India, and Indians, have always been creators! From painting styles to dance forms, every Indian state has given the world something to be in complete awe of. From the bamboo dance of North East ...
A record sale can change all that, signalling to the world to look at Indian art with new eyes. (Image/X) When MF Husain’s painting Gram Yatra sold for Rs 118 crore at a Christie’s New York auction on ...
A painting by Raja Ravi Varma has set a new auction record for the work of an Indian artist, signaling continued strength at the top end of the market. Yashoda and Krishna (ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 ...
A dedicated contemporary Indian art exhibition is opening at St. Petersburg’s storied Hermitage Museum ...
In 1964, the British painter Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) traveled to India, accompanied by a curator of Indian art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Hodgkin had been interested in Indian ...
In 2008, the National Museum of the American Indian mounted a retrospective of the work of the 20th-century Figurative artist Fritz Scholder. It titled the show “Indian/Not Indian,” referring to the ...
Master of the first generation after Manaku and Nainsukh of Guler, "The sakhi describes Krishna’s lovelorn state to a hesitant Radha," folio from the Second Guler or Tehri-Garhwal Gitagovinda (1765-70 ...
Mumbai's art scene celebrated the inauguration of 'The Gold Dynasty' exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, featuring a diverse ...
Nadar’s museum has been in the making for years, but finding the right space took time. KNMA, a non-commercial, ...
There was a time when Indian modern art was largely collected within intimate circles, industrial families, cultural patrons, and a handful of serious connoisseurs. Today, that world has expanded ...
An Indian oil painting by celebrated 19th century artist Raja Ravi Varma has sold for a record $17.9 million at auction in Mumbai, the highest price ever paid for a modern Indian artwork. Mumbai-based ...
A forgotten oil-on-canvas masterpiece by Indian painter MF Husain, rediscovered decades later, has rewritten the record books for Indian art. Husain's Untitled (Gram Yatra), a sprawling 14-foot-wide ...