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Doug Aitken’s UNDER THE SUN: First India Exhibition at NMACC Mumbai

Doug Aitken’s first exhibition in India, titled UNDER THE SUN, opens on December 6, 2025, at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) in Mumbai and runs through February 22, 2026.​ Spanning three floors of the NMACC Art House, the show explores narratives of past, present, and future, each on a dedicated level, guiding visitors through […]

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11 Million Dots: London’s Voices Encoded in Largest Public Artwork

A new participatory public artwork titled 11 Million Dots, created by artist Rafael El Baz, has been unveiled on the six-story façade of a data center near Park Royal in Ealing, west London, covering 2,700 square meters (29,000 square feet) and marking the city’s largest such installation.​ El Baz collected ambient sounds from the area along

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Sheikha Moza Unveils Lawh Wa Qalam: World’s First M.F. Husain Museum in Doha

Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation, inaugurated the Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum on November 27, 2025, at Education City in Doha, marking the opening of the world’s first institution dedicated to the life and work of Indian modernist master Maqbool Fida Husain. The 32,300-square-foot facility, realized from a 2008

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Alma Allen, Trump’s Unexpected Choice for the U.S. Pavilion at Venice

Alma Allen, a largely self-taught sculptor born in Utah and now based in Mexico, has been confirmed as the United States’ official representative for the 61st Venice Biennale, in a move that caps weeks of speculation and controversy around the Trump administration’s cultural agenda. The artist will present the exhibition “Alma Allen: Call Me the

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From Russia with Love: Artist Nikas Safronov’s First Exhibition in India

Replete with life-sized sculpted elephants, coloured red, white and black, projections of light, sound and video, printed carpets, that evoke texture and artificial flowers that give out fragrant smells, the Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery will get a complete makeover for the upcoming exhibition Dream Vision: Nikas Safronov’s first exhibition in India conveys the sensibility of

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The Curator Who Rescued Europe’s Stolen Art From the Nazis

In occupied Paris, during WW2, amid the systematic plunder of Jewish collections and French museums, a little-known museum curator, Rose Valland, became one of the most effective resisters of Nazi cultural theft. Working almost alone in the Musée du Jeu de Paume, she persistently saved tens of thousands of artworks from disappearing into the Reich.

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Gul’s Charbagh: Ritu and Surya Singh of Wolf on Reimagining Tradition Through Scrap and Poetry

With Gul, artists Ritu and Surya Singh, the creative force behind the Jaipur-based studio Wolf, invite us into a reimagined charbagh (four-part garden), guided by the spectral voice of the 18th-century poet Mir Taqi Mir. This immersive exhibition transforms burnt copper wire, discarded X-rays, and scrap metal into a sanctuary that is as much a political statement as

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Royal Enfield Announces Programming for Second ‘Journeying Across The Himalayas’ Festival

Royal Enfield Social Mission has revealed the full lineup for the second edition of Journeying Across The Himalayas, a week-long multidisciplinary festival focused on the cultural and natural heritage of the Himalayan region. Scheduled from 4 to 10 December 2025 at Travancore Palace in New Delhi, the event adopts the theme “Ours to Tell,” emphasizing

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A. Ramachandran’s ‘Sandhya Rāga’ Opens in New Delhi

Vadehra Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Shridharani Art Gallery at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, presents Sandhya Rāga, a posthumous exhibition of the late artist A. Ramachandran’s final works. The exhibition runs at Shridharani Art Gallery from 19 to 29 November 2025, and continues at Vadehra Art Gallery, Defence Colony, from 5 December 2025 to

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‘Footprints on the Moon’: Photography Show at BIC Celebrates India’s Lunar Leap

A unique three-day photography exhibition titled “Footprints on the Moon,” spotlighting India’s historic Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, is being held at the Bangalore International Centre (BIC) from November 28 to 30, 2025. The show features 13 evocative backlit works by Chennai-based photographer Dheeraj Khandelwal, whose images capture the drama and emotion of the Chandrayaan-3 launch as

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