Art

Where to begin if you want to learn about Indian abstract art? A practitioner responds

When looking at an abstract work of art, ask yourself what it makes you feel rather than what it might represent, suggests artist Bappaditya Roy Chowdhury.

At 75, Triveni Kala Sangam celebrates its multi-arts non-profit DNA with talks, exhibitions

Triveni Kala Sangam turns 75: Exhibitions, performances, talks, and arts and crafts shows marking its 75th anniversary started on 27 February and will go on till 15 March 2026.

Board exams 2026: Scroll break or sketch break? The study reset your brain actually needs

Why the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Delhi, is promoting art-based study resets during exams, and how mindful viewing and active creation can trigger positive changes in mood and focus compared with passive consumption of content.

Fabric and feminism at India Art Fair 2026: East African photographer Thandiwe Muriu on embracing wax fabric and oral histories

At India Art Fair 2026: Nairobi-born photographer Thandiwe Muriu on coming to love East African wax textile prints, how women can perhaps come ‘to love ourselves more’, and coming to love her own Black hair and how it can do its own beautiful thing.

Forget ChatGPT and Instagram, Indian artists are revisiting text and how it makes meaning

Even as social media and ChatGPT change the way we speak and write, artists are pulling text in different directions in their practice. Some examples from recent shows across Goa and New Delhi.

'That's not me. That's not my aesthetic. So why should I do it?' Shubha Mudgal on making music, breaking barriers, sharing stories

Hindustani vocalist Shubha Mudgal on why she won't call any form of art 'low art', and tabla player Dr Aneesh Pradhan on why there is ideally an element of risk in any intelligent performance.

Madras Art Weekend: An art installation evokes Indian histories of trade and textile through indigo

India's long textile history is naturally recalled in an indigo-and-rice-paste-resist-dye installation at the Madras Art Weekend, opening across Chennai from December 3, 2025.

Games People Play 02: Thukral & Tagra mark 20 years in Indian art with show featuring modified table tennis, multitasking game

As they complete 20 years of their art practice, artists Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra bring out games they have designed and modified over the years for visitors to play, see, hear.

'To work with leather today is to enter a space of ethical and conceptual responsibility': India Design ID Mumbai 2025 artist Meera

An artist presenting work at the India Design ID Mumbai, from September 26-28, explains why she works with leather and why she is more interested to evoke the ways in which our world responds to the laws of physics than depicting any one physical form through her work.

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.

The art of furniture placement: How layout shapes the flow of energy at home

Furniture that blends storage with design, layouts that allow easy movement, and materials that feel calm to the senses go a long way in ensuring harmony. It’s a reminder that a home isn’t just meant to look beautiful but it can be emotionally enriching as well.

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.

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.

'Thumbelina': This 1-year-old is the star of a Tokyo exhibition. Her paintings sell for Rs 19,200

The toddler's vivid style is 'babyish but mysteriously dexterous', gallery director -- and matchmaker of her parents -- Dan Isomura said.

Triangle of continuity: How artist S HarshaVardhana carries father J Swaminathan’s legacy forward

S HarshaVardhana’s new solo show ‘Subliminal’ at Delhi’s Art Alive Gallery marks a fresh departure and an arrival in the artist’s oeuvre — from pale hues of his earlier works to a primacy of bold colours — with the triangle at its core and maturity in its articulation.

Lal Bahadur Singh: From signboards & political cut-outs to painting human impact on nature

Artist Lal Bahadur Singh, who grew up in UP’s Ghazipur, says ‘I’m presenting my human society through the figures of birds and animals’ about his exhibition ‘Silent Echoes of a Flight Beyond… and Whispers of the Earth Beneath…’ at Delhi’s Gallerie Nvya.

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.