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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
TopicIndian artists

Topic: Indian artists

Sculptor KR Nariman shrinks humans and lets the animals take over in Delhi exhibition

Sculptor KR Nariman’s solo exhibition ‘Elemental’, featuring nature-inspired bronze and multimedia works, is on until 6 December at Delhi's Bikaner House.

Who was VS Gaitonde, the reclusive artist whose canvas fetched Rs 67 crore at auction

VS Gaitonde stayed away from the limelight in life but his abstract paintings are making a splash in global auctions, with an untitled work from 1970 being sold for Rs 67 crore this week.

Hanif Kureshi—the artist who converted Delhi’s Lodhi Colony into the first art district in India

Kureshi was living the super-hero life. Doing his advertising job in the day, and by breathing life into the street walls with his graffiti at night.

Indian cubism has lines that sing and dance. It doesn’t have the anxious edges of the West

DAG's latest exhibition 'Deconstructed Realms: India's Tryst with Cubism' takes visitors on an immersive journey through the evolution of Cubism in India.

Painter Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh lived on Rs 50 as student. His father pushed him to study

Artists and admirers gathered to celebrate the 87-year-old post-Partition painter, art historian, and poet Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

Malayali artist A Ramachandran saw poverty for the first time in Kolkata. It changed his art

A. Ramachandran's early works reflected engagement with urban anxiety and socio-political unrest. He later realised that art transcends social commentary.

Roses, dava khana—artist Seema Kohli rebuilds her ‘Pind’ in Pakistan through new exhibition

The exhibition, Khula Aasman, is a visceral journey through the fault lines of memory and migration, tied to the cataclysmic rupture of Partition.

What do Manjit Bawa and Abanindranath Tagore have in common? Reinventing miniature art

Art historian Geeti Sen showed how five artists— Abanindranath Tagore, Manjit Bawa, Waswo X Waswo, R Vijay, and Nilima Sheikh —expanded India’s miniature traditions at her Delhi book launch.

Indian artists must get ready for a new freedom movement. Ashok Vajpeyi’s rallying cry

Poet Ashok Vajpeyi delivered the lecture ‘Our Arts: Our Society’ in memory of Kapila Vatsyayan, the grand matriarch of cultural studies and a preeminent practitioner of the arts in India.

India wasn’t ready for Naina Dalal’s nude paintings in 1960s. At 90, she gets her solo exhibition

Naina Dalal developed her art when the first wave of feminism was still gaining momentum. A week-long exhibition of her works is being held at the Travancore House in New Delhi.

On Camera

India has 7.4% growth, but faltering tax revenue could have implications in coming fiscal year

In the first eight months of the current fiscal year, New Delhi’s net tax intake didn’t even hit the halfway mark of what it expects to collect by March 31.

Grounded no more: Andhra govt revives no-frills Dagadarthi airport near Nellore to boost south coast link

As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.

Army chief lambasts Chinese infra push in Shaksgam Valley. ‘We consider it illegal action’

Speaking at annual press conference, Army chief reiterated that India does not recognise 1963 Sino-Pakistan border pact under which Pakistan illegally ceded Shaksgam Valley to China.

Thank you Donald Trump, again. India now has reason to shed fear of trade deals and risky reform

UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.