical allure of the devastation left behind in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina.

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Booklist Online  Judith Murray: Phases and Layers  June 1 & 15, 2007

"Meditative scenes of the artist working in her studio and adding layers of paint to the large canvas . . . are paired with Murray's fascinating voice-over observations. Scenes from a 2005 New York art exhibit, slides of her work, and commentary from an art historian and other experts add depth to this illuminating program."

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Art & Antiques  Hiroshi Senju  June, 2007

"...His art reflects [this] geographical and cultural duality, for his approach combines ancient Japanese painting practices with modern Western imagery."

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The Standard  Gallery Boss Looks at Going Global  May 25th, 2007

"As one of the first galleries to create a global dialogue through art, Tagore looks for global artists who have traveled and lived in cultures other than thier own. Thier artwork which combines a diversity of cultural colors and painting techniques, talks to viewers as if in dialogue."

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Home News Tribune  Entering the Realm of Experience  May 21, 2007

"One does not merely look at a Bhavsar work, one is transported by it. It is as if the artist has bottled up the night sky, dusted it in poweder pigment and cast it out in great dreamlike bursts. The result is a textured canvas that pulses with dimension; grainy up close, smooth and wispy from afar."

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DNA India  The Art of The World  May 10th, 2007

" Tagore takes the works of his stable of artists from city to city. His gallery has an eclectic mix of European, American, and diasporic Indian artists..."

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New York Times  The Details Are in the Beauty  May 6th, 2007

"Yet the absence of recognizable imagery in his work aligns Mr. Bhavsar more with American traditions of abstract art, and in particular color field painting; one is reminded variously of the work of the American painters Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Jules Olitski."

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ARTNews  Merrill Wagner: Sundaram Tagore  May 2007

"Together the works reflected Wagner's long-standing interest in the interplay between the abstract and the representational..."

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Orientations  International Fairs  May, 2007

"...Sundaram Tagore Gallery exhibits art that seeks to go beyond boundaries of many kinds."

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Newsday  Scratching the 'Surface' and teasing your senses  April 20, 2007

"The Islip show 'Surface Impressions' features topographical works such as La Forza Del Destina "

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Courier News c-n.com  Lyrical abstractions hold court at the Zimmerli  April 16, 2007

"Bhavsar's imagery conjures cosmic impressions, like nebulae expanding in a brilliant dance of colored light or stars mingling in a gravitational waltz through space."

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The Star Ledger  Layers of Brilliance  April 13, 2007

"The artist gets a remarkable range out of the method, producing big, star-studded Milky Ways on indigo backgrounds, swirling smile storms, pimply white surfaces that look like clotted cream, and floating lozenges of color, usually a square centered on a contrasting color, that remind you of Mark Rothko."

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Art Info  Vittorio Matino at NY's Sundaram Tagore  April 13, 2007

"Matino ... paints within the western abstract tradition, using color and the physical act of painting with a spirituality akin to the aesthetics of Eastern civilization."

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Art Daily.org  Trans-Chromatics - Vittorio Matino at Sundaram Tagore  APRIL 10, 2007

"For the past decade, Matino has explored the color tradition of India, while continuing to develop a capacity for transforming the limits of our perception off color."

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Art in America  Review of Exhibitions: Nathan Slate Joseph at Sundaram Tagore  April 2007

"[Nathan Slate Joseph's] reliefs equally suggest the natural world and the exuberant energies of Abstract Expressionism."

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The Brooklyn Rail  Flowers at Sundaram Tagore  April, 2007

"Her current exhibition at Sundaram Tagore splits the difference with a collection of new representational constructions..."

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Own Magazine  Hiroshi Senju  February 2007

"Hiroshi Senju, one of the world's most revered and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, is a painter with divinity."

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Arabian Business  The Art of Business  March 25th, 2007

"Today, everything is condensed in time. What took 100 years, today takes about ten years and that's largely because of the internet revolution."

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Desi Talk  Rutgers 1st university in U.S. to hold solo show by South Asian artist  March 23, 2007

"...With the opening of a comprehensive show of 50 or more paintings spanning four decades of the work of Indian-born New York artist Natvar Bhavsar in the special gallery of its Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, became the first university in the country to host such a solo show (March 11 - July 22) by an artist of South Asian Descent..."

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Desi Talk  A selective overview of 4 decades of Bhavsar's art opens at Rutgers  March 16, 2007

"...It is not that there are just layers and layers of pigments, some dispersed by the flow of air in Bhavsar's Greene Street loft studio - not just 80 layers as Kwint said, but as many as 200 - but there are meanings too deep for ordinary cognition, meanings too ancient and new, bizarre and supremely rational, for us even to try and put into words..."

