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Thematic Core of India Art Fair 2026: Reimagining the Future Through Tradition, Technology & Community

India Art Fair 2026 /

The India Art Fair 2026 presents a mesmerising thematic framework that celebrates cultural diversity, connects the past and present, and firmly establishes South Asian art on the international stage. Through its exhibitions, discussions, installations, and carefully planned programs, the fair’s main topic, “Art in a Transforming World,” highlights how artists acclimate to rapid changes across […]

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India Art Fair 2026: A Monumental Outdoor Experience

India Art Fair 2026 /

The India Art Fair 2026 redefines the visitor experience with an impressive line-up of outdoor installations, turning the grounds into an open-air art museum. This year’s edition invites visitors to engage with modern innovation well beyond the boundaries of conventional gallery spaces by emphasising public art that is ambitious in scale, experimental in substance, and

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Must-See Projects at the India Art Fair 2026: Abir Pothi Curates

India Art Fair 2026 /

The India Art Fair 2026, the largest art fair in South Asia, is set to open with an extraordinary burst of colour, creativity, and cutting-edge ideas—bringing together some of the most compelling voices in contemporary South Asian art. Galleries and artists pushing limits through immersive installations, experimental materials, digital breakthroughs, and potent socio-cultural tales, this

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Tilfi’s “Avimukta: The Never Forsaken” bridges heritage and contemporary art at Triveni Kala Sangam

Exhibitions /

Triveni Kala Sangam, currently celebrating its 75th anniversary, has transformed into a vibrant node of the India Art Fair ecosystem as the Young Collectors’ Programme (YCP) returns this year with its 2026 edition. Avimukta: The Never Forsaken, a monumental site-responsive installation is presented by Tilfi, the Banaras-based atelier renowned for its handwoven silks and metal

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India Art Fair 2026 Set to Open with Record-Breaking 133 Exhibitors

News /

The India Art Fair, taking place at the end of Delhi’s winter and promising a lively celebration of creativity, innovation, and artistic interaction, is getting ready to open from 5 to 8 February 2026. The cultural calendar shifts toward one of India’s most anticipated art events. This time around, the art festival is vibrant with

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Beyond the Algorithm: AI, Design, and the Enduring Value of  Craft 

craft & Handmade, Visual Culture & Ai /

Vishal Bhand Ph.D.  The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed the landscape of design,  from generative visuals and predictive trend analysis to automated prototyping and mass  customization. As algorithms become increasingly capable of simulating creativity, an inevitable  question arises: What happens to human-led design, craft practices, and traditional knowledge  systems in the age

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Listening to the Space: A Review of ‘Drifting Through the Quiet Veins’ Show, Running Parallel to India Art Fair

Exhibitions /

Gallery Dotwalk’s move to a new, strategically located location in Defence Colony, New Delhi, represents a major institutional transformation; it symbolises a conscious broadening of the gallery’s connection with India’s art capital’s thriving art environment. By establishing itself within this historic cultural hub, Dotwalk aspires to foster a more intimate accessibility between current practice and

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Body Politics and the Question of Fluidity: Decoding Manjot Kaur’s Artistic Eco-System

Artist Profile /

In Manjot Kaur’s paintings, the lush, liminal world interprets the Indian miniature tradition and seeks novel ways to present it, producing a new lexicon and visual delight. As we know, painting is the art of seeing, and it enlarges and broadens the viewer’s world when engaged with. This is achieved in Kaur’s painting through translating

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The Weight of Witness: Materiality and Memory in Birender Yadav’s ‘Only the Earth Knows the Labour’

Kochi Muziris Biennale /

Birender Yadav’s ‘Only the Earth Knows the Labour’ (2025), which is exhibited at the Muziris Biennale in Kochi, deserves special attention in the context of the ideas it puts forward. The marginalisation of migrant workers is a significant subject in Yadav’s 2025 work. Yadav focuses on the “facelessness” of those who construct our contemporary infrastructure

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Adieu, Vivan Sundaram: The Somatic Echoes of A Life Pursued

Kochi Muziris Biennale /

Vivan Sundaram’s artworks exhibited at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale are immense, eerie works that connect his late-career meditations on mortality with his lifetime of political activism. Sundaram’s use of industrial materials to capture the frailty of the human body is best described as a choreography of the transient. ‘Six Stations of a Life Pursued’ is presented

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