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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicIndian artists

Topic: Indian artists

From the lions in Gujarat’s Gir to Ladakh’s apricots, an interlay of art and climate action

The exhibition Sustaina India, a collaborative initiative by CEEW and artist duo Thukral and Tagra, houses 10 art installations. It ends on 15 February.

Amrita Sher-Gil and the melancholy of ordinary existence

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.

‘I like trespassing into people’s lives,’ says photographer Rohit Chawla at his book launch

Rohit Chawla's 'Portrait of an Artist' was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival by Bipin Shah. The book is a collection of photographs taken over the years.

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.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.