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Latest Exhibition Addressing Printmaking in the Era of AI Opens in Delhi During India Art Fair Week

Coinciding with the 17th edition of the India Art Fair, Dhoomimal Gallery, under the direction of Uday and Sunaina Jain, presents Print Age—a major survey exhibition exploring the evolution and endurance of printmaking in the age of artificial intelligence. The exhibition opens to the public on February 4, 2026, and runs until March 15, 2026, at […]

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GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK Open New Space Together in Delhi, Featuring Shows Running Parallel to India Art Fair

Marking a new chapter in their decade-long collaboration, GALLERYSKE and PHOTOINK will inaugurate their second shared space in Defence Colony, New Delhi, this February. The two galleries, known for their experimental alliance that began in 2016, continue to advance a distinctive collegial model that bridges contemporary art and photography under one roof. To inaugurate the

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The Artist-Curator as Institutional Provocateur: Riyas Komu in Conversation

Riyas Komu occupies a rare and deliberately cultivated position in contemporary Indian art: neither fully artist nor curator, but insistently both. He is an intellectual and institutional force, constantly pushing his boundaries in reshaping how art is produced, encountered, and understood in India and the Indian Ocean world. Over nearly three decades, the Mumbai-based artist

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The Weight of Witness: Materiality and Memory in Birender Yadav’s ‘Only the Earth Knows the Labour’

Birender Yadav’s ‘Only the Earth Knows the Labour’ (2025), which is exhibited at the Muziris Biennale in Kochi, deserves special attention in the context of the ideas it puts forward. The marginalisation of migrant workers is a significant subject in Yadav’s 2025 work. Yadav focuses on the “facelessness” of those who construct our contemporary infrastructure

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Archives of Resistance: The Panjeri Artists’ Union and the Assemblage of Anti-Caste Art

The Panjeri Artists’ Union is an anti-caste art collective based in Banipur, West Bengal, through their project, ‘Assemblies of Hope Amidst the Death-Worlds: A 100-Day Work Proposition’, which is a central highlight of the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2025–2026). This project, set up at the front of the main venue, Aspinwall House, is an ‘assemblage’ that

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Three Critical Exhibitions at Emami Art Interrogate Eastern India’s Creative Practices

Kolkata’s Emami Art launched three significant exhibitions in January 2026, each offering distinct but complementary perspectives on artistic production, inheritance, and material transformation. Together, they constitute a substantial institutional statement on contemporary creativity in Eastern India. Convergences: A Shared Ground — Lineages, Practices, Futures Running through February 14 at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity’s First

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10 Reasons Why Every Indian artist should have an Online Presence?

Introduction One of those is the internet; which have become a much-needed resource for artists, enabling them to share their work, reach audiences, and create careers that can sustain them. For Indian artists, an online presence is not an option; it’s a necessity to survive, and thrive in a competitive art world. Here are 10 reasons why an

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A Dissident’s First Stand in India: Ai Weiwei Brings Decades of Radical Art to Delhi

The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei opens his first solo exhibition in India today at Nature Morte gallery in New Delhi. From January 15 to February 22, 2026, the untitled exhibition at The Dhan Mill complex in Chhattarpur presents works spanning over four decades of artistic practice. A Provocateur’s Philosophy Ai Weiwei approaches art

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NGMA and Gujral Foundation Honour 100 Years of Gujral’s Art in Latest Exhibition

The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), in collaboration with the Gujral Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, is set to inaugurate “Satish Gujral: A Century in Form, Fire, and Vision”, a monumental retrospective celebrating the life and legacy of one of India’s most versatile and visionary modernists. The preview opens this evening, with the exhibition

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The Art of India 2026: Adventures in the Magical Landscapes

Standard Chartered and Times of India have unveiled the fifth edition of The Art of India 2026 , curated by Dr.Alka Pande, at the Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre. Now running through January 18, the nine-day Delhi showcase celebrates India’s pluralistic artistic spirit through nearly 300 artworks spanning modern masters, folk and tribal traditions, and contemporary

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