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Hastaantar: In the Language of Hands, Reimagining Cultural Continuity

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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 Presents Staged Realities in New Delhi

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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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Shrine Empire Delhi Opens New Space in Defence Colony

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Amitava Das Red Hand, 2025 Acrylic on unprimed , Linen Canvas, Diptych

Shrine Empire Delhi is beginning a new chapter. The gallery has moved to a purpose-designed space in Defence Colony, New Delhi, and marks the occasion with ‘प्रक्रि या / Process’ — an inaugural group exhibition that brings together its full artist roster for the first time. At its heart, Process is an exhibition about making. It positions the act

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StoneX to Open ‘Mastery’ Immersive Film Festival in New Delhi

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StoneX will present the New Delhi preview of Mastery, its cultural film series, through an immersive film festival at Sameksha Art Gallery on April 3 and 4, 2026, from 11 AM to 5 PM. The two-day event marks the opening of a multi-city programme leading up to the series’ release on OTT platforms. Conceived as an immersive experience, the festival

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ShowKeen Exhibition Spotlights Modern Indian Art in Mumbai

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AstaGuru’s ShowKeen exhibition gathers top modern and contemporary Indian artists for a rare showcase in Mumbai on 11-12 April 2026. After two big wins—one in Mumbai last year and another in New Delhi this March—this third edition spotlights India’s art evolution. Expect iconic works from masters like S H Raza and M F Husain alongside

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New Show in Mumbai Features Artworks of Vishakha Apte

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Veteran Mumbai-based artist Vishakha Apte

Veteran Mumbai-based artist Vishakha Apte presents Mapped by Tide and Time, a solo exhibition spanning painting, printmaking, paper constructions, and ceramics, opening in Mumbai this April before travelling to New Delhi. About the Exhibition Mapped by Tide and Time, curated by Ina Puri, opens at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai from 14th to 20th April 2026, and

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Wild Grass Explores the Evolving Indian Village Through Art

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Wild Grass Explores the Evolving Indian Village Through Contemporary Art

Curated by Yash Vikram, Wild Grass at Eikowa Contemporary brings together five artists to examine how rural India is actively reshaping itself in the face of climate change, migration, and modernity. About the Exhibition Wild Grass has opened at Eikowa Contemporary on 20 March 2026, running through 18 April. The exhibition challenges two persistent myths about the Indian

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Akanksha Patil’s Solo Show Set to Open in Delhi

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Mumbai-based artist Akanksha Patil

Opening on 27 March 2026, Akanksha Patil’s Narratives in Transit is a deeply political solo exhibition curated by veteran critic-curator Georgina Maddox, and hosted at Gallery Art Positive, Lado Sarai, New Delhi. ​ The Exhibition Narratives in Transit takes as its subject one of the most pressing yet under-examined crises of contemporary India — the forced displacement of rural and

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C.K. Rajan: Slow Fuse and the Subtle Art of Resistance

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RAJAN ONE, an exhibition of artist CK Rajan’s early works, is the first half of a two-part exhibition at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, providing a clear but subtle look into the artist’s practice. The exhibition, which features works created after 1990, highlights an artist who has consistently pushed against spectacle, developing a modestly scaled, conceptually

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