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Sahar Zaman is currently
working as an independent arts journalist, TV presenter and art curator.
She was a founding member of
CNN IBN (CNN India - one of the top national English News channels) and worked
there as a senior news anchor and arts correspondent. With about a decade of
work experience in the television news industry as an arts journalist, she has extensively
covered art in terms of the art market, art insurance issues, art trends, art
restoration, and also special issues like the fake art market. She is the only
arts journalist in India to
have done a sting operation (which includes the use of a spy camera) on the
fake art market in India,
where she was offered a fake MF Husain at the price of Rs.1 crore.
Ms
Zaman regularly writes for magazines (Art&Deal, Tehelka), online websites (artconcerns.com)
and newsletters such as her essay titled the 'The evolution of
art journalism in India' for the India Art Summit
newsletter in Aug 2009.
She was invited to Pakistan to
screen her shows on Indian art in Pakistani universities and art centres. She
was also interviewed by their national news channel Dawn News and TV1. In Sri Lanka, she
was invited for a special Indo-Sinhalese art camp during which she was
interviewed by their national networks like Young Asia TV, Daily Times and
Sunday Mirror. She has written extensively about her impressions on the Sri
Lankan the contemporary art scene since
the LTTE War.
In 2010 she traveled to Australia
following reports in the media about the alleged racist attacks on Indian students in that
country and has written extensively on Indian art periodicals about her
experiences there in a spirit of reconciliation.
As a news anchor, having been
in the thick of breaking news like the General Elections of India 2009, the
military offensive in Sri Lanka, Pakistan's war on terror, Copenhagen Summit on
Climate Change, the alleged racist attacks in Australia, etc., Ms Zaman has an
in-depth understanding of world issues to be able to connect them with art.
At present, she does an art show for Bloomberg UTV called Art Wise, writes art columns for Tehelka, Art & Deal. She curates art shows on news worthy issues.
WORK EXPEREINCE
- Worked
with CNN IBN, as senior news anchor and arts correspondent (Aug 2005 - Apr
2010)
- Worked
with DD News as anchor-reporter for an arts and culture show (2005)
- Worked
in Headlines Today as Assistant Producer-Reporter for Arts (2004)
- A
short freelancing stint at DD India and DD Sports as anchor and
script-writer.
- Worked
at Asian News International (ANI) as reporter, anchor and producer for
various cultural shows and news bulletins beamed to Washington
(Channel 56) and London
(Sony London) (2002 -2003)
- Scripted
and presented programs for All India Radio's General Overseas Service. She was a regular reporter for 'The Art Scene in India' covering art events in Delhi
(2001)
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| An Osian of Debt |
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| Neville Tuli on the difficulty of raising Rs 10 lakh in cash while Osian’s had Rs 1,000 crore in assets, and the bad press that he gets |
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| Clouds and Multiple Perspectives |
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| Jehangir Sabavala will be remembered for bringing Cubism to Indian art |
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| Palette Politic |
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| Artist Shuvaprasanna on why it’s not yet time to paint Mamata, the lies of Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee, and managing passenger amenities for the Railways |
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| 'My life is like my red Ferrari!' |
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| MF Husain embraced every odd turn in life with the same passion and pleasure that he had when driving his favourite sports car. He told me, "My life is like my red Ferrari!", the best possible epitaph for him. |
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| Tribute to artist MF Husain |
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| What struck me most about his personality was his zest for life. For someone who reached the zenith of his career decades ago, Husain never cared about resting on his laurels. |
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| Hans Ulrich Obrist on India's Rising Art Scene |
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| Sahar Zaman speaks to the world's best known curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist about the Indian art scene & international significance. The interview appeared as the top story at 'Artinfo.com'. |
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| Question of Reconciliation |
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| Australian and Indian artists, baffled by attacks on Indians down under, explore how the two countries treat each other and their minorities. Sahar Zaman writes for the news weekly, OPEN. |
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| An interview with Anish Kapoor on his debut show in India |
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| Getting Anish Kapoor's works to India has been a struggle because of the costs involved and the lack of display space. But it has finally happened after 10 years of being in the pipeline. Sahar Zaman speaks to the artist. |
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| Priceless Art? Turn Right at Noida |
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| Being India's biggest collector doesn't mean hoarding art selfishly. SAHAR ZAMAN gets a sneak peek of Kiran Nadar's new museum |
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| Restoration and Preservation under Arc Lamps |
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| I always talk a lot about how well the camera captures an art work but this week I want to pay art restorers my long-due respect. They have an 'eye' that even my camera fails to match up!! While shooting with Priya Khanna on ... |
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| The Moving Art of Pakistan |
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| This time My TV & My Art took me to Pakistan, our neighbour, which is a lot like us but seems exotic to many mainly because of inaccessibility or its 'difficult to get a visa' factor. It was for a recce on 'truck art' for a s... |
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| 'The Taj' in Delhi via France |
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| The Mumbai attacks have taken up every possible space around us and understandably so. Our TV space, cyber space, mind space, dinner-table space and SMS space. Every public person worth his or her salt is out with an opinion ... |
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| My TV, My Art |
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| The funniest part about my shoot with MF Husain was when he started talking about his 'young' days. That had us fervently looking for his pictures of youth so that we could match the visuals with his comments. Google didn't h... |
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| When Sonia Amma Came... |
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| I'm sure she needs her privacy. Can you imagine how the difficult it is for her to have some peace and quiet, hounded as she is like a rockstar? A silent walkabout in a gallery, which is what most of us do around art, can be ... |
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| Colours of an Election |
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| One usually doesn't use 'art' and 'elections' in the same breath. But hey, it's the 21st century. And innovation is in. So we made Anjolie Ela Menon our next PM, asked Raghu Rai to travel back in time to the Indira years and ... |
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| View From The Mountain Lion |
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| The newsroom, unfortunately, fills up your mind with just the immediate. As a bona fide victim of the newsroom the only image of Sri Lanka I had in my mind were television glimpses of its three-decade war and its recent drama... |
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| Soundbytes from Australia |
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| "I often visited India in my mind, and when I finally had a chance to go there, it reminded me of all my influences in life", veteran light artist Roger Foley Fogg
"India is the mother of the world!", prominent Pop artist ... |
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