Sold for Rs 265 Crore: How a Sacred Nepali Bronze Ended Up at a Hong Kong Auction

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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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Patna’s Bihar Museum ranks 9th in the world, ahead of the Met and the Louvre

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The Bihar Museum in Patna has been ranked ninth among the world’s best museums in 2026, placing it above New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre in Paris. The ranking comes from Germany-based travel guide Worth a Journey, whose World’s 100 Best Museums 2026 list was reported on October 28. The Met sits

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Deepa Shyam Turns the Dot into a World in Circular Scatter — गर्रा (Garra)

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Deepa Shyam’s first solo exhibition, Circular Scatter — गर्रा (Garra), curated by Georgina Maddox, has opened at Kalamkaar Gallery, Bikaner House, New Delhi, on 29 October 2026 and remains on view until 3 November. The opening was graced by Ashok Vajpeyi as Guest of Honour. A debut with a lineage Shyam is the wife of

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Reculture: The Gamosa, Memory and Home in Santanu Borah’s Paintings

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In his upcoming solo exhibition in Goa, artist and writer Santanu Borah cuts up the Assamese Gamosa and remakes it in myriad ways. Reculture, Santanu Borah’s solo exhibition opening at Sadhana Dell’Arte in Goa on 6 November, asks us to look at the Assamese Gamosa closely. In this new body of work, the artist experiments

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In the Etched Trace of Time: Six Decades of Anupam Sud at NGMA New Delhi

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Anupam Sud’s most comprehensive retrospective, In the Etched Trace of Time: Six Decades of Anupam Sud, is now on view at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, from October 24 to November 24, 2026. Presented with Dhoomimal Gallery, the landmark exhibition traces the veteran artist’s journey across printmaking, painting, drawing and watercolour,

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5 Indian Architects Reviving Vernacular Architecture.

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In an era dominated by high-rise concrete structures, glass facades, and energy-intensive HVAC systems, modern architecture often clashes with regional climates and natural ecosystems.  Yet long before the concept of green building entered the contemporary lexicon, India’s vernacular architecture flourished through context-driven wisdom.  Across the subcontinent’s diverse geographic zones, indigenous construction relied on locally available

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The Afterglow of the Bengal School: Ashok Vajpeyi on Jogen Chowdhury

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From the conversation with Piyush Daiya With the passing of Jogen Chowdhury, Indian art has lost one of its most distinctive voices, an artist whose dense webs of cross-hatched ink gave Indian modern art some of its most unsettling and tender human figures. In this edited excerpt from his autobiography, a book still taking shape

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Jogen Chowdhury: Memoirs of an Indian Dream and Alchemy of Expression

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On This Day Jogen Chowdhury (born 16th February 1939 is an eminent Indian artist considered one of the most important and seminal figures in the history of postcolonial Indian Art. Jogen knows his painting bonded to Partition, the landscape, folk tales, and figurative and political injustice-motivated compositions. He was born and brought up in an

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