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Art and War: How Artists Have Portrayed Conflict Across Time

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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 […]

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Christie’s Revives South Asian Art Auction in London

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Seven years after its last dedicated sale, Christie’s King Street hosts 93 lots from a Bengal-focused private collection, offering some of the rarest works to appear at auction in decades. Christie’s is returning to London for its first dedicated South Asian art auction since 2019. The sale, titled Sublime Shadows: South Asian Art From a Distinguished

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Endless Stairs Opens at Bikaner House New Delhi

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Endless Stairs, a solo exhibition by Sri Lankan artist Kingsley Gunatilake, at Bikaner House,

Sri Lankan artist Kingsley Gunatilake brings five decades of practice to the capital, confronting library burnings and civil war through scorched books and abstract paintings. Blueprint12 opens Endless Stairs, a solo exhibition by Sri Lankan artist Kingsley Gunatilake, at Bikaner House, CCA Ground Floor, New Delhi, from 4 to 8 April 2026. The show draws together

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Krishen Khanna’s 5 Paintings Featuring Christian Religious Symbolism

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Krishen Khanna, one of India’s most celebrated modernists. This article delves into five significant works where Christian iconography becomes a lens to reflect on suffering, compassion, and search for spiritual meaning in the fractured world. 1) The Last Supper 2) Betrayal 3) Meeting at Emmaus 4) Peita 5) Thou Sayest So Featuring Image Courtesy: Saffron

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Hastaantar: In the Language of Hands, Reimagining Cultural Continuity

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HASTAANTAR: Dawn of Transmission, a one-day exhibition organised by Jiyo Live It, unfolded as a thoughtful and immersive exploration of how knowledge lives, moves, and endures through the human hand. More than a conventional showcase, the event positioned itself as a living archive—one that foregrounded memory, labour, and embodied knowledge as central to India’s cultural

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Nayanaa Kanodia Presents Staged Realities in New Delhi

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Nayanaa Kanodia, a pioneer of naïve art in India, returns to New Delhi after nearly two decades with her solo exhibition Staged Realities. This captivating show at CCA, Bikaner House, curated by Archana Khare-Ghose and presented by Dhoomimal Gallery, blends recent and earlier works.  Kanodia captures Mumbai’s bustling streets, elite private worlds, class divides, gender

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