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Ratan Parimoo retrospective opens at Bikaner House, New Delhi

Exhibitions /
Ratan Parimoo Scarlet Pearls, 1959 Oil and pebbles on board 23 x 40 inches

Gallerie Splash will present Grammar of Seeing, a major retrospective of Ratan Parimoo’s abstract phase, curated by Satyajit Dave, at Bikaner House’s Centre for Contemporary Art in New Delhi from June 12 to June 16, 2026. The show brings together paintings, prints, drawings, collages, works on paper, and archival material to trace Parimoo’s artistic evolution and […]

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Striking Histories: Indian Matchbox Labels and the Making of a Visual Culture

Design /

Before matchboxes became museum items or collector’s memorabilia, they occupied a far more intimate role in everyday lives: wedged between cigarette boxes, resting beside kitchen burners, tucked away in shirt pockets, and passed from hand to hand in the quiet rhythm of mundane life. A major part of India’s visual art culture lies outside art

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Dr Alka Pande: Mapping India’s Visual and Cultural Imagination

Profile /

Dr Alka Pande is one of India’s most renowned art historians, and curators, with a practice that bridges scholarship, exhibition-making and public pedagogy. For over three decades, she has worked on Indian aesthetics, visual culture and gender, shaping how diverse audiences encounter the subcontinent’s artistic and cultural histories. Pande holds postgraduate degrees in History and

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A Journey Through Layers of Truth: Norton Maza Represents Chile at the Venice Biennale

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /
Norton Maza

At the ongoing Venice Biennale, the artworks of Chilean artist Norton Maza are attracting the attention of art lovers, just as those of other artists from the Global South, and are making the concept of ‘art’ and politics the centre of discussion. Considering the artist’s family history, especially that his father was arrested after the

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Serendipity Arts Celebrates 175 Years of the Great Exhibition in London

Exhibitions /

Serendipity Arts launches a London programme in June 2026 with immersive performance and a giant puppet parade, pairing South Asian sound and public art in the Science Museum and on Exhibition Road. About the London programme Serendipity Arts will present two public projects in London in June 2026 in partnership with the Science Museum and

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“Love Matters”: Kushal Ray on Intimacy, Observation, and the Lifelong Marathon of Photography

Interview /

Kushal Ray’s journey into photography is as unconventional as it is compelling. Born in Kolkata in 1960, he began his career as a sports journalist at The Telegraph before turning to photography full-time in the early 1990s. Self-taught yet deeply informed by observation and empathy, he quickly developed a visual vocabulary that diverged from prevailing

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Shared Epic Worlds at Sunder Nursery Explores Centuries of Indo-Iranian Exchange

Exhibitions /
Shared Epic Worlds

“Shared Epic Worlds: The Shahnameh, the Mahabharata, and the Indo-Persian Imagination,” currently on view at Sunder Nursery, is not simply an exhibition about two great epics. It is about movement—of stories, manuscripts, images, languages, and ideas across centuries of interaction between Iran and India. Against the backdrop of current geopolitical tensions, the Iran Culture House

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Prairie Ark: Büro Ziyu Zhuang lands a saucer-like gallery on Mongolia

Architecture /
Prairie Ark: Büro Ziyu Zhuang lands a saucer-like gallery on Inner Mongolia

Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed Prairie Ark, a public gallery on the shores of Lake Laoli in the Ulanchabu Steppes of Inner Mongolia, about 160 kilometres west of Beijing. The building reads like a flying saucer that has come to rest on the grasslands, lower and more horizontal than a conventional museum. Studio founder Ziyu

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