Shows at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur and City Palace in Jaipur demonstrate fresh power dynamics in the sector

Rising Hindu nationalism and recent incidents of censorship have made exhibitors increasingly cautious to show contentious works

The Chennai-based logistics director, who has recently launched a foundation to promote art in the city, is helping to fund the first Indian retrospective of the gay photographer Sunil Gupta

The 2,600 sq. ft Jaipur Centre for Art is staging a commercially minded exhibition and will soon launch an “open-ended” artist residency programme

Singh considers the vast scale of India's religious, cultural and ideological movements at a time of charged historical revisionism

The New Delhi fair's 16th edition—its biggest yet—welcomes 78 galleries and an expanded design section which builds on the country's ancient craft tradition

The immersive, hologram-filled Ram Katha Museum in Ayodhya is planned to open next year, while the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation struggles to secure funding for a mosque and museum nearby

Paintings attributed to major Modernists in a recent show at the gallery of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) are facing scrutiny

Mandeep Raikhy's touring work, inspired by the prehistoric statue Dancing Girl, considers how the past is wielded in the present

Nikhil Chopra and the collective HH Art Spaces will curate the next instalment of the prestigious Indian exhibition, scheduled to open in December 2025

The fair welcomed 71 galleries this year, while local competition intensifies

It is the latest Indian gallery to expand to a second city

The seven works were seized by Mumbai customs last year due to their sensitive content

Kureshi decorated India’s public spaces with beautiful, provocative and socially engaged murals

Work by more than 30 Indian artists, made between 1975 and 1998, explores a period of social and economic upheaval

The new event, with a focus on contemporary art and design, will coincide with the existing fair Art Mumbai in November

The politician lost the Faizabad constituency in which he built the controversial Ram temple

Two academics analyse our review of 'Ancient Sculptures' at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, which brought together sculptures from India with those from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Assyria

Powerful patrons and a Global South-dominated international exhibition ensure the nation’s artists are front and centre—despite the government’s decision to not stage a show

Is a return for the disgraced art dealer that unthinkable? Plus, how Article 23 might impact the art sector, and a closer look at a royal weapon coming on show in London

Steel tycoon family is behind arts venue in Vijayanagar

Vikrant Bhise’s paintings at Anant Art gallery explore the suffering of marginalised communities and depict anti-caste leaders like Ambedkar 




Although the sceptics say we have been here before, there are ample reasons to believe India's art economy has entered a new era

Pop: Fame, Love, Power at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre is an unprecedented but surface-level survey for a broad audience

The region’s previous art market boom and bust has some at the New Delhi event questioning whether this new wave can be sustained

The event continues to innovate—including a design section for the first time this year—as a new Mumbai-based fair ups the game for the South Asia region

Plus, the challenges facing the Old Master market and a lithograph by Honoré Daumier

The Ram temple in Ayodhya, consecrated next week, has been the subject of a long and deadly campaign by Hindu nationalist groups

The event’s largest edition welcomes new participants and marks a moment of consolidation for the financial capital’s established dealers

'Ancient Sculptures', put together by the British Museum, the Getty, Berlin State Museums and Mumbai’s CSMVS, is rated "one of most important ever in an Indian museum"