The Union Cabinet has approved the development of the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum (YYBM) at New Delhi’s historic North and South Block Complex, with an estimated project cost of ₹3,230 crore. Once complete, the museum is expected to have the world’s largest display area and become a major national destination for art, heritage, education and […]
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Art Mumbai 2026 opens today, November 12, at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, bringing 94 Indian and international galleries, major private collections, sculpture, performances and public programming to Mumbai. The fourth edition of India’s leading modern and contemporary art fair runs until November 15, 2026. A bigger edition for India’s art market This year’s fair has expanded
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In 2026, the last working textile mill in Byculla closed. With it, Mumbai lost the final trace of the industry that once shaped the city. Ends in Architecture, a video work by architect and researcher Himil H. Ramani, was filmed inside this same facility. It is now projected onto the mill’s abandoned walls, next to
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Ashok Vajpeyi in conversation with Piyush Daiya Editor’s Note Poet and cultural cognoscenti Ashok Vajpeyi is turning 85 this 16th and is documenting his memoirs with writer Piyush Daiya. As part of the memory project, we are publishing his detailed impressions of four women artists. This is the second of the four-part series. Read the
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As an artist, we seldom interrogate our themes. Sometimes, we are eclipsed by our emotions which take over our canvas, engendering our lives and our backgrounds. However, some artists simply reflect the state of the ‘self.’ One of those artist is Arpita Singh. Arpita Singh artworks boast simple themes. To her, however, you interpret her
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In an industry that often celebrates the loud and the monumental, Nayan Shah, founder of the Mumbai-based studio Palindrome Spaces, prefers a different frequency. Since establishing the firm in 2018, Shah has been quietly refining a design language where light, proportion, and memory take center stage, recalibrating the rhythms of daily life without ever “shouting
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Google Arts & Culture has partnered with India’s Ministry of Culture to digitise and present the country’s cultural heritage to audiences in India and abroad. The agreement will make monuments, manuscripts, museum collections and traditional art forms more discoverable through digital platforms. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on 5 November 2026 at a
Spending just 60 minutes in a museum or art gallery each month may lower stress, reduce depression risk, ease loneliness and support healthier ageing, according to a new report by UK arts charity Art Fund, developed with University College London professor Daisy Fancourt. The report proposes a “Recommended Dose of Art” (RDA): at least one
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Contemporary artist C Douglas and sculptor NN Rimzon have been chosen for Keralam’s Raja Ravi Varma Awards for 2023 and 2024 respectively, the state government announced in Thiruvananthapuram. Tourism, Culture and Cinema Minister PC Vishnunath made the announcement at a press conference. The Raja Ravi Varma Award is Keralam’s highest honour in the visual arts,
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A 12th-century Newar Manjushri has become the most expensive Himalayan gilt-bronze ever sold at auction. The price celebrates Kathmandu’s master casters. It also reopens questions about how such objects left Nepal, and who has a say in where they go next. A record in Hong Kong On 30 October 2026, a gilt-copper figure of Manjushri,
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