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Major U.S. and European Galleries Join National Strike Against ICE Crackdown

International Art News /

A wave of prominent art galleries across the United States and even in Europe will shut their doors on Friday, January 30, in a coordinated act of protest against the Trump administration’s expanded Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and the use of deadly force against demonstrators. The action, part of a nationwide general strike, […]

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GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK Open New Space Together in Delhi, Featuring Shows Running Parallel to India Art Fair

Exhibitions /

Marking a new chapter in their decade-long collaboration, GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK will inaugurate their second shared space in Defence Colony, New Delhi, this February. The two galleries, known for their experimental alliance that began in 2016, continue to advance a distinctive collegial model that bridges contemporary art and photography under one roof. To inaugurate the

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The Artist-Curator as Institutional Provocateur: Riyas Komu in Conversation

Interview /

Riyas Komu occupies a rare and deliberately cultivated position in contemporary Indian art: neither fully artist nor curator, but insistently both. He is an intellectual and institutional force, constantly pushing his boundaries in reshaping how art is produced, encountered, and understood in India and the Indian Ocean world. Over nearly three decades, the Mumbai-based artist

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Body Politics and the Question of Fluidity: Decoding Manjot Kaur’s Artistic Eco-System

Artist Profile /

In Manjot Kaur’s paintings, the lush, liminal world interprets the Indian miniature tradition and seeks novel ways to present it, producing a new lexicon and visual delight. As we know, painting is the art of seeing, and it enlarges and broadens the viewer’s world when engaged with. This is achieved in Kaur’s painting through translating

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The Weight of Witness: Materiality and Memory in Birender Yadav’s ‘Only the Earth Knows the Labour’

Kochi Muziris Biennale /

Birender Yadav’s ‘Only the Earth Knows the Labour’ (2025), which is exhibited at the Muziris Biennale in Kochi, deserves special attention in the context of the ideas it puts forward. The marginalisation of migrant workers is a significant subject in Yadav’s 2025 work. Yadav focuses on the “facelessness” of those who construct our contemporary infrastructure

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Auspice and Abundance: Ritual Paintings from Hazaribagh Set to Open at Gallery Vayu

Exhibitions /

Gallery Vayu will present Auspice and Abundance: Ritual Paintings from Hazaribagh from February 3 to 15, 2026, coinciding with India Art Fair. Curated by Pramod KG, the exhibition brings together Sohrai and Khovar ritual paintings by acclaimed artists Malo Devi, Putli Ganju, Parvati Devi, and Rudhan Devi, in collaboration with OPS Art Gallery. The show focuses on

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Adieu, Vivan Sundaram: The Somatic Echoes of A Life Pursued

Kochi Muziris Biennale /

Vivan Sundaram’s artworks exhibited at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale are immense, eerie works that connect his late-career meditations on mortality with his lifetime of political activism. Sundaram’s use of industrial materials to capture the frailty of the human body is best described as a choreography of the transient. ‘Six Stations of a Life Pursued’ is presented

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Om Soorya’s Solo Exhibition “Place No Trace / Trace No Place: The Luminous Twilight” Set to Open in Delhi

Exhibitions /

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

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