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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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KYNKYNY Art Gallery in Bangalore is currently presenting the Terra Verde, a group show of new works by Bhaskar Rao Botcha, Ganapati Hegde, and Manish Chavda. Running from 27 March to 25 April 2026, the show is free to attend and open Tuesday through Saturday. Devoid of human figures, the paintings collectively make a case
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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, 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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French artist Thomas Henriot lights up New Delhi with The Weight of Light, his solo exhibition of massive ink drawings and shimmering gold thread tapestries at Art Centrix Space. Opening 11 April 2026, the show runs through 12 May and dives into his unique style: single, sweeping lines of Chinese ink on Japanese paper, created
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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, 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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Pat Steir, a painter who spent over six decades expanding the boundaries of abstraction, died on March 25, 2026, in New York City. She was 87. Her death was confirmed by her husband Joost Elffers and her niece Lily Sukoneck-Cohen. Born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in Newark, New Jersey in 1938, Steir trained at Pratt Institute
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The world’s most watched art event is facing its sharpest internal revolt yet. More than 70 artists and curators participating in the 61st Venice Biennale have issued an open letter. It demands that La Biennale di Venezia exclude Israel, Russia, and the United States from this year’s edition. This is the first time curators of
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Helen Legg, currently director of Tate Liverpool, has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London. She takes up the role in June 2026, assuming responsibility for the institution’s exhibitions, permanent collection, and public programme. The position sits at the heart of one of Britain’s most influential cultural organisations and
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