Art

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.

Orange peels to bottle caps: Thousands of artists create their own 'Girl with Pearl Earring'

The winners were displayed in a replica frame in the exact spot where 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' usually hangs, between two portraits by Dutch Baroque painter Gerard ter Borch.

'Banksy' vs 'Fake Banksy': Rival exhibitions face off in Serbia over tickets priced at Rs 1,000

Banksy -- whose identity is publicly unknown and the subject of feverish speculation -- has crossed the globe for decades painting clandestine murals in public spaces, including in the occupied West Bank, London and Los Angeles.

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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.