India
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
Often overlooked: The Barbican presents 100 artistic responses to India's turbulent times
Work by more than 30 Indian artists, made between 1975 and 1998, explores a period of social and economic upheaval
New Delhi’s India Art Fair will expand to Mumbai in 2025
The new event, with a focus on contemporary art and design, will coincide with the existing fair Art Mumbai in November
How Indian PM Narendra Modi’s weaponising of heritage backfired in Ayodhya
The politician lost the Faizabad constituency in which he built the controversial Ram temple
Letter to the Editor | 'Your review of a Mumbai show is written through a Kiplinguesque East meets West lens'
Two academics analyse our review of 'Ancient Sculptures' at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, which brought together sculptures from India with those from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Assyria
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
Hampi Art Labs: art meets industry at India's new artist residency and exhibition space
Steel tycoon family is behind arts venue in Vijayanagar
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
'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"