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The Shape of a Show: India’s Leading Curators on Their Practice

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What does it mean to build meaning in space? Five of India’s most significant curators reflect on the philosophy, process, and persistent challenges that define curatorial work today. R. Siva Kumar One of India’s foremost art historians, R. Siva Kumar (born 1956) has been teaching art history at Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan since 1981, making […]

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Neha Jain Blends India’s Heritage with Modern Wall Magic at UDC Homes

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In India’s colorful design world, tradition mixes with new ideas. Neha Jain shines as a smart leader. She co-founded UDC Homes. This brand has changed home décor for over 25 years. Neha did not start in design. She studied money and business at a school in the UK. Then she switched paths. Now she runs

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New Show in Mumbai Features Artworks of Vishakha Apte

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Veteran Mumbai-based artist Vishakha Apte

Veteran Mumbai-based artist Vishakha Apte presents Mapped by Tide and Time, a solo exhibition spanning painting, printmaking, paper constructions, and ceramics, opening in Mumbai this April before travelling to New Delhi. About the Exhibition Mapped by Tide and Time, curated by Ina Puri, opens at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai from 14th to 20th April 2026, and

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Wild Grass Explores the Evolving Indian Village Through Art

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Wild Grass Explores the Evolving Indian Village Through Contemporary Art

Curated by Yash Vikram, Wild Grass at Eikowa Contemporary brings together five artists to examine how rural India is actively reshaping itself in the face of climate change, migration, and modernity. About the Exhibition Wild Grass has opened at Eikowa Contemporary on 20 March 2026, running through 18 April. The exhibition challenges two persistent myths about the Indian

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Waste Becomes Art: ‘Dhalan’ by Niroj Satpathy at Kochi Biennale

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Niroj Satpathy presents a thought-provoking installation from waste materials at the Kochi Biennale

In one of the most talked-about installations at the sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Delhi-based artist Niroj Satpathy transforms the overlooked detritus of urban life into a meditation on memory, labour, and the invisible rhythms of a city at night. Titled Dhalan, the installation at S.M.S. Hall in Mattancherry is constructed entirely from materials sourced at Delhi’s landfill

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Sneha Ostawal on Experiential Architecture and the Human Touch

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In the vibrant world of Indian architecture, few voices resonate as intuitively and empathetically as Sneha Ostawal’s. As Principal Architect and Founder of Source Architecture—a Bangalore-based studio celebrated for its context-led designs across architecture, interiors, and experiential environments—Sneha has spent over 15 years redefining how spaces can truly inhabit lives. A graduate of RV College

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Akanksha Patil’s Solo Show Set to Open in Delhi

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Mumbai-based artist Akanksha Patil

Opening on 27 March 2026, Akanksha Patil’s Narratives in Transit is a deeply political solo exhibition curated by veteran critic-curator Georgina Maddox, and hosted at Gallery Art Positive, Lado Sarai, New Delhi. ​ The Exhibition Narratives in Transit takes as its subject one of the most pressing yet under-examined crises of contemporary India — the forced displacement of rural and

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C.K. Rajan: Slow Fuse and the Subtle Art of Resistance

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RAJAN ONE, an exhibition of artist CK Rajan’s early works, is the first half of a two-part exhibition at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, providing a clear but subtle look into the artist’s practice. The exhibition, which features works created after 1990, highlights an artist who has consistently pushed against spectacle, developing a modestly scaled, conceptually

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Manjot Kaur: Interspecies Agency and the Rewriting of Myth

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Manjot Kaur

Artist Manjot Kaur’s paintings, the lush, liminal world interprets the Indian miniature tradition and seeks novel ways to present it, producing a new lexicon and visual delight. As we know, painting is the art of seeing, and it enlarges and broadens the viewer’s world when engaged with. This is achieved in Kaur’s painting through translating

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