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As India’s representative at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2026, Skarma Sonam Tashi is carrying an artistic career advancing at an incredible pace, as well as the spirit of an entire high-altitude culture in Ladakh. Tashi, a sculptor whose materials, philosophy, and form speak forcefully to the ecological and cultural crises of our time, was […]
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The quiet town of Maihar has come alive this weekend as the second edition of the MAI Festival (Maihar Art Ichol Festival) unfolds at Art Ichol, bringing together artists, musicians, filmmakers, and thinkers for three days of cross-disciplinary exchange. Conceived as an intimate gathering rather than a spectacle, the festival , running from 20 to 22 February celebrates the
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To mark ten years of India’s first public art district, the Lodhi Art Festival returns from 1–28 February 2026, by St+art India Foundation and Asian Paints, celebrating a sustained vision of public art that brings colour, creativity, and engagement into the heart of everyday urban life. It’s a warm sunny day as graffiti artist from
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Art Basel 2026 will feature select Indian galleries, continuing the country’s presence at the world’s premier art fair despite a relatively modest representation amid 290 exhibitors from 43 countries.Vadehra Art Gallery and Tarq stand out with dedicated projects in the Feature and Statements sectors, respectively, while Chemould Prescott Road and Experimenter participate in the main
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MAP’s third birthday on 18 February 2026 marks the consolidation of a museum that has quickly become one of India’s most important experiments in making art public. Opened on 18 February 2023 as South India’s first major private museum, the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) in Bengaluru now sits at the intersection of collection,
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Bengaluru’s Gallery G is currently hosting The Masters & The Modern: East Edition, a major exhibition spotlighting artists from Eastern India, including Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, and Jharkhand. Curated by Kolkata-based art historian and curator Kallol Bose, the show runs till March 31, 2026, at Gallery G, Maini Sadan, Lavelle Road. Bringing together over three generations of
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“Haal Mukaam: Current Address”, a solo show by Girjesh Kumar Singh, on view at the India Art Fair 2026, profoundly asks questions about home, identity, and what home is. The artist uses bricks and mortar from demolished houses to make these artworks, recasting them into rhetorics of loss, memory, and changed landscapes. Singh’s practice is
India, presenting a curated show at Venice Biennale 2026, one of the most significant exhibitions in the world of contemporary art, with a powerful collective presentation titled ‘Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home’. Five of India’s most vibrant contemporary artists—Alwar Balasubramaniam (Bala), Sumakshi Singh, Ranjani Shettar, Asim Waqif, and Skarma Sonam Tashi—will collaborate on the project,
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Between fairgrounds, collector previews and after-parties, the city’s galleries and institutions are humming with heavyweight retrospectives, tech-inflected experiments and quietly radical solos. Here is a list of exhibitions you should not miss while you are in town. Atul Dodiya: The Gatecrasher at Vadehra Art Gallery DetailsOn View: 3 February – 10 March 2026D53 Defence Colony,
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India Art Fair 2026 features one of its most vibrant and varied artist lineups to date, with up-and-coming artists and new voices expanding the parameters of South Asian contemporary art. Curators, collectors, and critics have taken notice of a particular group among the hundreds of artists participating in this year’s event; they each contribute a
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