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Kiran Nadar received France’s highest civilian award: The Légion d’Honeur

Tsuktiben Jamir The Légion d’Honeur (“the Legion of Honour”) is an award established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 as the highest civilian honour bestowed by the French Republic for exceptional service to France, regardless of the recipients’ nationality. This highly regarded title was conferred to Indian art collector and philanthropist Kiran Nadar on the 28th

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The revival of embroidery: Brinda Dudhat’s ‘Still & Sanguine: Stitches by Morii’

Tsuktiben Jamir The ‘Still & Sanguine: Stitches by Morii’, an exhibition by the art and design movement Morii, who are involved in creating contemporary heritage with the rural craft communities, is now taking place at the Mumbai-based Tao Art Gallery in collaboration with Bougainvillea Gallery. The exhibition will be up until April 10, 2023. The

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Coasting the Topography of South Asian Futurisms: Envisioning the future of South Asia

Tsuktiben Jamir A digital exhibition titled ‘Coasting the Topography of South Asian Futurisms’ is currently live on Hyperallergic, curated by Sadaf Padder. This is an effort to bring together contemporary artists, activists and thinkers in an attempt to explore the future of South Asia through a collection of putative and hypothetical pieces of fiction, art

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Repetition as a Way of Finding God: The Modernist Collages of Panchal Mansaram

Digvijay Nikam ‘Prolific’ is the word that describes the artistic career of the Indo-Canadian artist Panchal Mansaram, who worked every single day over his decades-long career leading to a huge body of work. Born in India in 1934, Mansaram grew up in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, completed his graduation from the Sir J.J. School of Arts

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The newly renovated Manchester Museum: An effort to celebrate the South Asian diaspora in the UK

Tsuktiben Jamir TAKE on Art was founded in 2009; it is a premier English-language publication covering contemporary art and culture from and around South Asia. TAKE on Art magazine, which is published twice a year, commissions articles, profiles, extensive criticism, reviews, and photo studies from prominent critics both domestically and abroad. In regards to their

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The “We ❤️ NYC” Logo, Designed to Bring About a Future Focused on Communities, Is the Subject of Online Debate

A SUMMARY OF THE MOST EXCITING ART NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE While we focus on Indian art, we can’t obviously function in a vacuum. It’s a small world and everything is connected, especially on the web. So, let’s train our spotlight across the world map to see what’s going on — from art trends

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