Friday, May 22, 2009
Air India offers direct onward connection to Ahmedabad
Air India's summer schedule has a pleasant surprise for passengers traveling to Ahmedabad. The airline is offering a nonstop onward connection from Frankfurt to Ahmedabad.
Jude Crasto, Air India Midwest manager, said the daily nonstop operation between Frankfurt and Ahmedabad would be available to passengers from all major U.S.cities. For Chicago and New Jersey passengers, the new operation will be very convenient as it will connect to Ahmedabad passengers within shortest transit time at Frankfurt, he said.
The new operation begins June 1, with a Boeing 747-400 flight.
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Jude Crasto, Air India Midwest manager, said the daily nonstop operation between Frankfurt and Ahmedabad would be available to passengers from all major U.S.cities. For Chicago and New Jersey passengers, the new operation will be very convenient as it will connect to Ahmedabad passengers within shortest transit time at Frankfurt, he said.
The new operation begins June 1, with a Boeing 747-400 flight.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Virginia Museum of Fine Art acquires pioneering work by American painter and Pala
The world renowned Indian and India-related art collection at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (VMFA) has recently been enriched with two acquisitions, VMFA announced on June 4 in a press release.One is an oil on canvas - done in academic style, but with lots of light in it, with colors that might have been borrowed from an Impressionist palette - by the first American artist known to have visited India, Edwin Lord Weeks.
The lustrous painting, ‘The Hour of Prayer at Moti Musjid (The Pearl Mosque), Agra,' dates from about 1888-89 and is nearly 10 feet wide by almost 7 feet tall. Weeks was awarded a Gold Medal at the 1889 Paris Salon for the work.Although not as widely known in India as the aquatints by Thomas and William Daniell, Weeks imbued his scenes with more magic and light, while not departing from almost photographic verisimilitude, than any other western artists before or after him. His ‘The Bazaar at Oudeypore' or ‘The Rajah Setting Out on a Hunt' are gorgeous - and yet as naturalistic as a National Geographic photo.
Weeks (1849-1903) was born in Boston and trained in Paris and was an inveterate traveler, according to Dr. Sylvia Yount, who is VMFA's Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art and head of the American department.
He was inspired by exotic historical subjects and the painterly techniques of the French academicians. He attracted critical and popular attention on both sides of the Atlantic for his contemporary North African and Middle Eastern scenes before visiting India for the first time in 1882.
VMFA's new painting dates from the second of three trips Weeks made to India and has rarely been seen since. When it was shown in Paris, an American critic deemed it "almost a perfect picture, complete in religious sentiment and poetical inspiration."
The painting comes to VMFA in its original frame, which was made by American painter designer Lockwood de Forest, a business partner of Louis Comfort Tiffany who, before the era of outsourcing and globalization -- maintained a workshop in Ahmedabad, India.
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Labels: acquires, Agra, Ahmedabad, American painter, American painter designer Lockwood de Forest, india, Moti Musjid, Pala, pioneering work, VMFA
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