Staying with the Feeling: A Conversation with Artist Shagun Agarwal

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Shagun Agarwal is a multidisciplinary artist and psychologist, who treats making as a way of staying with feelings long enough for them to take shape. Working across drawing, installation, textiles, sculpture, and text, Agarwal draws on her background in clinical psychology and community mental health to explore how memory, gender, queerness, and vulnerability shape who […]

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74 Protest Photos Pulled From Raihan Vadra’s Bikaner House Exhibition; Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Backs Son

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Raihan Vadra’s solo exhibition “No Idea Is Final” at Delhi’s Bikaner House

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

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After the Last Mill: Himil H. Ramani Discusses Ends in Architecture

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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 Shifting Ground Opens in London

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Tom Vattakuzhy Wind Chime, 2026 Oil on Canvas 6 x 9 ft Image Courtesy of AstaGuru UK and Asian Art in London

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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Sagarika Sundaram’s Reservoir in Leeds: Felt Becomes Monumental Sculpture

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Sagarika Sundaram, 'Blue Mountain' 2026, dyed wool, steel. Courtesy the artist, Henry Moore Institute and Alison Jacques, London. Photo: Minyung Im.

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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Finland’s Oodi: A Library Designed for Community

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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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Indian Modernism at Frieze Masters 2026

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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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KNMA Dance Festival 2026 Brings 14 Performances on Love to Sunder Nursery, Delhi

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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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Vasily Vereshchagin and His Paintings of India

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The State Procession of the Prince of Wales into Jaipur by Vasily Vereshchagin, Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata

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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