India

India at Venice: no pavilion but more presence than ever before

Powerful patrons and a Global South-dominated international exhibition ensure the nation’s artists are front and centre—despite the government’s decision to not stage a show

The Week in Art podcast | Inigo Philbrick and art world fraud, Hong Kong’s new security law, a Maharaja’s sword

Is a return for the disgraced art dealer that unthinkable? Plus, how Article 23 might impact the art sector, and a closer look at a royal weapon coming on show in London

Indianews

India's caste issues given rare spotlight in Noida exhibition

Vikrant Bhise’s paintings at Anant Art gallery explore the suffering of marginalised communities and depict anti-caste leaders like Ambedkar 




Art marketcomment

Third time may be the charm for India’s budding art trade

Although the sceptics say we have been here before, there are ample reasons to believe India's art economy has entered a new era

Mumbaiblog

Blockbuster Pop art show in Mumbai marks a new type of exhibition for India

Pop: Fame, Love, Power at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre is an unprecedented but surface-level survey for a broad audience

Indiaanalysis

‘Gangbusters’ domestic economy sees prices rise at India Art Fair

The region’s previous art market boom and bust has some at the New Delhi event questioning whether this new wave can be sustained

Art marketpreview

For the first time in its 15 years, New Delhi’s India Art Fair has competition

The event continues to innovate—including a design section for the first time this year—as a new Mumbai-based fair ups the game for the South Asia region

Rewriting history? The fraught politics behind India's new Ram temple

Plus, the challenges facing the Old Master market and a lithograph by Honoré Daumier

Indianews

As India erects a grand Hindu temple on site of razed mosque, more Islamic heritage faces prospect of destruction

The Ram temple in Ayodhya, consecrated next week, has been the subject of a long and deadly campaign by Hindu nationalist groups

Art marketanalysis

Mumbai Gallery Weekend opens to a city primed for market ascendancy

The event’s largest edition welcomes new participants and marks a moment of consolidation for the financial capital’s established dealers

Exhibitionsanalysis

Only connect: far-reaching show in Mumbai embodies culture, aesthetics, religion and politics

'Ancient Sculptures', put together by the British Museum, the Getty, Berlin State Museums and Mumbai’s CSMVS, is rated "one of most important ever in an Indian museum"

Eminent New Delhi gallery Nature Morte to open outpost in Mumbai

A solo show by Subodh Gupta will inaugurate the space, located in the gallery hub district of Colaba, this month

India's first family of art looks back over 60 years of history and politics

Anniversary exhibition at Mumbai's oldest gallery, Chemould Prescott Road, dusted off the archives, featuring artists such as Mithu Sen and Atul Dodiya

A fragile resource: new Pattani Archives space offers rare glimpse into world of influential Indian royal family

The venue will bring together photographs, works of art, political documents and more that showcase art in the country as it transitioned through independence

A brush with... Sutapa Biswas

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from the the textural, labour-intensive work of Howardena Pindell to Jean Cocteau's film Orphée

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
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Indian steel tycoons to launch art centre near historic site of Hampi

The billionaire Jindal family will open the exhibition venue and artist residency space in February next year

South Asia’s highest exhibition of land art debuts at 12,000 ft in the Himalayas

The site-specific show addresses the ecological crisis facing the Indian region of Ladakh—and, subtly, the politics behind it

Museumscomment

'Controversy at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi raises important questions over private museums in public life'

The firing of a curator for making critical statements against the museum's founder has prompted a long-overdue debate within the art world

Art and Bollywood go off to the races: Mumbai to get first major art fair this November

Art Mumbai, run by the founders of one of India’s biggest auction houses, will see around 50 galleries take part in its inaugural edition

For India's biggest private collector, David Adjaye designs his 'most advanced museum concept' yet

The architect's vision for the new Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi, opening 2026, honours India's multiple cultures and religions at a time of heightened nationalist politics

Indian government challenges British newspaper report that it is making 'largest repatriation claim' against UK

Sources state that demands made for thousands of objects in British collections have been "significantly overstated", and that the report is "misleading"

'What the violent destruction of a Muslim library in Bihar tells us about the troubling state of Islamic heritage in India'

The recent communal violence which burned down the Azizia Madrasa occurred in the wake of numerous recent laws targeting Muslims

India’s ‘first installation artist’ Vivan Sundaram has died, aged 79

Multi-disciplinary practitioner was inspired by the 1968 Paris demonstrations to organise artist and student group protests during Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule of 1975-77

Biggest-ever India Art Fair aims to diversify pool of South Asian collectors

With the top level of the region's art market back in rude health, the Delhi fair is doubling down on fostering a new generation of buyers

Museumspreview

Bangalore's new Museum of Art & Photography looks to attract India's digital generation

While the pandemic held up MAP's construction it made 100 exhibits available online—a strategy that will continue beyond its physical opening

Police investigation prompts French auction house to postpone sale of Chandigarh furniture

Reports of thefts of heritage furniture items from buildings across the Indian city have risen over the past ten years

Mumbai's commercial gallery scene undergoes major 'post-pandemic' expansion

India's leading dealers have added or opened locations in the city—but newer independent spaces are fewer on the ground

'Unprecedented' in South Asia: India's leading private art museum forms transnational partnership with Bangladesh foundation

Collaboration between Samdani Art Foundation in Dhaka and Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art brings the institutions—and the powerful collectors behind them—closer together

At the last hour, Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India postpones opening citing 'organisational challenges'

Exhibition's fifth edition has been met with a number of issues, ranging from shipping delays to adverse weather