art world
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A century on, Begum Rokeya’s feminist science fiction is still inspiring Indian artists
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A pioneer of performance art in India reflects on her decades-long journey
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A painting of Akbar in a drunken brawl is a history lesson in manliness and kingship
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Why is Surya the only god in the Brahmanic pantheon to wear high boots?
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Why these travel posters sparked a fiery debate between Indian and British legislators in the 1930s
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After seeing Mysore art in a gallery, one man has spent his whole life collecting and conserving it
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How did an Italian prisoner of war end up painting these beautiful frescoes in a Dehradun church?
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In paintings: How foreign artists saw Benaras in the 19th and early 20th centuries
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Please touch: Indian art is finally growing sensitive to the needs of the visually impaired
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An Indian artist who helped decolonise Christian art has been relegated to the margins in death
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Going bananas: ‘Run as Slow as You Can’ is a hyperreal comment on our image-obsessed times
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A robot in a 400-year-old painting of Jahangir is a lesson in how rulers project global power
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How did the Indian langur end up in a prehistoric mural in Greece?
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How Mughal badshahs and begums became a source of inspiration for 19th-century French playing cards
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Durgabai Vyam interview: The Adivasi painter on how Gond art is responding to contemporary times
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Open letter: Kochi-Muziris Biennale artists flag organisational challenges that led to postponement
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At the Museum of Christian Art in Goa, glimpses of India’s artistic syncretism
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Drawing Hindu epics in Art Deco style, this Polish artist left behind a striking legacy
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Dora Maar and Françoise Gilot were not just Picasso’s muses – they were artists in their own right
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‘In all my years, no gallery has represented me’: Savindra Sawarkar on Brahmanism in the arts
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Art logistics has come a long way since the time Ashoka pillars were shifted to Delhi
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Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe portraits reveal the darker side of 1960s America
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In India, the world of NFTs suffers from the same inequalities as the world of traditional art
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With ‘Suspended in Time’, Ali Kazim addresses the decolonisation debate in the art world
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A historic collection of Indian and Pakistani art is gathering dust in Delhi
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What did the Cold War have to do with a computer art exhibition sent to India in the 1970s?
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NFTs by chimpanzees is the latest chapter in a long history of animals in the art world
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In Subodh Gupta’s paintings of forest fires, our ecological fears and fates get conflated
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On display in London, natural history paintings by an obscure 19th-century Bengali artist
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Nita Ambani appointed to board of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum
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The 16th century erotic revolution that made Italy accept nudity in high art
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Ambedkar in South Africa: With a new installation, Riyas Komu creates an archive of resistance, hope
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Through destruction and reconstruction, artist Vivan Sundaram reimagines and retells history
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By celebrating Gandhi, Indian art in Venice shows the way to those debating Godse’s ‘patriotism’
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With his new work, Nityan Unnikrishnan takes the viewer on a wild ride into his world
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How Indian-born artist Krishna Reddy left an indelible mark on printmaking worldwide
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Cellphones and cars: A Kolkata painter is adding a dash of modernity to centuries-old Patachitra art
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One of India’s foremost abstract artists doesn’t want you to read any meaning into her works
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What stories do we explore through art? A visitor searches for the answer at the Kochi Biennale
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Artist FN Souza’s early works reveal his intimate connection with Goa and its people
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A Bengaluru artist shows how plants talk to each other through the internet of fungus
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The Bahujan Art Festival in Mumbai gives marginalised communities a space to raise their voices
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As Panjim turns 175, an art exhibition celebrates its rich past and flags the threats to its future
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Meet the Tamil artist who is preserving memories of ‘surviving the war’ in Sri Lanka
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Temple City meets Smart City: The first Bhubaneswar Art Trail questions rhetoric behind development
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Interview: How Kochi Biennale’s first female curator made the event more inclusive
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Why isn’t artist Dashrath Patel’s brilliance widely recognised? His protégé Pinakin Patel explains
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An art exhibition in Delhi shows how deception can be used as a tool for social commentary
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India’s navratna artists understood that the ‘idea of a nation isn’t about pomp and glory’
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Through markers of identity and layered personal references, an Indian artist explores belonging
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India loves colour. So why is colour-field painting yet to gain a strong foothold in the art world?
