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The Shape of a Show: India’s Leading Curators on Their Practice

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What does it mean to build meaning in space? Five of India’s most significant curators reflect on the philosophy, process, and persistent challenges that define curatorial work today. R. Siva Kumar One of India’s foremost art historians, R. Siva Kumar (born 1956) has been teaching art history at Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan since 1981, making […]

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Neha Jain Blends India’s Heritage with Modern Wall Magic at UDC Homes

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In India’s colorful design world, tradition mixes with new ideas. Neha Jain shines as a smart leader. She co-founded UDC Homes. This brand has changed home décor for over 25 years. Neha did not start in design. She studied money and business at a school in the UK. Then she switched paths. Now she runs

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Sneha Ostawal on Experiential Architecture and the Human Touch

D-Talks, Interview /

In the vibrant world of Indian architecture, few voices resonate as intuitively and empathetically as Sneha Ostawal’s. As Principal Architect and Founder of Source Architecture—a Bangalore-based studio celebrated for its context-led designs across architecture, interiors, and experiential environments—Sneha has spent over 15 years redefining how spaces can truly inhabit lives. A graduate of RV College

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Akanksha Patil’s Solo Show Set to Open in Delhi

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Mumbai-based artist Akanksha Patil

Opening on 27 March 2026, Akanksha Patil’s Narratives in Transit is a deeply political solo exhibition curated by veteran critic-curator Georgina Maddox, and hosted at Gallery Art Positive, Lado Sarai, New Delhi. ​ The Exhibition Narratives in Transit takes as its subject one of the most pressing yet under-examined crises of contemporary India — the forced displacement of rural and

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Manjot Kaur: Interspecies Agency and the Rewriting of Myth

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Manjot Kaur

Artist Manjot Kaur’s paintings, the lush, liminal world interprets the Indian miniature tradition and seeks novel ways to present it, producing a new lexicon and visual delight. As we know, painting is the art of seeing, and it enlarges and broadens the viewer’s world when engaged with. This is achieved in Kaur’s painting through translating

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Bose Krishnamachari Resigned Over Sexual Harassment Complaint, Kochi Biennale Foundation Confirms

Kochi Muziris Biennale, News /

The Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) has confirmed that a sexual harassment complaint filed against artist and co-founder Bose Krishnamachari was among the reasons for his resignation from the post of President of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) and from the Board of Trustees of KBF in January 2026. Krishnamachari helped found the Biennale in 2012 and

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Ranbir Kaleka’s Circular Stories: Time, Memory and the Moving Image

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Ranbir Kaleka

At Vadehra Art Gallery, an ongoing exhibition, Circle of Stories by Ranbir Kaleka, unfolds as a quiet yet deeply immersive experience that asks viewers to slow down and reconsider how stories are told. Spread across six multimedia installations created between 2007 and 2025, the exhibition resists the familiar idea of narrative as something with a

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New Exhibition by Kunal Shah in Delhi Traces Space Making

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A new group exhibition titled Space Making : Making Space in New Delhi, curated by interior architect Kunal Shah, brings together artists, architects, and designers to explore how space is conceived, built, and imagined across physical, social, and spiritual dimensions. About the exhibition Space Making : Making Space is a group exhibition presented by Gallery Art Motif in

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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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