India
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"
'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
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
India's Kochi-Muziris Biennale turns ten—and gears up for its long-delayed fifth edition
Curator Shubigi Rao says this edition represents the resilience of art practices that have weathered the pandemic's storm
The global mental health crisis: Wellcome Trust launches international science and art project to help people cope
Mindscape initiative is a programme of residencies and exhibitions in museums across the world that explore psychological wellbeing post-pandemic
Mumbai to get major new venue for art and performance—funded by one of India's richest families
The Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre will include exhibition halls and a 2,000-seat theatre
Controversial $1.8bn redevelopment of Delhi’s parliament complex enters second phase
A number of the Indian capital's major cultural institutions, including the National Museum, will be rehoused
'Indian art is in deep crisis': Anish Kapoor on his home country, 75 years after independence
Freedom of expression in India is dead because of Modi's "Hindu Taliban", the artist says
'A logistical nightmare': how deteriorating India-Pakistan relations affect the South Asian art trade
From smuggled paintings to cancelled visas, the heads of the subcontinent's fairs, biennials and galleries weigh in on the ramifications of the contested border
An Indian artist on staging a public art project across the Indo-Pakistan border
New Delhi-based Manisha Gera Baswani discusses her ongoing series Postcards from Home that photographs fellow artists in both countries
How partition divided a centuries-old manuscript between India and Pakistan—and continues to plague the region's heritage
Research on the Chandayan of Mulla Da’ud has suffered ever since 24 folios narrating the love story were split up across the border in 1947
India and Pakistan turn 75: exhibitions on independence and partition to see around the world
From Kolkata to Chicago, here are 11 shows that deal with the many histories of nationhood and freedom in the subcontinent
Gandhi's handwritten notes to Lord Mountbatten on the eve of India's partition go on show
Group exhibition at John Hansard Gallery in Southampton is curated by the Mumbai artist Jitish Kallat and includes works by Kader Attia and Zarina
Delhi's delayed Partition Museum set to open this winter
It will be India's second institution dedicated to the mass displacement of 1947