More than 160 colonial-era photographs that once documented and classified Indians into ‘types’ now gaze back at viewers in a DAG exhibition in Delhi, on until 15 February.
Art historian Yashodara Dalmia at the DAG said that Amrita Sher-Gil reimagined how India should view itself; she reinvented it through the modern lens.
From everyday Mumbaikars to Parsi leaders, the new DAG exhibition 'Face to Face,' traces Mumbai's history and will be on display from 8-11 January at the Taj Mahal Palace.
The long-forgotten ‘marginal Europeans’ of colonial Calcutta took centre stage at ‘The White Other,’ part of DAG’s City as a Museum festival. Among them was the Flemish artist FB Solvyns.
An exhibition at Delhi’s DAG World revisits MF Husain’s paintings a decade after his death in 2011 in London. He left India in 2006 amid hundreds of legal cases, virulent abuse, hate speech, assault, and a climate of fear.
The government’s recent decision to revoke a customs duty exemption on Indian art was the central topic of a panel discussion at DAG in Delhi this week.
A new exhibition at the DAG in New Delhi titled ‘Madras Modern: Regionalism and Identity’ chronicles the journey of 'Late Moderns'. They were largely under-represented in Indian art.
Some 19th-century ‘Reverse Glass’ paintings from China show a blue-skinned Jagaddhatri, and a Mahisasurmardini holding the decapitated head of a distinctly East Asian Mahishasur.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
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