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Khaleej Times  Dubai Needs to Identify the Right Thinkers of Culture  March 9th, 2007

"Dubai is at the crossroads of the east and west, and it is taking charge as one of the great centres of commerce, tourism, and art"

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Art & Antiques  Coming to America  March 1, 2007

"...Hiroshi Senju, one of Japan's most revered and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists showed 27 murals at Japan's Yamatane Museum of Art..."

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Artnews  Seeing Life in Empty Rooms  MARCH 2007

Robert Polidori's haunting photographs if interiors and buildings reveal the everyday lives left behind in Chernobyl, Havana, New Orleans, and Versailles by Hilarie M. Sheets.

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Art in America  Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  March 2007

"Murray's paintings . . . speak with sophistication and energy."

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Wasifiri  Hide and Seek with Rebels  March 2007

"...The Milky Way and Other Fairy Tales (2004) was an epic installation in which fifty one pairs of hand-blown orbs were suspended within the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York..."

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Bomb Magazine  Robert Polidori (Interview, Photography)  SPRING 2007

I met Robert Polidori through a photograph he had taken of the Versailles restoration. It captivated me. Seeing so many layers of history in one image was astonishing. So was being spurred to imagine Versailles as a real dwelling defined by the remnants of its inhabitants, and all the changes in history they and it had undergone.

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The New York Blade  Flags of our Lovers: Artist Michael Petry on Gays in the Military  January 26, 2007

"Political art is back, with artists responding to the American invasion of Iraq in full force . . . [Petry] raises intriguing questions. Why should we love our country when this nation forces us undercover and blatantly discriminates?"

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Forbes  Artsourcing  January, 2007

A Chat with Sundaram Tagore, ambassador for India's exploding art market.

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ARTnews  Reviews: New York: Judith Murray  January 2007

"...What was most alluring about the recent works was the way Murray built up their surfaces to convey depth and motion. Her dexterity with paint seems to have released her creative energy and pinned it to the canvas..."

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Art & Antiques  Ahead of the Curve  Collector's Sourcebook 2006/2007

"...Now working with painted paper ritually immersed in ink and dye and then serrated, Qadri has developed a 'new' methodology of painting beautiful spiritual work where the artists is in a calm introspective state..."

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New York Review of Books  After Katrina  November 2006

The show concerns the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s ruinous pass over New Orleans on August 29, 2005, as recorded by the distinguished architectural photographer Robert Polidori in four visits between September 2005 and April 2006; it is being attended, to judge from the day this viewer was present, by more youthful African-Americans than usually make their way into the Met.

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Financial Times  CRUELTY OF THE STORM EXPOSED  OCTOBER 2006

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Robert Polidori’s astonishing After the Flood at Flowers East is one of the finest sustained series of photographs for years and that very rare thing, a set of pictures in which intellectual doubt and graphical certainty combine to something approaching perfection.

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Art in America  Barth Ranges Wide  October 2006

"Both the evolution and constancy of Barth's concerns were evident in a small survey of her work from the late 1990's to the present..."

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The New York Times  What’s Wrong With This Picture?  SEPTEMBER 2006

fter Hurricane Katrina, Robert Polidori went to New Orleans, where he lived years ago, to shoot photographs of the devastation for The New Yorker. He stayed longer than first planned, then went back again and again, for weeks, taking hundreds of pictures with a large-format camera that produced wide, superbly detailed color photographs.

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ARTINFO  Robert Polidori  SEPTEMBER 2006

To commemorate the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, ARTINFO has brought back our AI Interview with photographer Robert Polidori, first published in Sept. 2006, on the eve of the opening of his exhibition "New Orleans after the Flood" at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Toronto Star  A Canadian witness to New Orleans’ demise  SEPTEMBER 2006

Make that two ex-Montrealers. One is Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the
eighth son of a French Canadian pioneer who founded New Orleans in 1718.
The other is Robert Polidori, the New Yorker staff photographer born in Montreal
in 1951, who rushed to the city a year ago this month after Hurricane Katrina
forced half a million people to flee their homes. Le Moyne made plans for a
great city. Polidori gives witness to its demise.

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Art News  Reviews: New York: Natvar Bhavsar Sundaram Tagore  September 2006

"...Bhavsar's paintings are not limited to their surface colors - which are indefinable, suffused as they are with additional tones such as violet, saffron, rose, vermillion, cinnamon, midnight blue, and emerald, tinged warm and cool. Thier surfaces can resemble smoke when the hues evanesce, or they can be more tangible, pebbled textures and raised patterns, edged in a flame motif..."