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The inaugural Indian Ceramics Triennale puts an oft-ignored art under the spotlight
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Century-old diaries and frayed bills get new backstories in the work of artist Bakula Nayak
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A rare look at the early works of VN Jyothi Basu, one of India’s most accomplished artists
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Before Bhanu Athaiya, the Oscar-winning designer, there was Bhanu Athaiya, the modernist painter
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A Canadian museum is displaying Raghubir Singh’s iconic photographs with a #MeToo tag
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How post-World War II advertisers sold customers on a future of automation
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Photos: How artists of the past imagined our present (and future)
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One of India’s leading artists is offering free art on Instagram for anyone to download and own
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At an exhibition of Kashmiri Pandit and Muslim artists in Srinagar, there was despair and hope
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‘Admonish me if I call myself Hindu or Muslim’: SH Raza’s art was an exploration of spirituality
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Change of scenery: How Indian offices are able to switch art in their corridors every so often
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How do you take art out of its ivory tower and make it affordable for middle-class Indians?
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How a blind artist in Turkey is challenging the understanding of colour
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The artist of ideas: 81-year-old Zarina Hashmi’s new show revisits the themes of her life and work
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While everyone was fixated on India Art Fair, an anti-art fair stole the show with its energy
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A practice of plenty: A retrospective puts the spotlight on five decades of Vivan Sundaram’s work
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In artist Riyas Komu’s new work, you can see how far India has drifted from its founding ideals
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The next generation of India’s folk artists is breaking from the traditions of their parents
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A Sri Lankan artist’s colourful paintings record nature’s beauty and imminent decline
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Vamona Navelcar: Goa is finally celebrating the artist who reflects all its complexities
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A brush with history: A forgotten 400-year-old fort in Rajasthan gets a second life through art
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A book designer talks about digital collages and what it takes to interpret words
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Why is some art so ridiculously expensive and what drives people to buy it (despite low returns)?
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In photos: Madhya Pradesh’s beauty through Ramleela performers and Allauddin Khan’s old home
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Artist Maya Burman’s psychedelic paintings of children reflect the joys of being alive
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Much before Instagram, the Prince of Prussia sketched everything he loved about 19th century India
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This short picture book by a graphic artist sketches the long life of a 045 Reynolds pen
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An artist in Germany wants Europeans to understand India’s love for cycling
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Dots and dashes: How artist Madhvi Parekh developed her own language to tell stories of her youth
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A croissant Ganesh, a stapler dinosaur and broccoli as hair: This artist will turn anything into art
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Video: How a primary school teacher in California creates stunning ‘hand-stamping’ designs
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Veteran art critic Shanta Serbjeet Singh dies at 81
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Sex selection, Bollywood, urban chaos: Madhubani art is finding new themes after decades
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Video: Meet Wajid Khan, the artist who creates portraits with iron nails
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Half Naked Nude: An Indian artist seeks sensuality in debris on the beach and in household objects
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Before the feast: Hebrew manuscripts show Jewish families cleaning together with candles, feathers
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In Gieve Patel’s new exhibition, you can see the vulnerable figure on the sidelines of society
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Watch: This short film turns a classic painting into a contemporary work of animated art
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An Indian artist is using discarded household gadgets to create a theatre of dreams and aspirations
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The Indian artists who painted home with their brush strokes in a foreign land
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Artist Avinash Veeraraghavan mines the internet for a reflection of the collective unconscious
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Wood from Ships: Memory is artist Nityan Unnikrishnan’s paint of choice
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Art in motion: Performing artists take over the Kochi Biennale
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In the sculptures of these two artists, you can see the burning tragedy of Bastar
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A Pune artist painstakingly cuts up paper in a search for beauty beneath the chaos
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Making the intangible tangible: Curator Sudarshan Shetty on this year’s Kochi Muziris Biennale
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An Indian artist plumps for wildlife conservation by drawing from mythology
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War artist Paul Nash painted in the trenches – and so did I in Afghanistan
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Indian folk art meets Picasso in an Assamese artist's latest work