On this day On 17 October, the Indian art world remembers Lalita Lajmi (also spelled Lalitha Lajmi). She was a painter whosedetermination outlasted decades of being overlooked. Born on 17 October 1932 in Calcutta, she passed away on 13 February 2023 at the age of 90. Over a career of more than sixty years, she […]
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At Frieze Masters 2026, Indian Modernism offers a complex, transnational history in its own right. The fair—running at The Regent’s Park, London, from 14–18 October foregrounds overlooked twentieth-century practices, including a rare international presentation of work by modern India’s abstractionist Ganesh Haloi. Spanning works from the mid-1950s through the 1970s, the presentation traces a pivotal
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On this day, Russian painter, war artist, and traveller Vasily Vereshchagin was born. Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (14/26 October 1842 – 13 April 1904) was a Russian painter, war artist and traveller, and one of the first Russian artists to win wide fame abroad. He is best remembered for unflinching war scenes such as The Apotheosis
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On Janmashtami, temples and homes across India fill with images of Krishna. Various iterations and interpretations of Lord Krishna from that of a mischievous toddler to an eternal lover has graced Indian visual culture for many generations. Few figures in Indian mythology have inspired as vast and varied a visual legacy. Across two thousand years,
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Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist whose obsessive dots, pumpkins and mirror rooms made her one of the most recognisable figures in contemporary art, has died at 97. Her studio announced on 27 August that she passed away on 14 August 2026 at a hospital in Tokyo; no cause of death was disclosed in the
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Method’s third edition of Fresh Produce brings together 16 emerging artists whose practices reflect the range and vitality of contemporary art in India. On view from 21 August to 3 October 2026, the exhibition presents artists selected through an open call that received more than 400 portfolio submissions. A Platform for Emerging Practices Rather than
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079|STORIES in Ahmedabad presents Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, a solo exhibition by ceramic artist Khanjan Dalal, curated by independent art historian Lina Vincent. The show opens with a preview on September 6, 2026 and remains on view until September 26, 2026 at the gallery’s Bodakdev venue, before travelling to Latitude 28 in New Delhi
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The Inlaks Residency at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York is a competitive, fully supported two-month spring residency for one emerging Indian photographic practitioner or researcher, offered through a partnership between the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, PhotoSouthAsia (PSA), and ICP. Applications for the 2027 cycle are open until 11:59pm EST on 31 August
Dhi Contemporary’s upcoming group show, Learning from the Ground, asks a deceptively simple question: where does knowledge actually reside? Running from 29 August to 10 October 2026 at Bodhi House in Madhapur, Hyderabad, the exhibition brings together four artists: Dipankar Panging, Saroj Kumar Badatya, Seshadev Sagria, and Shubhankar Chandere, to explore how communities remember, transmit,
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Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is set to present Lines of Flight, the first major retrospective of British–Indian artist Balraj Khanna (1939–2024), running from 30 September 2026 to 21 February 2027. The exhibition brings together more than 40 paintings spanning six decades of Khanna’s career, offering the most comprehensive overview to date of his work as
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