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Exhibitions

Khaal Gaon: Stories of Climate Change and Displacement from North-East India  

Conceptual art gives art practitioners more possibilities, equipping ambiguous space for arranging visual arguments and setting them into a ‘laboratory’ to encounter the audience freely. Khaal Gaon is an art project of Anga Art Collective, designed as a laboratory for the collectivity of ideas, individual practices and observations, displayed in Kiran Nadar Museum of Art […]

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Fictional Characters of Afra Eisma in Textile Art Projects

Visual art has relied upon Visuals. What we see is the principal thing in visual art, and what we carry and sublimate also matters. Artwork can come anywhere, literature or folklore, a song or resistance, political uprising and revolution. Any event can stimulate artwork. What we see is a manifestation of other things. An artist,

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Kiran Nadar Museum of Art Presents ‘Very Small Feelings’: An Exhibition of Artworks from Dhaka Art Summit

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art’s (KNMA) exhibition titled “Very Small Feelings” (VSF) has made its way to India after being showcased at the sixth Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh in February. The exhibition features over 40 projects encompassing a diverse range of artworks, including new commissions, historical works, performances, books, archives, and various landscapes.

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Revisiting the Legacy of the Progressive Art Movement and the Modern Indian Art

After Indian independence, a group of artists started to think about ‘modern Indian art’ differently, and they thought loudly and formed a group baptised with the name of Progressive Artists Group Bombay. The group reflected that a ‘newly independent country required a face of a new art movement. Progressive Artists Group Bombay (1947-1956) is now

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Shanti Dave: Celebrating India’s Pioneering Abstractionist in ‘Neither Earth Nor Sky’ Exhibition

An upcoming exhibition at the DAG art gallery in India will present over 80 works by Shanti Dave, one of India’s first major abstractionists. Titled “Shanti Dave: Neither Earth, Nor Sky,” the exhibition curated by Jesal Thacker will provide a comprehensive overview of Dave’s artistic journey from figuration to abstraction. Commencing on July 15, the

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Ingenious Collaboration: Nakashima and National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad

George Nakashima, the revered Japanese-American woodworker and furniture designer, left an indelible mark on India’s architecture and furniture design. From his tranquil sojourn at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, where he embraced the name Sunder Nanda, to his collaboration with Antonin Raymond on the iconic Golconde dormitory, Nakashima’s influence was profound. He even developed

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‘Times We Live In’: When Migrant Labours Comes to Painting

It’s not surprising that the real-life experience is reflected in the artwork. We use painting or literature to understand the social settings of a time because they might be included in that ‘creative’ expressions. What is creative is not something that excludes all those social realities; some painters may use the facts to create an

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Through Art, Some Healing and Closure to the Wounds of Vietnam War!

Smriti Malhotra Tuan Andrew Nguyen, an artist whose work uncovers haunting artefacts and stories from the Vietnam War, is set to showcase his videos and sculptures at the New Museum in Manhattan. In his upcoming exhibition titled “Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance,” Nguyen delves into questions of memory and identity with a personal and ambitious

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