Indian art records are breaking, with Amrita Sher-Gil's work fetching a high price. The market for Indian artists has surged ...
“Dauji II Performing Arati on Sharada Purnima ” (first quarter of the 19th century), Nathdwara, Rajasthan, India, Amit Ambalal Collection (photo by Anuj Ambalal) (click to enlarge) One of India’s most ...
Evolution of Indian Classical Art, written by museologist and collector Anita Bharat Shah and published by Niyogi Books, was ...
In Sanskrit, the term marjara-nyaya refers to a method of devotion in which a devotee completely surrenders to the deity, much like a kitten surrenders to the mother's protective grasp (marjara is the ...
Although he died 14 years ago, aged 95, M.F. Husain is India’s best-known modern artist. He recently became its most expensive, too: earlier this year one of his works sold at auction for $13.8m, a ...
Founded in 1950, the Faculty of Fine Arts of Baroda's Maharaja Sayajirao University in Gujarat transformed the way art is ...
In 1964, the British painter Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) traveled to India, accompanied by a curator of Indian art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Hodgkin had been interested in Indian ...
S H Raza is one of India’s most recognizable artists and his profile has raised to an even higher level after a monographic retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in the first half ...
A regal, indigo-painted portal cuts between a virtual landscape of green hedges and blue skies with high puffy clouds, while playful flute tunes resound through the exhibition’s entrance. Inside, ...
Paintings by Native American artists haven’t been shown often in D.C. museums, Indian artists having long been dismissively pigeonholed as working mainly in “crafts,” such as textiles and ceramics.