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Art has long stood at the uneasy intersection of beauty and violence. It offers a space where the unspeakable realities of war can be confronted, transformed, and remembered. In the works of Sadegh Adham, Mohsen Keiany, and Sara Shamsavari, war is not merely depicted; it is portrayed. It is reimagined through myth, material, memory, and […]
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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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Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is opening a dedicated phone line for confessions. He is also launching new editions of his most controversial sculpture, a depiction of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. It is to mark the 21st anniversary of John Paul’s death this month, that the launch is happening. When asked if
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Melvin Edwards (1937–2026), who died last week at 88, was a Houston-born sculptor and activist who was raised during segregation and portrayed Afro-American lives in abstract terms. He first studied painting at the University of Southern California before turning to welding in 1959. Building on this distinctive artistic foundation, Edwards crafted intricate, abstract assemblages from
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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 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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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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Continuum, an immersive art exhibition curated by Gauri Minocha in Gurgaon, blends nearly 100 South Asian artworks into home-like spaces for a personal touch from 12 April to 1 May 2026. At The Art Hub Gallery in DLF Phase 1, rooms, hallways, terraces, and lawns host masters like Jamini Roy and Vivan Sundaram alongside fresh
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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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KYNKYNY Art Gallery in Bangalore is currently presenting the Terra Verde, a group show of new works by Bhaskar Rao Botcha, Ganapati Hegde, and Manish Chavda. Running from 27 March to 25 April 2026, the show is free to attend and open Tuesday through Saturday. Devoid of human figures, the paintings collectively make a case
New Exhibition Terra Verde brings Non-human Life to Central Stage Read More »