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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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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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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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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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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Friday Magazine Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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Art in America Subhankar Banerjee at Sundaram Tagore June/July 2008

"Subhankar Banerjee's exhibition of large-scale color photographs documents the Alaskan arctic as it has never been seen or imagined before."

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Art in America Global Warnings June/July 2008

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Rave Sq. Erasing Borders Nov-Dec 2004

"[Sundaram Tagore] A gallery owner and curator explains diaspora culture from an artistic perspective - and highlights the responsibilities of the émigré Indian artist today"

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Asian Contemporary Art Week Sundaram Tagore Gallery May 25, 2006

"The goal . . . is to create a dialogue among cultures and to find points of commonality and elements that inspire new ways of thinking and creating...Curated by Sundaram Tagore"

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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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News India Times/Desi Talk Group Exhibition Reveals Confluence of East and West Friday, June 30, 2006

"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."

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Namaskaar Indian Art blooms in New York July 2006

"...The gallery, always interested in cross-cultural connections, has shown a diverse group of artists including Natvar Bhavsar, Sohan Qadri, Judith Murray, Nathan Slate Joseph, Anil Revri and Susan Weil..."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Asian Art News Inner Journey July/August 2007

"...Senju expresses contemporary modernity through ancient painting techniques unique to Japan."

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The Indian Express Art of Adding Illusion to Art July 13th, 2007

"Three Indian artists are among those featured in Inner Journey, the latest offering from the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York."

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Forbes Asia Artsourcing January 8th, 2007

"...works by artists such as M.F. Husain and Raza are commanding a million dollars and higher."

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

http://www.museiciviciveneziani.it/frame.asp?pid=1710&musid=196&sezione=mostre

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wen Wei Po

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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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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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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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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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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 & Antiques Mad over MADI May 2006

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

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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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News India Times/Desi Talk Group Exhibition Reveals Confluence of East and West Friday, June 30, 2006

"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."

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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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Friday Magazine Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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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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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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Modern Home

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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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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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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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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Rave Sq. Erasing Borders Nov-Dec 2004

"[Sundaram Tagore] A gallery owner and curator explains diaspora culture from an artistic perspective - and highlights the responsibilities of the émigré Indian artist today"

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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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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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Asian Contemporary Art Week Sundaram Tagore Gallery May 25, 2006

"The goal . . . is to create a dialogue among cultures and to find points of commonality and elements that inspire new ways of thinking and creating...Curated by Sundaram Tagore"

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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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Namaskaar Indian Art blooms in New York July 2006

"...The gallery, always interested in cross-cultural connections, has shown a diverse group of artists including Natvar Bhavsar, Sohan Qadri, Judith Murray, Nathan Slate Joseph, Anil Revri and Susan Weil..."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wen Wei Po

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Friday Magazine Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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

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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Asian Contemporary Art Week Sundaram Tagore Gallery May 25, 2006

"The goal . . . is to create a dialogue among cultures and to find points of commonality and elements that inspire new ways of thinking and creating...Curated by Sundaram Tagore"

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Namaskaar Indian Art blooms in New York July 2006

"...The gallery, always interested in cross-cultural connections, has shown a diverse group of artists including Natvar Bhavsar, Sohan Qadri, Judith Murray, Nathan Slate Joseph, Anil Revri and Susan Weil..."

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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 in America Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore Gallery March 2007

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

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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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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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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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Wen Wei Po

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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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Hong Kong Economic Journal June 15, 2008

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Rave Sq. Erasing Borders Nov-Dec 2004

"[Sundaram Tagore] A gallery owner and curator explains diaspora culture from an artistic perspective - and highlights the responsibilities of the émigré Indian artist today"

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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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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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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 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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Asian Contemporary Art Week Sundaram Tagore Gallery May 25, 2006

"The goal . . . is to create a dialogue among cultures and to find points of commonality and elements that inspire new ways of thinking and creating...Curated by Sundaram Tagore"

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News India Times/Desi Talk Group Exhibition Reveals Confluence of East and West Friday, June 30, 2006

"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."

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Namaskaar Indian Art blooms in New York July 2006

"...The gallery, always interested in cross-cultural connections, has shown a diverse group of artists including Natvar Bhavsar, Sohan Qadri, Judith Murray, Nathan Slate Joseph, Anil Revri and Susan Weil..."

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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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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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Orientations International Fairs May, 2007

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

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Asian Art News Inner Journey July/August 2007

"...Senju expresses contemporary modernity through ancient painting techniques unique to Japan."

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The Indian Express Art of Adding Illusion to Art July 13th, 2007

"Three Indian artists are among those featured in Inner Journey, the latest offering from the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York."

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Wen Wei Po

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Forbes Asia Artsourcing January 8th, 2007

"...works by artists such as M.F. Husain and Raza are commanding a million dollars and higher."

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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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Friday Magazine Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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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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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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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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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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C for Culture June 2008

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Modern Home

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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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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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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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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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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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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Asian Art News Painter of All Times November/December 2004

"Revri's work addresses one of the most basic issues of the human experience: the individual's struggle to acknowledge and become closer to an entity greater than oneself."

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Rave Sq. Erasing Borders Nov-Dec 2004

"[Sundaram Tagore] A gallery owner and curator explains diaspora culture from an artistic perspective - and highlights the responsibilities of the émigré Indian artist today"

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Art in America Anil Revri at the Corcoran January 2005

"Revri's control of light and perspective is underscored in the larger geometric abstract drawings and paintings..."

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Asian Art News Search for a Path November/December, 2005

"Revri has had numerous solo and group shows in India and the United States. His work ha been featured in collections worldwide including the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress."

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Asian Contemporary Art Week Sundaram Tagore Gallery May 25, 2006

"The goal . . . is to create a dialogue among cultures and to find points of commonality and elements that inspire new ways of thinking and creating...Curated by Sundaram Tagore"

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News India Times/Desi Talk Group Exhibition Reveals Confluence of East and West Friday, June 30, 2006

"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."

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Namaskaar Indian Art blooms in New York July 2006

"...The gallery, always interested in cross-cultural connections, has shown a diverse group of artists including Natvar Bhavsar, Sohan Qadri, Judith Murray, Nathan Slate Joseph, Anil Revri and Susan Weil..."

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Asian Art News Inner Journey July/August 2007

"...Senju expresses contemporary modernity through ancient painting techniques unique to Japan."

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The Indian Express Art of Adding Illusion to Art July 13th, 2007

"Three Indian artists are among those featured in Inner Journey, the latest offering from the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York."

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Forbes Asia Artsourcing January 8th, 2007

"...works by artists such as M.F. Husain and Raza are commanding a million dollars and higher."

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Friday Magazine Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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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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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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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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Modern Home

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Asian Art News Inner Journey July/August 2007

"...Senju expresses contemporary modernity through ancient painting techniques unique to Japan."

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The Indian Express Art of Adding Illusion to Art July 13th, 2007

"Three Indian artists are among those featured in Inner Journey, the latest offering from the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York."

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Wen Wei Po

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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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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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Friday Magazine Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Art in America Joan Vennum at Sundaram Tagore February 2002

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

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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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Friday Magazine Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Friday Magazine Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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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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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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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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Hong Kong Economic Journal June 15, 2008

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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 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 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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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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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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Namaskaar Indian Art blooms in New York July 2006

"...The gallery, always interested in cross-cultural connections, has shown a diverse group of artists including Natvar Bhavsar, Sohan Qadri, Judith Murray, Nathan Slate Joseph, Anil Revri and Susan Weil..."

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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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Wen Wei Po

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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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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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Modern Home

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 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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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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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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