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Striking Histories: Indian Matchbox Labels and the Making of a Visual Culture

Design /

Before matchboxes became museum items or collector’s memorabilia, they occupied a far more intimate role in everyday lives: wedged between cigarette boxes, resting beside kitchen burners, tucked away in shirt pockets, and passed from hand to hand in the quiet rhythm of mundane life. A major part of India’s visual art culture lies outside art […]

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Dr Alka Pande: Mapping India’s Visual and Cultural Imagination

Profile /

Dr Alka Pande is one of India’s most renowned art historians, and curators, with a practice that bridges scholarship, exhibition-making and public pedagogy. For over three decades, she has worked on Indian aesthetics, visual culture and gender, shaping how diverse audiences encounter the subcontinent’s artistic and cultural histories. Pande holds postgraduate degrees in History and

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Shared Epic Worlds at Sunder Nursery Explores Centuries of Indo-Iranian Exchange

Exhibitions /
Shared Epic Worlds

“Shared Epic Worlds: The Shahnameh, the Mahabharata, and the Indo-Persian Imagination,” currently on view at Sunder Nursery, is not simply an exhibition about two great epics. It is about movement—of stories, manuscripts, images, languages, and ideas across centuries of interaction between Iran and India. Against the backdrop of current geopolitical tensions, the Iran Culture House

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Prairie Ark: Büro Ziyu Zhuang lands a saucer-like gallery on Mongolia

Architecture /
Prairie Ark: Büro Ziyu Zhuang lands a saucer-like gallery on Inner Mongolia

Büro Ziyu Zhuang has completed Prairie Ark, a public gallery on the shores of Lake Laoli in the Ulanchabu Steppes of Inner Mongolia, about 160 kilometres west of Beijing. The building reads like a flying saucer that has come to rest on the grasslands, lower and more horizontal than a conventional museum. Studio founder Ziyu

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In – Equal Measure Explores Time, Perception, and Social Hierarchies

Exhibitions /
Aditya Krishnamurthy _ Monday _ Acrylic on wood panel _ 48 x 48 in _ 2025

Akar Prakar, New Delhi, presents In – Equal Measure, a two-person exhibition featuring Aditya Krishnamurthy and Supriyo Karmakar, on view from 30 May to 27 June 2026. The curated note is penned by Siddhi Shailendra. The exhibition unfolds as a contemplative inquiry into perception, structure, and the meanings that emerge in the spaces we often overlook.

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Colours of Maati Brings Contemporary Mithila Craft to Bengaluru

craft & Handmade, Exhibitions /
Colours of Maati

Bengaluru is set to host a significant gathering at the intersection of craft, culture, and contemporary design with Colours of Maati, a two-day immersive showcase by MAATI – The Crafts School, taking place on 5–6 June 2026 at the historic Flat Roof Building, SABHA. Presented by the Mithila Art & Artisan Transformative Initiative (MAATI) and supported

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sā Ladakh Biennale Announces Inaugural 2026 Edition, “Signals from Another Star”

Biennales /

The inaugural edition of the sā Ladakh Biennale, titled Signals from Another Star, will take place from 1–10 August 2026 across the high-altitude landscapes of Ladakh, marking a significant new entry into the global biennale circuit. Positioned at over 3,000 metres, the event is being framed as the world’s highest regenerative art biennale, unfolding across eight

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Lived-in Skin: Textile as Armour as Memory Opens at LATITUDE 28

Exhibitions /

LATITUDE 28 is hosting a new group exhibition featuring artists Sabeen Omar, Meenakshi Nihalani, and Anshu Singh. Their work explores how textiles hold memories, labour, and emotional stories passed down through generations. Lived-in Skin: Textile as Armour as Memory looks at cloth as more than just a material. The artists show how fabric is shaped

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Art Basel Qatar Announces Artistic Director and Theme for 2027 Edition

Art Fair, art market /

Art Basel Qatar has announced the appointment of its artistic director for the 2027 edition, along with the central theme that will guide the fair’s curatorial framework. The move signals the fair’s continued commitment to establishing a distinct regional identity within the global Art Basel network while deepening its engagement with Gulf and trans‑regional art

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