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Asian Art News  A Tectonic Language  September 2006

"...The salty blooms and ocher depths of many of [Joseph's] steel-relief paintings evoke not only the Mediterranean hub of Western culture but also its spokes, spanning the compass... "

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Hong Kong Tatler  Off the Wall  September 2006

"Tagore is an art historian, curator and founder of the Sundaram Tagore Gallery based in Chelsea, which is the hottest, most happening place for contemporary art in New York."

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Asian Art News  Sundaram Tagore Gallery at the Hong Kong Exhibition Center  August 2006

"...a group of four gloriously shimmering works [by Hiroshi Senju] from this acclaimed series."

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Japan Info  Masterpiece Comes to Philadelphia's Japanese House and Garden  Spring 2007

"Hiroshi Senju is renowned for his unique combination of modernism and ancient methods of Japanese painting."

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Art News Magazine India  Facing East: American Artists' Encounters with India  August 2006

"The California artist Lee Waisler came to know both the renowned Indian philosopher J. Krishnamuri and the indophile artist Beatrice Wood, a lover of Marcel Duchamp, who inspired the character of Rose in the mainstream American film Titanic"

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The New York Times  Upscale, Downpriced: More Than a Taste At Six of the Best  July 12, 2006

(Joseph's work appears in the publication image. His piece graces the dining room wall of Jean Georges, a New York restaurant that overlooks Columbus Circle.)

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Art News Magazine India  The Legacy of Anti-Tradition  July 2006

"...artists were fighting for the right to produce art that defied the label 'Indian', explains Sundaram Tagore in this overview of modernism in India."

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Architectural Digest  The Essence of Light  July 2006

(featuring the painting A Line in the Sand by Nathan Slate Joseph)

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ARTLIES 51  Michael Petry: The Treasure of Memory  June 2006

"Petry . . . constructs a space where viewers can look at his work like they look at history - from all sides - revisiting old reminiscences and creating new experiences."

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Hi Blitz  High Art in a Taxi Garage  June 2006

"Fabulous art in a taxi garage? Sundaram Tagore a descendant of the illustrious Tagore family, himself an art historian, collector and connoisseur moved from his big gallery in Soho to an even bigger space - a 100-year-old garage in Chelsea."

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The New York Sun  On the Town  May 11, 2006

"Looking back the Sundaram Tagore Gallery presents "Now and Then," a retrospective of the 76-year-old artist Susan Weil."

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Rave Sq.  The Big Picture  May/June 2006

"...The two things that stand out about Bhavsar's works are the colors and the sizes, both bold and magnificent. While critics noticed similarities between the size of his works and those of Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothco and Barnett Newman, none of these art greats were able to capture the color he was exposed to in his youth in India..."

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Asian Art News  East/West Dialogue  May/June 2006

"...Natvar Bhavsar is a color field painter who works in pure pigment. He is largely credited for bringing a spiritual element to the absrtact expressionism movement in America..."

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Art & Antiques  Mad over MADI  May 2006

"...When MADi started, it was revolutionary..."

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Rave Sq.  Garage Turned Gallery  May/June 2006

"After spending years in Soho, Sundaram Tagore Gallery has finally made the move to Chelsea, one of the art capitals of the world."

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Chicago Tribune  Merchandise Mart to buy Art Chicago  April 29th, 2006

"...Art Chicago found a new home this week at the Merchandise Mart and now may never leave."

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Indian Express  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Now Adds Color to Chelsea Art Scene  March 31, 2006

"Bhavsar works with dried granules of pigment in a very deliberate and precise approach, although it may appear random. What emerges are canvases that are deeply pictorial in nature. Some of his paintings are monumental--more than 30 feet in length--and lyrical, abstract attempts to reveal both the microcosmic and the macrocosmic universe."

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Robb Report  Contemporary's Softer Side  March 2006

Joseph's work appears in a publication image of a Los Angeles home designed by Richard Landry of Landry Design Group.

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Art+Auction  At the Fair  March 2006

"But the first show of Indian contemporary art in the fair's history, from newcomer Sundaram Tagore of New York, also reflects heightened interest in that field Tagore has meditative paintings on paper by Sohan Qadri.."

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Asian Art News  Sohan Qadri at Sundaram Tagore Gallery  March/April 2006

"Sohan Qadri's paintings are transcendental and physical experiences..."

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Asian Art News  Relocation Show  March/April 2006

"Sundaram Tagore Gallery has announced that they will relocate to a new space at 547 West 27th Street in Chelsea and inaugurate their new gallery with a show of Natvar Bhavsar to open on March 16, 2006."

