Photographer and visual artist Raihan Vadra has alleged that the management of Delhi’s Bikaner House forced him to take down most of the artworks in his solo exhibition, No Idea Is Final, hours before its preview on Wednesday. The removed photographs documented the recent youth protests in Delhi. Vadra, son of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi […]
In 2026, the last working textile mill in Byculla closed. With it, Mumbai lost the final trace of the industry that once shaped the city. Ends in Architecture, a video work by architect and researcher Himil H. Ramani, was filmed inside this same facility. It is now projected onto the mill’s abandoned walls, next to
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Tom Vattakuzhy’s first solo exhibition in London, Shifting Ground, brings a new body of paintings to AstaGuru London Gallery from 14 October to 10 November 2026, presented by the Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA) and AstaGuru as part of Asian Art in London 2026. The exhibition marks an important international moment for contemporary Indian
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This autumn, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary sculpture has taken over the galleries at Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Sagarika Sundaram: Reservoir runs from 30 September 2026 to 10 January 2027 and marks the New York–based Indian artist’s first museum exhibition and her first institutional solo show in Europe. Built from hand-dyed
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On this day On 17 October, the Indian art world remembers Lalita Lajmi (also spelled Lalitha Lajmi). She was a painter whosedetermination outlasted decades of being overlooked. Born on 17 October 1932 in Calcutta, she passed away on 13 February 2023 at the age of 90. Over a career of more than sixty years, she
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Helsinki Central Library Oodi, situated in front of the Finnish Parliament is a public “living room” whose architecture is choreographed around democracy, everyday life and the changing idea of what a library should be. ALA Architects have designed it in service of access, openness and shared civic life. Site, symbol and first impression Oodi occupies
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At Frieze Masters 2026, Indian Modernism offers a complex, transnational history in its own right. The fair—running at The Regent’s Park, London, from 14–18 October foregrounds overlooked twentieth-century practices, including a rare international presentation of work by modern India’s abstractionist Ganesh Haloi. Spanning works from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, the presentation traces a pivotal
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The KNMA Dance Festival 2026, curated by dancer and choreographer Leela Samson, opens at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi, on October 15 and runs until October 18. Titled around the many expressions of love in Indian literature, music and oral traditions, the four-day festival presents 14 performances, including six special commissions, across classical, folk, ritual and
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On this day, Russian painter, war artist, and traveller Vasily Vereshchagin was born. Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (14/26 October 1842 – 13 April 1904) was a Russian painter, war artist and traveller, and one of the first Russian artists to win wide fame abroad. He is best remembered for unflinching war scenes such as The Apotheosis
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Losing one of the Pillars of Indian Contemporary Art, the community tries not to mourn but celebrate Nagy I was a cub reporter when I first met Peter Nagy in Mumbai. It was as an artist that I met him rather than the curator behind so many significant exhibitions, and the Founder of Nature Morte,
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