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.
An exhibition titled ‘Flower of Fire: The Life and Art of Gopal Ghose’s was unveiled at the DAG gallery in New Delhi to showcase the artist's work from the 1930s till his final days.
Historian William Dalrymple gave a talk to art lovers at DAG about an orphaned world of Mughal paintings that embarrassed the British and was dismissed by the Indians.
Most paintings at DAG are 'propaganda works' based on the accounts of British officials who weren't even in India. They were efforts to 'demonise' Tipu Sultan.
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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