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Listening to the Space: A Review of ‘Drifting Through the Quiet Veins’ Show, Running Parallel to India Art Fair

Gallery Dotwalk’s move to a new, strategically located location in Defence Colony, New Delhi, represents a major institutional transformation; it symbolises a conscious broadening of the gallery’s connection with India’s art capital’s thriving art environment. By establishing itself within this historic cultural hub, Dotwalk aspires to foster a more intimate accessibility between current practice and […]

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A Rendezvous of every day Signifiers and Beyond: Looking through ‘Cop Shiva’s Viewfinder

The artistic questions posed in “Like Gold”, a collateral project of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, such as Cop Shiva’s Being Gandhi, are anything but static depictions; instead, they represent a rigorous re-negotiation of the Indian story. The artworks of “Cop Shiva,” a photographer-artist who works as a police officer during the day, navigate the bureaucracy and

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Quick Read: Rabari Community & Their Endangered Craft

For centuries, the detailed and colorful embroidery of the Kachhi Rabari community has been a key cultural practice in Kutch, Gujarat. Today, this traditional art form is well-known worldwide. It is deeply connected to the life, identity, and history of the nomadic Rabari people. The Rabaris mainly raise camels and are nomadic herders of sheep,

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Satish Gujral’s Century: Architecture as Living Memory at The Gujral House, an India Art Fair Parallel Show

The Gujral House in Lajpat Nagar, long a significant landmark in Delhi’s cultural landscape, opens its doors this weekend with Satish Gujral 100 | World of Architecture, an architectural retrospective that turns the late modernist’s own home into a lens on his built legacy. Curated by New Delhi–based curator and scenographer Reha Sodhi, the exhibition runs from

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Khoj Explores the Future of Humanity and Technology Through Landmark Exhibition and Symposium in New Delhi

Khoj International Artists’ Association has announced a major new exhibition and accompanying symposium interrogating the intersections of art, technology, and society. Titled Are You Human?, the two-site international exhibition will open simultaneously at Khoj Studios and DLF Avenue Mall, Saket, from January 30 to February 28, 2026, inviting audiences to rethink the rapidly evolving relationship between bodies,

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‘Tension of Belongings’ at Students’ Biennale explores identity, memory, and community through art

The Students’ Biennale exhibition Tension of Belongings delves into the layered idea of belonging within communities, presenting artworks that interrogate how identity evolves through memory, migration, and everyday life. Curated by Seethal C. P and Sudheesh Kottembram, the exhibition is on view at the BMS (Brights) Warehouse and features works by three emerging artists from Andhra Pradesh — Gorle

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Major U.S. and European Galleries Join National Strike Against ICE Crackdown

A wave of prominent art galleries across the United States and even in Europe will shut their doors on Friday, January 30, in a coordinated act of protest against the Trump administration’s expanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and the use of deadly force against demonstrators. The action, part of a nationwide general strike,

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GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK Open New Space Together in Delhi, Featuring Shows Running Parallel to India Art Fair

Marking a new chapter in their decade-long collaboration, GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK will inaugurate their second shared space in Defence Colony, New Delhi, this February. The two galleries, known for their experimental alliance that began in 2016, continue to advance a distinctive collegial model that bridges contemporary art and photography under one roof. To inaugurate the

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The Artist-Curator as Institutional Provocateur: Riyas Komu in Conversation

Riyas Komu occupies a rare and deliberately cultivated position in contemporary Indian art: neither fully artist nor curator, but insistently both. He is an intellectual and institutional force, constantly pushing his boundaries in reshaping how art is produced, encountered, and understood in India and the Indian Ocean world. Over nearly three decades, the Mumbai-based artist

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