Spending just 60 minutes in a museum or art gallery each month may lower stress, reduce depression risk, ease loneliness and support healthier ageing, according to a new report by UK arts charity Art Fund, developed with University College London professor Daisy Fancourt. The report proposes a “Recommended Dose of Art” (RDA): at least one […]
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Contemporary artist C Douglas and sculptor NN Rimzon have been chosen for Keralam’s Raja Ravi Varma Awards for 2023 and 2024 respectively, the state government announced in Thiruvananthapuram. Tourism, Culture and Cinema Minister PC Vishnunath made the announcement at a press conference. The Raja Ravi Varma Award is Keralam’s highest honour in the visual arts,
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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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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’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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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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On This Day Bob Ross would have turned 84 today. Born in Daytona Beach, Florida, on 29 October 1942, the soft-voiced painter with the permed hair made 403 episodes of The Joy of Painting between 1983 and 1994. Three decades after his death in 1995, he is arguably more famous than ever. The man behind
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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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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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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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