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Textile Art Show in Mumbai Celebrates Constitutional Values

Textile Art Show in Mumbai: Hand for Handmade Foundation launches Hamari Virasat, a captivating Mumbai exhibition that weaves 75 years of the Indian Constitution into 75 handmade textile artworks. Opening 25 April 2026 at 47-A, Khotachi Wadi in Girgaum, it runs until 10 May, daily from 11 am to 7 pm except Mondays. Artisans nationwide […]

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Small Plots, Big Ideas: Apoorva Lekha Designs Bold Spaces

Apoorva Lekha (B.Arch, Acharya College) is the founder of AD Studio9, a Bangalore-based design practice rooted in creating thoughtful, nature-connected spaces. Her journey into architecture began long before formal education, shaped by an early sensitivity to light, materials, and spatial balance. This intuitive foundation continues to guide her design philosophy today. At AD Studio9, Apoorva

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New Solo Show by Irum Rahat Set to Open in New Delhi

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Gallery Pristine Contemporary presents Yeh Kab Ki Baat Hai?, a solo exhibition by Irum Rahat, in New Delhi. This exciting solo show features 16 paintings on memory, interiors, and shifting identities. It opens at Gallery Pristine Contemporary on 23rd April 2026. Rahat’s art shows how memory flows and changes, not stays fixed. Rooms, people, and actions repeat but

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Art and War: How Artists Have Portrayed Conflict Across Time

War has always been a powerful and troubling part of human history. It brings destruction, fear, and uncertainty, but it also shapes nations, cultures, and identities. Alongside soldiers and leaders, artists have played an important role in responding to war. Through paintings, drawings, prints, and later photography and installations, artists have tried to capture the

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Krishen Khanna’s 5 Paintings Featuring Christian Religious Symbolism

Krishen Khanna, one of India’s most celebrated modernists. This article delves into five significant works where Christian iconography becomes a lens to reflect on suffering, compassion, and search for spiritual meaning in the fractured world. 1) The Last Supper 2) Betrayal 3) Meeting at Emmaus 4) Peita 5) Thou Sayest So Featuring Image Courtesy: Saffron

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Hastaantar: In the Language of Hands, Reimagining Cultural Continuity

HASTAANTAR: Dawn of Transmission, a one-day exhibition organised by Jiyo Live It, unfolded as a thoughtful and immersive exploration of how knowledge lives, moves, and endures through the human hand. More than a conventional showcase, the event positioned itself as a living archive—one that foregrounded memory, labour, and embodied knowledge as central to India’s cultural

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