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Artist Princess Pea wins inaugural Swali Craft Prize

The Chanakya School of Craft has partnered with India Art Fair to offer the $12,000 award

Five artists announced for India's Venice Biennale pavilion

Organised by curator Amin Jaffer, the selected artists all use organic materials traditional to India in their work

Louvre Abu Dhabi director Manuel Rabaté leaves to head India’s largest private art museum

French civil servant joins the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi as it prepares to move to a vast new complex

Kochi Biennale co-founder Bose Krishnamachari steps down as president

The artist and curator has resigned from his position at the Kochi Biennale Foundation citing “pressing family reasons”

Ai Weiwei’s first India solo exhibition to open in New Delhi

A selling show at Nature Morte gallery will include work from across the outspoken Chinese artist’s career—amid reports of rising censorship in India

Art marketanalysis

India’s art market is fast growing—is it also maturing?

At the third edition of Art Mumbai, the trade debated whether the South Asian sales boom is surface level or the sign of something deeper

‘This is how art history is built’: unprecedented Mumbai exhibition unites works of Indian and Arab Modernism

The Barjeel collection in Sharjah has loaned works to the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation for the first-ever show to examine 20th-century art of both regions

Art marketanalysis

With sanctions on Iranian art, buyers are turning to India

As the London art market gears up for Islamic Art Week, its galleries and auction houses face a changing market shaped by geopolitical tension and shifting tastes

Delhi exhibition highlights India's controversial slum redevelopments

‘I Rescued Speed Altogether’ focuses on the objects and landscapes left behind after a demolition—stationery, old toys, half-destroyed houses and smoke

Sotheby’s returns ancient Buddhist gem collection to India after legal pressure

After the Indian culture ministry intervened to halt a sale of the Piprahwa gems, Sotheby’s has sold the trove to a Mumbai conglomerate

Rethinking public art and remembering Koyo Kouoh: inside the Experimenter Curator's Hub 2025

The 14th edition of the Kolkata forum invited leading curators from across the world to debate key issues in the field

Ancient art on wheels: how Mumbai's leading museum is sending miniature exhibitions by bus into the Indian countryside

CSMVS's mobile museum venture, created in collaboration with an exhibition it curated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Berlin State Museums and the British Museum, examines the underlying connections between ancient civilisations

Amid geopolitical tensions, Pakistani and Indian art worlds unite in London exhibitions

During a time of conflict between the two countries, a number of shows are bridging the divide

Leading Indian artist Anita Dube accused of ‘intellectual theft’ after using protest poem in Delhi gallery show

The writer Aamir Aziz said in a widely shared social media post that four works by Dube, offered for sale at Vadehra Art Gallery, use his words without permission

Hotly debated Caravaggio becomes ‘first by the artist to be shown in India’

“Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” will be on display at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi until 18 May

Comment | Commercial galleries are the new rulers of the Indian art scene

Shows at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur and City Palace in Jaipur demonstrate fresh power dynamics in the sector

Art marketanalysis

India Art Fair opens amid a tense Delhi election

Rising Hindu nationalism and recent incidents of censorship have made exhibitors increasingly cautious to show contentious works

Collector Jaiveer Johal on staging a 'milestone moment' in queer Indian art

The Chennai-based logistics director, who has recently launched a foundation to promote art in the city, is helping to fund the first Indian retrospective of the gay photographer Sunil Gupta

Contemporary art space opens in Jaipur City Palace

The 2,600 sq. ft Jaipur Centre for Art is staging a commercially minded exhibition and will soon launch an “open-ended” artist residency programme

Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

Singh considers the vast scale of India's religious, cultural and ideological movements at a time of charged historical revisionism

As competition heats up, India Art Fair refines its vision

The New Delhi fair's 16th edition—its biggest yet—welcomes 78 galleries and an expanded design section which builds on the country's ancient craft tradition

Indianews

‘Not for critique’: museum planned near India's grand Ram temple will ‘skip’ site's history of sectarian violence, official says

The immersive, hologram-filled Ram Katha Museum in Ayodhya is planned to open next year, while the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation struggles to secure funding for a mosque and museum nearby

Authenticity of Indian works in university exhibition questioned

Paintings attributed to major Modernists in a recent show at the gallery of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) are facing scrutiny

Indiareview

Dance performance addresses fraught politics around South Asian heritage

Mandeep Raikhy's touring work, inspired by the prehistoric statue Dancing Girl, considers how the past is wielded in the present

After an embattled edition, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale announces next show

Nikhil Chopra and the collective HH Art Spaces will curate the next instalment of the prestigious Indian exhibition, scheduled to open in December 2025

Art marketanalysis

Bollywood and billionaires: Art Mumbai sees ‘very healthy’ sales at expanded second edition

The fair welcomed 71 galleries this year, while local competition intensifies

Mumbai gallery Mirchandani + Steinruecke to open Delhi location

It is the latest Indian gallery to expand to a second city

Nudes by major Indian artists F. N. Souza and Akbar Padamsee embroiled in 'obscenity' dispute

The seven works were seized by Mumbai customs last year due to their sensitive content

Remembering Hanif Kureshi, the artist credited with popularising street art in India

Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals