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Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, will open a new solo exhibition by artist Om Soorya titled Place No Trace / Trace No Place: The Luminous Twilight on January 24, 2026. The exhibition will remain on view until February 21, 2026, at the gallery’s space in Golf Links. The exhibition presents a new suite of paintings that transform landscapes into expansive, immersive […]
Method Delhi will present RITES, a solo exhibition by Berlin– and New York–based artist and technologist Alida Sun, on view from 31 January to 15 March 2026. Coinciding with the India Art Fair as an official Parallel event, the exhibition explores the intersections of code, ritual, embroidery, mirrorwork, and computational heritage through a lens of care, solidarity, and resistance. At
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Kolkata’s Emami Art launched three significant exhibitions in January 2026, each offering distinct but complementary perspectives on artistic production, inheritance, and material transformation. Together, they constitute a substantial institutional statement on contemporary creativity in Eastern India. Convergences: A Shared Ground — Lineages, Practices, Futures Running through February 14 at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity’s First
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Delhi’s cultural calendar is set to welcome a new marquee event this February with the inaugural edition of Kahaani: Dilli Ki, a two-day festival devoted to the capital’s layered spirit, history, and living heritage. Scheduled for 14 and 15 February 2026 at the Travancore Palace, the festival has been curated and conceptualised by Sara Abdullah Pilot and Aishwarya Jha of
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Valentino Garavani, the legendary Italian couturier known for his signature “Valentino Red” gowns and dressing royalty and celebrities, passed away on January 19, 2026, at his Rome residence surrounded by loved ones. He was 93 years old, with no official cause of death disclosed, though reports suggest natural causes given his age. Early Life and
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Antonio Paucar, a Peruvian artist born in 1973 in Huancayo, has been named the winner of the 11th Artes Mundi Prize, receiving £40,000 from the UK-based biennial contemporary art award. The announcement came on January 15, 2026, at the National Museum Cardiff, where Paucar’s works form part of a group exhibition running until March 1,
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Gallerie Nvya is presenting two concurrent exhibitions of works by contemporary artist Seema Kohli at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, in January 2026. Together, the shows offer an overview of Kohli’s multidisciplinary practice, highlighting her engagement with mythology, ecology, gender, and the body. The first exhibition, titled Bodies of Sky, Bodies of Earth, is on view
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Iranian advocacy and human rights groups say several Iranian artists have been killed in the latest wave of anti‑government protests that began late December 2025 and have since spread across the country. The incidents come amid a wider and exceptionally violent crackdown by security forces, who have used live ammunition, metal pellets, and mass arrests
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The 11th edition of Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography kicked off Friday with a vibrant opening rally and inauguration ceremony that set the tone for a festival conceived as “a movement, a resistance, an awakening,” in the words of founder Dr. Shahidul Alam. Running through January 31 across five venues in the capital, this
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Helsinki Central Library Oodi, situated in front of the Finnish Parliament is a public “living room” whose architecture is choreographed around democracy, everyday life and the changing idea of what a library should be. ALA Architects have designed it in service of access, openness and shared civic life. Site, symbol and first impression Oodi occupies
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