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Inside Historia Denaturalis: Ravi Agarwal and the Rewriting of Denaturalized History 

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Ravi Agarwal and the Rewriting of Denaturalized History

Written by Dr. Rahul Dev    Historia Denaturalis is an engaging title for a recent exhibition at Gallery Espace, New Delhi. Curated by Damian Christinger, a Zurich-based independent curator, the show highlights Ravi Agarwal’s extensive body of work on ecological issues in contemporary art, including photojournalism, artistic research, new installation forms, photo performance, and activism. Agarwal […]

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Mayur Kailash Gupta Explores Sculptural Form In New Show

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Mayur Kailash Gupta has his solo exhibition What Form Retains in New Delhi investigates balance, proportion, and metaphysical geometry through sculptural forms. About the Exhibition What Form Retains, presented by Bhavna Kakar at LATITUDE 28, brings together a striking body of three-dimensional and relief works by Baroda-based sculptor Mayur Kailash Gupta. The exhibition extends the lineage of Indian

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New Show The Sacred Aesthetics Explore Rajasthan’s Traditions

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New Show The Sacred Aesthetics Explore Rajasthan’s Traditions

Indiyart by Rooftop presents The Sacred Aesthetics, a new art exhibition in New Delhi spotlighting Phad and Pichwai painting traditions by master artists Prakash Joshi and Mukut Joshi. About the Exhibition The Sacred Aesthetics, a showcase by Indiyart (Rooftop), brings together two of Rajasthan’s most revered art forms—Phad and Pichwai—under one roof. The exhibition runs from

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Line as Witness: New Solo Exhibition by Yusuf in New Delhi

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The solo art exhibition by Yusuf in New Delhi presents a comprehensive look at the artist’s decades-long inquiry into the transformative power and rhythmic precision of the humble line. About the exhibition Curated by Sanya Malik’s Black Cube Gallery and Shantanu Sharma, ‘Line as Witness’. It serves as an accumulation of years of rigorous practice

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NGMA Bengaluru Hosts Solo Photography Exhibition by Asha Thadani

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“I to Eye: Shades of Humanity,” featuring black-and-white works by photographer Asha Thadani

The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Bengaluru is currently showcasing the in-house curated photography exhibition “I to Eye: Shades of Humanity,” featuring black-and-white works by photographer Asha Thadani and curated by Amrutha R. Presented under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, the show highlights the evocative power of monochromatic storytelling to capture

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From Villa Anantya to GOMA HQ: Nayan Shah’s Context-Driven Design

Architecture, D-Talks, Design /

In an industry that often celebrates the loud and the monumental, Nayan Shah, founder of the Mumbai-based studio Palindrome Spaces, prefers a different frequency. Since establishing the firm in 2018, Shah has been quietly refining a design language where light, proportion, and memory take center stage, recalibrating the rhythms of daily life without ever “shouting

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Design in India: Story of the Civilization Itself

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Design's Journey Through Indian Civilization

Ancient Foundations: Urban Planning and Craftsmanship Design in India has evolved through a long, layered history where craft, technology, and ideology constantly intersect. From ancient urban planning to contemporary digital interfaces, Indian design has negotiated between tradition and modernity, utility and symbolism, local forms and global influences. The earliest evidence of design consciousness in India

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In Conversation with Cop Shiva: ‘Being Gandhi and Marginal Voices’

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Cop Shiva

Cop Shiva is one of India’s most significant contemporary photographers. In Like Gold, a collateral exhibition at the Kochi Muziris Biennale, he presented ‘Being Gandhi’, which explores the tension between the banal and the formal, between bureaucracy and emotion, and exemplifies his ability to navigate and express the ambivalence of photography and contemporary visual culture.

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Ranjani Shettar: Cloud Songs and Non-Figurative Ecologies

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Ranjani Shettar, Venice Biennale 2026

The visual poems of sculptor Ranjani Shettar, a notable Indian artist, advance India on the international scene at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Drawing on customs, materials, and natural language, Shettar’s art offers a distinctively Indian yet global language of art that is sustainably created. Born in 1977, Ranjani Shettar earned her BFA (1998) and MFA (2000)

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Amit Ambalal’s ‘Leela’ Exhibition Opens at Mumbai

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Sakshi Gallery in Mumbai will host veteran artist Amit Ambalal’s fifth solo show titled Leela, opening tomorrow and running through March 31, 2026.​​ The preview takes place on Thursday, February 26, 2026, from 6 pm to 9 pm at the Ground Floor Gallery, Sakshi Gallery, Third Pasta Lane, Colaba, Mumbai.​ The exhibition remains open to the

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