Gayatri Rangachari ShahIt has been a good year for India’s art and design market. Bookended by the India Art Fair and the ...

India’s most famous modernists, from Tyeb Mehta to V S Gaitonde, established new best prices this year, while Hussain’s 'Gram Yatra' became the first Indian painting to sell in excess of USD 10 ...

The Indian Space Painters were not Indians. They were a short-lived group of white painters working in New York in the late 1940s. They were, however, influenced by Native American cultural heritage ...

The Kochi Biennale is evolving, better, I love it. There have been problems in the past but they it seems to have been ironed ...

Last month, India’s cultural season culminated with the largest and most international edition of the India Art Fair since its founding in 2008. Over 120 exhibitors, including 26 newcomers, ...

S. H. Raza, "Germination" (1989), acrylic on canvas (© and courtesy Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi; all images courtesy Thames & Hudson unless noted otherwise) Success! Your account was created and ...

Among the highlights is a folio from the Bhagavata Purana dating to around 1775 to 1780, attributed to the successors of the ...

Social media and ChatGPT are changing the way we use text. Artists are pulling text in different directions in their practice, too. Some examples from recent shows across Goa and New Delhi.

Andakulova Gallery, DIFC, has announced its upcoming exhibition, Abstract Reality, a solo showcase by distinguished Indian painter Silajit Ghosh (Dec. 5 – Jan. 10, 2026). It is presented in ...

I HAVE heard it said that modern Indian art is neither modern nor Indian. That, of course, is an exaggeration, and yet it causes one to pause momentarily and cast a backward glance over the centuries.

Just over a decade ago, the International Herald Tribune published an article with the triumphant headline, “India’s art market booming.” The boom, however, didn’t last, and the market deflated ...

In Sanskrit, the term marjara-nyaya refers to a method of devotion in which a devotee completely surrenders to the deity, much like a kitten surrenders to the mother's protective grasp (marjara is the ...