All About Indian Museum Kolkata West Bengal The Indian Museum Kolkata, also known as ‘Jadughar’ is located in Central Kolkata, West Bengal. It was formerly known as the Imperial Museum of Calcutta. The collection makes it the oldest and largest museum in Asia of its kind. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world. […]
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Kolkata’s Birla Academy of Art and Culture has announced its 59th Annual Celebrations, scheduled from January 9 to February 8, 2026. Curated by Uma Ray, the month-long program continues the institution’s six-decade tradition of showcasing diverse artistic practices from across India. Since its establishment in 1967, the Academy has served as a vital platform for
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The Hurun India Art List 2025 names Anish Kapoor as India’s most valuable living artist by auction turnover, followed by Krishen Khanna and Sakti Burman, underlining the continuing strength of Indian modern and contemporary art in global and domestic markets. The list’s top ten artists together signal a market that rewards both long-established modernists and
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India has released a revised seismic zonation map under the Earthquake Design Code 2025, placing the entire Himalayan arc from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh under a newly created highest-risk Zone VI for the first time. This landmark shift means that approximately 61% of the country now falls within moderate to high hazard zones, with three-quarters of
Abir Pothi founder Ruby Jagrut writes In today’s challenging time, when you decide to be an artist, I will surely congratulate you. We know what it is to be an artist—experiencing liberation and being able to see, express, and share one’s ideas through visual representation. To be an artist, you must choose first—choose to marry
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The Living Tradition of Gond Art Gond Art comes from the Gond tribes of central India, mainly in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra. Artists use natural colours, fine lines, and rhythmic dots to create lively forms. They paint trees, animals, and myths that reflect their connection with nature. These murals bring stories to life on
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Yashobhoomi, the India International Convention and Expo Centre (IICC) in Dwarka, New Delhi, has received the International Architecture Award 2025 in the Civic Centers category. The award, presented by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, recognizes outstanding global architectural achievements from over
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Arthshila Goa presents AUTOPOIESIS: A Song for Resuscitation, curated by Shaunak Mahbubani, featuring works by six artists from peninsular South Asia: Jahangir Jani, Sajan Mani, Saviya Lopes, Imaad Majeed, Jovita Alvarez, and Priyageetha Dia. The exhibition opens on 6 December 2025 from 6:30–9:00 pm with a live sonic set by Imaad Majeed and remains on
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Replete with life-sized sculpted elephants, coloured red, white and black, projections of light, sound and video, printed carpets, that evoke texture and artificial flowers that give out fragrant smells, the Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery will get a complete makeover for the upcoming exhibition Dream Vision: Nikas Safronov’s first exhibition in India conveys the sensibility of
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In occupied Paris, during WW2, amid the systematic plunder of Jewish collections and French museums, a little-known museum curator, Rose Valland, became one of the most effective resisters of Nazi cultural theft. Working almost alone in the Musée du Jeu de Paume, she persistently saved tens of thousands of artworks from disappearing into the Reich.
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