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Toronto Star  Vivid Art that joins East and West  October 29th, 2005

"Natvar Bhavsar is a world-renowned painter from India whose huge colorful canvases hang in more than 1,000 private, corporate and museum collections including the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.."

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Shofuso  Mural Project  July 2005

"Hiroshi Senju, one of Japan's most revered and internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, will complete his work in December of 2006 on a set of 27 syohekiga murals to be donated to Shofuso."

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American Academy of Arts and Letters  Academy Award in Art  May 18, 2005

"[Murray] has reinvented an abstraction which is nature."

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L Magazine  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Lee Waisler: Perfect Circle  March 2-15, 2005

"Waisler . . . [is] influenced by Hindu-Buddhist precepts, specifically the notion of the interrelated duality of creation and destruction."

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AM New York  Art World Going in Circles  February 25th, 2005

"Lee Waisler is an American artist with International scope. He has exhibited in museums worldwide and his work is heavily influenced by Hindu and Buddhist culture and philosophy..."

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ARTnews  Judith Murray  January 2005

"Murray is exploring a difficult coloristic terrain . . . These painting are confined almost courageously to a narrow range of colors with the repeated admixture of white to vary them . . ."

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International Research Center for the Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design  Hiroshi Senju  2005

"Coming to the 21st century, we bade farewell to contemporary art of the 20th century . . . realizing that only art works which are recorded in history can lend us encouragement, vitality and healing."

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Resurgence 232  The Seeker  2005

"Qadri, talking about his process of painting, says: 'When I start on a canvas I first empty my mind of all images. They dissolve into a primordial space. Only emptiness should communicate with the emptiness of the canvas'... "

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KIPPO NEWS  Kansai in Focus: Japanese-style painter Senju seeking to foster students into worldwide artists  December 8, 2004

"Senju says . . . artists can be recognized as worldwide ones only when their works have been publicly recognized as those which have a clear-cut philosophy and vision toward world peace and environmental conservation."

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News India Times  Color-Poetic Reverberations in Bhavsar's Festive Gift to NYC  November 26, 2004

"...Bhavsar has completely demolished appearance and form and contour - nor is there any place for 'line' in the world of color-drunk Bhavsar"

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News India Times  Many Incarnations of Painter, Poet, Yogi, Qadri  September 17, 2004


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The Telegraph  Portrait of Tantrik as Artist  July 25, 2004

"When I contacted Sohan at his studio in Copenhagen, he explained why he had switched from painting on canvas to painting on paper: 'Paper is much more feminine. Canvas is much more of a struggle. I am against struggle. Good art doesn't come out of struggle. Good art comes out of surrender'..."

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The Brooklyn Rail  Artseen  February 2004

"What Bhavsar's paintings achieve is a remarkable intimacy that leads us into the present fusion of language, technology, and the transmission of form."

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Rediff.com  Interview with Natvar Bhavsar  January 15th, 2004

"[Natvar Bhavsar] became a witness to, and a participant in, the great cultural flowering of our time - in dance, music, and painting."

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Art in America  Susan Weil at Sundaram Tagore  January, 2004

"Susan Weil's 21-piece pictorial salute to James Joyce, accompanied by excerpts from his novels and related text, might well have fallen into illustration."

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Gallery Guide  Primary Sources  2004

"Stan Gregory's curvilinear bands of varying thickness laid on vivid minimal backgrounds are created in a painstaking, layered process. In this, he is heir to both the conventions of geometric abstraction and Islamic and Japanese calligraphic traditions."

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Art in America  Robert Polidori at Pace/MacGill  DECEMBER 2003

This image is among the large-format chromogenic prints mounted on Plexiglas that were part of Robert Polidori's recent exhibition, and among the many published in a new volume, Zones of Exclusion, Pripyat and Chernobyl (Gottingen, Germany, Steidl, 2003).

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Art in America  Mutability and Metaphor  December, 2003

"...Natvar Bhavsar creates large compositions in which a cosmic vision emerges from lush materiality."

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Art in America  Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore  October 2003

"Murray's lyrical pictures are fraught with references to an earlier, distinctly French method of building up the surface. This . . . goes a long way toward explaining their emotional charge."

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New York Observer  Every Day Is Bloomsday At Susan Weil Exhibit  September 22nd, 2003

"Weil's portrait of James Joyce teems with wit...the exhibition is a delight with invention and pictorial virtuosity."

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Asian Art News  Sohan Qadri at Tibet House  September/October 2003

"Made with ink and dye on handmade-looking paper, color is a key element in Qadri's work."

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The Indian Express  Creating Illusions  August 1, 2003

"In particular, Qadri's color choices--mercury reds, peacock blues, and even stark black and grays-- underscore his Indian roots, while his sense of form points to his philosophical inclinations."

