Within six hours of day one at the India Art Fair, curator Alaiia Gujral has sold 10 pieces of the collectible design showcase ‘Shifting Horizons’. In the dimly-lit, sparsely-decorated booth, she has brought together pieces by 17 emerging designers, including a fibre-board, teakwood and brass swing, natural dyed rattan and white ashwood stools, and a […]
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No riding boots were to be found at Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi Race Course in the middle of November. On a Saturday afternoon, braving traffic, an unseasonal temperature spike and the risk of whiplash, well-heeled visitors to Art Mumbai walked into a veritable garden of curiosities at the race track. The question was, which to stop at […]
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That Obscure Object of Desire Nine | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Maqbool Fida Husain or MF Husain’s life and death have been a recurring subject of discourse. While his body of work has been celebrated repeatedly, not many exhibitions have been able to evocatively capture the prolific artist and painter’s curious mind and indelible legacy. […]
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That Obscure Object of Desire Nine | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Maqbool Fida Husain or MF Husain’s life and death have been a recurring subject of discourse. While his body of work has been celebrated repeatedly, not many exhibitions have been able to evocatively capture the prolific artist and painter’s curious mind and indelible legacy. […]
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With pomp and spiritual fervour pulsing in its narrow alleys and grand temples, the ancient city of Benares has always drawn the curious and the creative. While the Gangetic city’s backdrop of sacred rituals and timeless traditions continues to captivate even today, Ashish Anand, CEO and managing director at DAG, points out how for centuries […]
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One monsoon day in 1757, in the mango orchards of Plassey, a town that stands between Calcutta and Murshidabad, the British established their empire defeating Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula’s forces. And so, to this land stretching from the foothills of the Himalayas to the steaming marshes through which a thousand tributaries flow into the Bay of Bengal, […]
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For years now, DAG (formerly Delhi Art Gallery) has been more than a gallery. Almost three decades old, with the largest collection of pre-modern and modern Indian art, it has had unusual collaborations — with the Archaeological Survey of India and the National Gallery of Modern Art at Dhrishyakala (Red Fort, Delhi) and with Ghare […]
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Modernist painter Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned painting, Kizhakke Palat Krishna Menon & Family | Photo Credit: Delhi Art Gallery At the intimate space of the Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), inside the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Colaba, a historic painting is under the spotlight. It is a family portrait by India’s first modernist painter, […]
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Giles Tillotson, curator of Tipu Sultan: Image & Distance, an exhibition in New Delhi on the visual history of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, explores the public narrative surrounding these events over two centuries Giles Tillotson, curator of Tipu Sultan: Image & Distance, an exhibition in New Delhi on the visual history of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, explores […]
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