Art

In photos: 48 Raja Ravi Varma prints with fabric and zari embellishments are on show in Australia

India-Australia cultural exchange: With a 'Maitri' grant from the Australian government and help from conservationists at the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) in Bengaluru, an art gallery in Brisbane is showing Raja Ravi Varma's prints - embellished with fabric, zardozi and bundgi dots - till October 5.

‘Between the river and the ridge’: Peeling back layers of Delhi history, from the Mughal period to the rise of key cultural institutions at Mandi House

After Kolkata and Mumbai, DAG – formerly Delhi Art Gallery – brings its City As A Museum programme to the Capital; with visits to diverse corners from Rashtriyapati Bhavan to the Sunday Book Market at Daryaganj; an exhibition; and an immersive audio tour, among other events.

How to display art beyond hanging it on a wall, and more questions answered at the 2025 Delhi Contemporary Art Week

At Delhi Contemporary Art Week, a look at contextual ways to display the art pieces in your collection, an engagement with the materiality and ideas in contemporary sculpture, and an experience of how art itself can respond to its environment and reference its own source.

What you can't see on Maps: Revisiting an 1,850-km historic route to gold fields in Australia

The theme for Australia's National Reconciliation Week - from May 27 to June 3 - this year is Bridging Now to Next. The Australian High Commission in India is observing it with a show around indigenous Australian art.

‘Exotica to be collected’: Indian plants in East India Company paintings, and a rare plant that fanned Europe's orchid-mania

An ongoing art show at DAG Delhi and a new book by Trinity College literature professor Sarah Bilston revisit two ways in which the British sought to collect plants as well as knowledge about plants from colonized countries.

Zakir Hussain, thumri & fado: In its 10th year, Serendipity Arts Festival goes to Birmingham

In its 10th edition, Serendipity Arts Festival goes global and celebrates 10 years in 10 cities, starting with Birmingham, the UK. The four-day festival, from May 23-26, will showcase South Asian artistry to foster a cross-cultural dialogue.

Dreams, sex and living with art: Yesteryears actor and Lok Sabha MP Shatrughan Sinha's sons Luv, Kussh among 20 artists in 'Art of Confluence' show in Mumbai

6 artworks on show in 'The Art of Confluence' exhibition of digital art as well as traditional media, in south Mumbai. Exhibition on till Sunday, May 26.

Rishikesh art trail, from Beatles Ashram to the streets leading to Ram Jhula and Laxman Jhula

When in Rishikesh, you can't miss the public art along the routes to Ram Jhula and Lakshman Jhula. Also visit The Beatles Ashram, for some cool wall art capturing the vibe of the place. Plus, an art residency in the pilgrimage centre brings together artists from around the world.

Gulammohammed Sheikh retrospective at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art: People, places, histories

Gulammohammed Sheikh retrospective at KNMA Delhi may not be linear, but it captures six decades of the key Indian artist's thought and work across media.

Must see: Attributed to Italian master Caravaggio, ‘Magdalene in Ecstasy’ is in Delhi

In 2014, art historian Mina Gregori said she had found 17th century painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's 'Magdalene in Ecstasy' in a private collection. The Italian embassy in India and KNMA have now brought this work to Delhi for public viewing.

Himmat Shah (1933-2025) — Moulder of earth, Indus Valley-born artist leaves man from Moon at Delhi’s newest gallery

In the last show before Himmat Shah died on March 2, the inaugural 'Vocabulary of Vision' at the newly opened Black Cube Gallery, in Delhi's Hauz Khas, till March 23, brings together nine modern masters — including Gujarat's Lothal-born Shah — and 16 contemporary voices of Indian art.

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Exclusive interview: Artist Shilpa Gupta on how borders divide but they also connect people, why points and moments of transition interest her, and how mobility and travel are integral to who we are as humans.

Why Indian art is 'of high importance and great presence' in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection of 1.5 mn objects

The MET's director and CEO Max Hollein on Indian art in the New York museum, the responsibilities and possibilities for museums in the AI age, bringing shows to India, and why The MET has a digital department of 30-plus people.

Political art: Probir Gupta's migrants in the museum speak of a universal experience of inequality, injustice

Artist activist Probir Gupta highlights inequalities, injustices and instances of shocking violence in his works. The latest exhibition of his works, 'Migrants in the Museum', was mounted at Travancore Palace in New Delhi.

Shedding Raj legacy: 'We actively recognise that Australian art didn’t begin with the arrival of the British in 1770'

Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) director Chris Saines on returning stolen art, giving indigenous arts their rightful place and Indian artists at the ongoing 2025 Asia-Pacific Triennale in Australia.

In photos: Made by Ai Weiwei, Veer Munshi, NS Harsha... 10 must-see artworks at India Art Fair 2025

If you are planning to visit the India Art Fair 2025 and are not sure what to see first, start with these 10 pieces. Also start here if you're unable to go for any reason but would like to keep abreast of what's interesting at the 16th edition of the Delhi art fair.

India Art Fair 2025: 'Indigenous art is not just dots and boomerangs. We speak many different visual languages and methods'

Western Australian artist Darrell Sibosado on treating indigenous art like any other form of contemporary art rather than an 'anthropological display case', coming to the India Art Fair 2025 and why he wants to come back to India again.

Indian history: European travellers were once mad for these mica tablets, painted brightly with scenes from India

'Forgotten Souvenirs', an exhibition of mica tablets painted in Indian cities like Murshidabad and Tiruchirappalli, between the 1750s and 1850s, is on at MAP Bengaluru till February 23, 2025.

Lalit Mohan Sen at 4th Chennai Photo Biennale: Portrait of pre-independent India by an unsung hero of Indian modern art

Lalit Mohan Sen was the first Indian whose Gandhi & Tagore woodcuts were acquired by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum for permanent display. Kolkata’s Emami Art gallery director Ushmita Sahu talks about Sen and his first major exhibition of 70 monochromatic images that Emami brings to Chennai.

‘Dystopia is our reality; forest is my muse & material’: Radhika Agarwala meets AI at Serendipity Arts Festival 2024

Serendipity Arts Festival 2024 showed how Artificial Intelligence & human creativity can meet ingeniously to make art. Radhika Agarwala's video installation depicts what the recently released 'India State of Forest Report (ISFR) 2023' revealed: a worrying depletion/destruction of India's natural dense forests.

Bhupen in Goa — An intrepid ode to India’s first openly gay artist by Gulammohammed Sheikh

Known for his bold expressions of homosexuality in art, the late Gujarati artist Bhupen Khakhar's works were the highlight at the recent 9th edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, in a show curated by artist-friend Gulammohammed Sheikh, whose words made accountant Khakhar make art over six decades ago.

Sunil Kant Munjal: ‘Serendipity Arts Festival must continue to question our role & civic responsibility’

Hero Enterprise chairman & patron founder of Goa's Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) talks to Moneycontrol about its 9th edition, the new platforms launched to foster art for a global dialogue, AI & art, and going to Birmingham next year.

How do you solve a problem like MF Husain?

MF Husain was so prolific, and had such a wide range of interests, over his long career that often exhibitions are able to give only a limited idea of his range and his thinking. It doesn't help that so much of his work is squirreled away in private collections in India and abroad. So how to get a sense of the real MF Husain?

Artist Subodh Gupta on why he continues to work with steel utensils, aluminium buckets: 'They are heavy with stories & emotions'

Artist Subodh Gupta grew up in a railway town in Bihar in the 1960s and '70s, and trained at the College of Art, Patna, from 1983 to 1988. Now he's returning to Patna with an exhibition at the Bihar Museum.