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CITY  Action  May/June 2003

"Stan Gregory[s] . . . work has been associated with the likes of Kandinsky and Matisse . . . [He] evokes the style of Islamic calligraphic art"

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New York Times  Turning Data Into Textured Paintings  January 26, 2003

"Curated by Sundaram Tagore this exhibition at the Rye Art Center fulfills its promise to document the art of modern India."

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New York Times  Telling Secrets That Worked For Gambling Life in Films  January 2, 2003

"A flair for raising money and for feeding cast and crew." A book launch for Ismail Merchant at Sundaram Tagore Gallery

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Art in America  Nathan Slate Joseph at Sundaram Tagore  June 2002

"Nathan Slate Joseph's work uniquely combines the large-scale exuberance of Abstract Expressionism with the laissez-faire mellowness of found-object art."

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Art in America  Joan Vennum at Sundaram Tagore  February 2002

"Vennum works in patterns that seem familiar, natural and continuous..."

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The Harlem Patchwork Building  January 31, 2002

"Facade designed by Nathan Slate Joseph in collaboration with Caples and Jefferson Architects."

"Harlem New Modernism"
-The New York Times, January 31, 2002_-

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The Denver Post  Latin American or Jewish? Nevermind, it's Still Good Art  February 9, 2009

"The majority of works, such as the sublime abstractions of Mexican-born Ricardo Mazal, offer little that can, at least immediately, be identified as being Jewish."

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India New York  Book on Painter Natvar Bhavsar by Noted Historian Released in N.Y.  October 23, 1998

"A recognition of [Bhavsar's] place in the mainstream art world today was the release on Oct. 15 of a book on Bhavsar, written by a noted authority on American art, irving Sandler, and published by Craftsman House of Australia, at a reception at the home of noted art collectors Pat and Ben Heller, ...titled "Natvar Bhavsar: Painting and the Reality of Color," contain[ing] 42 plates of color that reproduce the complexities and nuances of the original, which ordinarily elude reproduction, with notable fidelity."

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India New York  2 shows in Europe and a Book from Down Under Feature the Art of Natvar Bhavsar  October 10, 1997

"[Bhavar's] work occupies a unique place in mainstream contemporary art. It is distinguished by what is described as its "materiality." It is not figurative. It doesn't tell a story, nor communicate any idea. It contains no drama; it doesn't prove any point, preaches no moral. It is just there, by itself, existing all alone."

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The Hindu  Fireworks in a Dark Sky  June 30, 1996

"He is a masterful draftsman and was trained in India in an academic tradition. But colour is his thing. Although he has done figurative work and also went through a cubist phase, there has been an increasing de-emphasis on drawing in his work and a corresponding emphasis on colour. If you have to classify him, his is an abstract expressionist but his work is unique. They always remind me of the state of mind just before you awaken from a dream."

-Howard Wooden-
Director of the Wichita Art Musuem in Texas

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Asian Art News  A Struggle for Modernism  January/February 1996

"Indian modern artists have fought to create their own brand of Modernism far removed from it's early European influences. Here in the second part of his two part article, Indian art historian and critic Sundaram Tagore looks at the struggle of these artists."

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Art Asia Pacific  The Story of a Jagged Line  Issue 19

"Maqbool Fida Husain is regarded as the modern celebrity artist of twentieth-century India."

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Asian Art News  Towards Identity  November/December 1995

"Modern India has produced numerous fine artists who are only now being recognized in the international art market. Here, in the first of a two-part series, Indian art historian and critic Sundaram Tagore looks at the roots of art and modernism in India."

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Art News  The Artist's Artists  November 1984

"The gradations of rust that result are enhanced by a variety of other hues, and the final product has the effect of a carefully composed painting."

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Blue Sands  Natural Man

"Nathan Slate Joseph is a collaborative artist who partners with nature. As he dabs, flings and brushes galvanized steel surfaces with earthy inorganic pigments and then treats them with acids to faciliatate their breakdown, he serves as the front man while weather toils away unnoticed in the back of the house. Making a studio of the great outdoors--or at least a potato field, the artist paints with wind, rain, and sunlight."

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Mid Day  Portrait of Tantrik as Artist

"Sundaram's current passion is the work of a man of mystery. He is the Copenhagen-based painter cum tantrik, Sohan Qadri, who will have a one-man exhibition at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery starting on September 5."

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Ragtime  An Exhibition of a Tantric Artist  Vol. 10, No. 1

"Artist, poet Tantric guru Sohan Qadri has been immersed in painting and mediation for more than 30 years."

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