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Walking the Talk: Gita Balakrishnan and the Architecture of Empathy

Architecture, Interview /

In an era when design is often equated with visual spectacle, Gita Balakrishnan stands out for turning architecture into an instrument of empathy and social change. Trained at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and later at Carnegie Mellon University, she began her career with hands-on community work in Bangalore’s slums through AVAS, […]

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Inside Ask Aakriti: India’s First AI-Powered Guide to Indian Art

AI /

Aakriti Art Gallery will launch Ask Aakriti, India’s first AI-powered Virtual Art Advisor, on 17 July 2026. The platform appears on www.aakritiartgallery.com and aims to help collectors, students, researchers and art fans. It uses the gallery’s two decades of research, archives and curatorial know-how. What Ask Aakriti does Ask Aakriti answers questions about artists, artworks

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Three Exhibitions Showcasing Sumit Sarkar, Ann Carrington, and Emerging Voices in Hyderabad

Exhibitions /

Kalakriti Art Gallery in Hyderabad is currently hosting a trio of concurrent presentations—Liminal Threshold, In The Viewing Room, and A Special Viewing of Works by Ann Carrington—on view from 20 June to 18 August 2026, following a preview on 19 June. The exhibitions bring together contemporary practices from India and abroad, anchored by two solo presentations and

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Andreas Angelidakis Reimagines the National Pavilion as an Anti-Fascist Escape Room

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /
Andreas Angelidakis

Andreas Angelidakis, an architect and artist from Athens, is making waves at the Venice Biennale with his artwork, which is characterised as providing an anti-fascist escape room with purposefully campy touches. His work encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including publishing, exhibition design, architecture, and curating, and as a self-described internet addict, he uses and

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Lines of Trauma: Mapping Partition Through the Body and the Border

Artist Profile /

In 1947, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British barrister who had never visited India before, was commissioned to delineate a line bifurcating British India. He was handed outdated maps and obsolete census data to divide the country primarily based on religious demographics. A few weeks later, on August 17th, the Radcliffe Line was announced, formalising the

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Unboxed 2.0 Brings Queer Voices to the Fore at Art Junction, New Delhi

Exhibitions /

Unboxed 2.0, the second edition of the queer art exhibition at Art Junction, The LaLiT New Delhi, has a special preview on 26th June 2026, reaffirming the space’s commitment to inclusive and progressive cultural programming. Co-curated by Naresh Kapuria, Praveen Mahto, and Shashi Baghwar, and organised in collaboration with The LaLiT Suri Hospitality Group and

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Making Art Accessible: Sonika Agarwal Recreates her Works for an Open Studio 

Exhibitions, Review /
Life’s Dream Acrylic on canvas with led light panel 48 x 60 inches

Tucked away in the quiet lanes of New Friends Colony, up a stone staircase is the studio of Sonika Agarwal, which unfolds a reiteration of her most recent exhibition, What Remains Awake curated by Myna Mukherjee at Bikaner House Kalamkaar Art Gallery. The exhibition ran from January 30 to February 10, 2026 and was open

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New Exhibition Explores Migration and Memory at Delhi

Exhibitions /

New Delhi’s Latitude 28 will host Overland, There’s Shorter Time to Dream, a group exhibition curated by Shristi Sainani, opening on 7 July 2026. Bringing together sixteen artists from diverse geographies, the exhibition examines migration beyond physical movement, focusing on memory, displacement, language, and evolving notions of belonging. On view until 25 July, the exhibition features

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