Athmaja Biju

Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.

Monumental 19th-Century Lucknow Scroll on View at Yale

Monumental 19th-Century Lucknow Scroll Goes on Public View for the First Time at Yale

The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut has put a remarkable 37-foot-long Indian scroll on public view for the first time. The exhibition Painters, Ports and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750–1850 runs until 21 June. A Panorama of Lucknow in Scroll Artists created the scroll between 1821 and 1826. It […]

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National Gallery Selects Tokyo Architect for Major Expansion

Kengo Kuma and Associates with BDP and MICA will design the new tomorrow for the National Gallery

The National Gallery has named Kengo Kuma and Associates, working with BDP and MICA, as the winner of the competition to design its new wing under Project Domani. The scheme is part of a £750 million campaign and will be subject to ratification after a standstill period ending 16 April 2026. According to the National

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South Asian Art Exhibition on Landscape Opens in Paris

Ceci n’est pas un paysage is an upcoming group exhibition of contemporary and modern South Asian art.

Catharsis Art Gallery x TAK Contemporary  presents & curates a new exhibition of South Asian art this month, bringing together modern and contemporary artists under the title Ceci n’est pas un paysage. The group show opens on 9 April 2026 and runs until 25 April 2026 at Galerie l’Aléatoire, 29 rue de Bièvre, 75005 Paris. Exhibition Focus The exhibition takes landscape

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New Group Show at Delhi Explores Memory, Migration, and Making

I Sew My Life Against My Own 1 Iron Sheet Hand Cut and stitched with Brass wire 48 x 80 inches 2023

Exhibit 320, New Delhi, presents I insist, you reckon, a group exhibition curated by Vaidehi Gohil. The show opens on Friday, 17 April, and runs through Saturday, 30 May 2026. It brings together seven artists working across digital media, textile, paper burn, sculpture, and collage. About the Exhibition The exhibition takes insistence as its central idea.

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Maryam Saeedpoor: Witness from Within

Woman Life Freedom

Maryam Saeedpoor is a Tehran-based Iranian photographer whose theatrically staged portrait work has made her one of the most significant visual voices documenting the lives, resistance, and interior worlds of Iranian women. Born in Tehran in 1984, she operates at the intersection of art photography, photojournalism, and quiet defiance, creating images that are simultaneously intimate

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Christie’s Revives South Asian Art Auction in London

Seven years after its last dedicated sale, Christie’s King Street hosts 93 lots from a Bengal-focused private collection, offering some of the rarest works to appear at auction in decades. Christie’s is returning to London for its first dedicated South Asian art auction since 2019. The sale, titled Sublime Shadows: South Asian Art From a Distinguished

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