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Mechaniya Reimagines Textile Futures in Six Continuum’s Debut Show

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Mumbai’s newest experimental art platform, Six Continuum, will open its inaugural exhibition There Are No Punch Cards on April 18, 2026, featuring new jacquard works by Silvassa-based studio Mechaniya, co-founded by Tanvi Ranjan and Namrata Kothari. Running until May 18 at Eon One, Prabhadevi, the exhibition foregrounds the studio’s ongoing engagement with industrial textile processes, digital technologies, […]

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Exhibition “Houses I Almost Lived In” Explores Memory In Delhi

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Houses I Almost Lived In exhibition in New Delhi brings together five artists to examine memory, architecture, and lived experience through diverse materials and forms. Presented at Latitude 28, the exhibition reflects on spaces once inhabited, nearly entered, or only imagined, and how they continue to shape our inner worlds. It shifts focus from physical

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Raja Boro’s Echoes of the Earth: Printed Landscapes of Memory and Belonging

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Raja Boro

The solo exhibition of young artist Raja Boro, Echoes of the Earth: A Woodcut Diary, who came from a village in Assam to Shantiniketan in Bengal and later to Baroda University, is notable both for reflecting the paths he travelled and for echoing the places he visited. Fundamentally, the exhibition is both a material meditation

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Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser: Holding Contradictions at Venice 2026

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As India prepares its presentation for the Venice Biennale 2026, the selection of artist duo Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser deserves special attention for many reasons. Especially as they have worked together and individually, and as those who explore two kinds of ecological sensibilities—working collaboratively as Hylozoic/Desires—this signals a compelling shift toward interdisciplinary,

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Fragments of Home: Vera Tamari’s Art of Resilience at Venice Biennale 2026

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Vera Tamari

Amid ongoing wars in many places, the Venice Biennale, currently readying for the curtain raiser, is rife with controversy. In the context of Israeli artists participating in the Biennale amid continuing violence in Palestine, and Russian artists participating against the backdrop of the Ukraine war, this article offers a reflective look at Palestinian artist Vera

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Why Marina Abramović Keeps Dying for Love at Cisternerne

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Marina Abramović brings opera’s deaths underground in Copenhagen

Cisternerne in Copenhagen now hosts the large-scale cinematic opera installation Marina Abramović: Seven Deaths, installed in the city’s former underground water reservoirs in Søndermarken. The exhibition runs from 14 March to 30 November 2026 and turns the dark, damp cisterns into a sequence of chambers devoted to seven iconic operatic deaths. In each film, Abramović dies

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From Unfinished Masterpieces to Celebrating Creativity: World Art Day and Leonardo Da Vinci’s Contribution to the Arts

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Smriti Malhotra Did you know that there was a specific day earmarked to celebrate the arts? Did you know that this day coincides with the birthday of an Important Historical figure? Let’s learn about World Art Day and about the unfinished works of Leonardo Da Vinci to remember him on his birthday. World Art Day

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New Exhibition in Delhi Addresses Dualities in Visual Art

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The Dvaita Dualities exhibition in New Delhi dives into life’s opposites, from black and white to heavy and light. Curated by Ankon Mitra at The Lexicon Art, this group show features 11 artists. They mix paintings, sculptures, and installations to reveal how contrasts blend into oneness, much as India’s bustling streets do. Opening on 18

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