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Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) has named Han Ishu and yang02 as winners of the sixth Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA) 2026–2028. The award ceremony and symposium took place on 4 March 2026 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. About the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and TOKAS established the TCAA […]
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The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut has put a remarkable 37-foot-long Indian scroll on public view for the first time. The exhibition Painters, Ports and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850 runs until 21 June. A Panorama of Lucknow in Scroll Artists created the scroll between 1821 and 1826. It
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Art has long stood at the uneasy intersection of beauty and violence. It offers a space where the unspeakable realities of war can be confronted, transformed, and remembered. In the works of Sadegh Adham, Mohsen Keiany, and Sara Shamsavari, war is not merely depicted; it is portrayed. It is reimagined through myth, material, memory, and
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Gallery Pristine Contemporary presents Yeh Kab Ki Baat Hai?, a solo exhibition by Irum Rahat, in New Delhi. This exciting solo show features 16 paintings on memory, interiors, and shifting identities. It opens at Gallery Pristine Contemporary on 23rd April 2026. Rahat’s art shows how memory flows and changes, not stays fixed. Rooms, people, and actions repeat but
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Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is opening a dedicated phone line for confessions. He is also launching new editions of his most controversial sculpture — a depiction of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Dial In and Confess Cattelan is inviting the public to call a phone line and confess their sins directly. The
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Melvin Edwards (1937–2026), who died last week at 88, was a Houston-born sculptor and activist who was raised during segregation and portrayed Afro-American lives in abstract terms. He first studied painting at the University of Southern California before turning to welding in 1959. Building on this distinctive artistic foundation, Edwards crafted intricate, abstract assemblages from
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Exhibit 320, New Delhi, presents I insist, you reckon, a group exhibition curated by Vaidehi Gohil. The show opens on Friday, 17 April, and runs through Saturday, 30 May 2026. It brings together seven artists working across digital media, textile, paper burn, sculpture, and collage. About the Exhibition The exhibition takes insistence as its central idea.
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Maryam Saeedpoor is a Tehran-based Iranian photographer whose theatrically staged portrait work has made her one of the most significant visual voices documenting the lives, resistance, and interior worlds of Iranian women. Born in Tehran in 1984, she operates at the intersection of art photography, photojournalism, and quiet defiance, creating images that are simultaneously intimate
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War has always been a powerful and troubling part of human history. It brings destruction, fear, and uncertainty, but it also shapes nations, cultures, and identities. Alongside soldiers and leaders, artists have played an important role in responding to war. Through paintings, drawings, prints, and later photography and installations, artists have tried to capture the
Art and War: How Artists Have Portrayed Conflict Across Time Read More »
Continuum, an immersive art exhibition curated by Gauri Minocha in Gurgaon, blends nearly 100 South Asian artworks into home-like spaces for a personal touch from 12 April to 1 May 2026. At The Art Hub Gallery in DLF Phase 1, rooms, hallways, terraces, and lawns host masters like Jamini Roy and Vivan Sundaram alongside fresh
When Art Refuses to Stay on Walls: Continuum Takes Over Gurgaon Read More »