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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicIndian art

Topic: Indian art

Goddesses, scarecrows and circuses—20 new Madhvi Parekh paintings on display at DAG

Her paintings merge the sacred with the whimsical. Her goddesses are fierce but also joyful. Parekh's painting are on display at the DAG gallery till 23 August.

Art and India’s food history—Lakshman barbecues, Krishna drools over butter

Historian Pushpesh Pant delivered a talk titled Encountering Indian Food in Art and Sculpture at the National Museum in the presence of Director General BR Mani.

India Art Fair is stuffy, elitist and crowded. I am skipping it

There’s a sad sameness to everything at the India Art Fair—even 15 years after its first edition. It’s a gate that stubbornly refuses to accommodate diversity.

Don’t miss these 10 works at the India Art Fair

Embroidery, in particular, is the new trick in town. It has come to mirror a photographic language, capturing stories and textures with an intimacy that paint & pixels fail to hold.

Indian art abroad struggles to come home—tax trouble, red tape, and endless wait at customs

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.

How Jamini Roy infused his art with India’s folk traditions

Roy’s work was instrumental in defining a unique identity for Indian art in postcolonial India. His early works, created post-1930s, featured religious icons from Hindu epics and mythology, Biblical themes and women.

This Indian artist painted Madonna in a sari and angels in dhotis. It outraged Christians

In ‘The Big Book of Indian Art’, Bina Sarkar Ellias gives the reader an illustrated history of the country’s art movements and influential artists.

Orientalist artists romanticised Colonial-era India. Pilgrims disappeared from paintings

There’s a specific gaze that accompanied orientalist artists, a fascination laced with condescension. 'They exoticise, they mysticise, they romanticise,' said DAG's Giles Tillotson.

How feminism shaped Indian art

Mid-1900s' women artists were often exceptional presences in artist collectives with mostly male members - providing counterpoints to prevalent narratives.

BN Goswamy left IAS to be an art critic. And he put Indian art on the global map

Goswamy was a maker of modern India. 'The history of post-colonial Indian art, art history, and art criticism cannot be understood without his career,' said writer Ananya Vajpeyi.

On Camera

Superman Modi to superpower meeting — Indian TV anchors script a Tianjin blockbuster

Tango, triad, trinity, troika — TV news pulled out every T-word from its dictionary and paired it with Tianjin to target Trump on tariffs and trade.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.