Testimony in Ash: Kulpreet Singh and the Politics of the Burning Field
Manmeet K. WaliaSingh’s Indelible Black Marks, currently on view at the Hayward Gallery, London, serves not merely as protest art but also as filial testimony, drawing from his ties with Sikh traditions and a lived e

24 Jul 2026 | Review

Traces of Collapse Between Ruin and Repair
Biraaj Dodiya’s Grid for a Disappearance and Prabhakar Pachpute’s Lone Runner’s Laboratory at Experimenter, Kolkata, explore the idea of collapse through fragile human and animal bodies, suffering the

24 Jul 2026 | Review

The New Language of Stitch
Ornella D'SouzaAn emerging visual language in Indian contemporary art blends technology and coding with embroidery, and champions a collaborative vision of work and authorship.

24 Jul 2026 | Essay

Inherited, Worshipped, Disputed: Whose Land Is It Anyway?
A show held last month at Art and Charlie, Mumbai, brought together three artists from southern Rajasthan to illustrate how the ecology and faith systems of an ancient landscape inform their practices

24 Jul 2026 | Review

The Dig and the Weight We Place on Non-Specialist History
Arundhati BhanA discussion around Sowmiya Ashok's book The Dig brings back the debates around dating and interpreting this archaeological site in South India, but through a generalized narrative-driven account that

24 Jul 2026 | Review

Tyeb Mehta, A.A. Raiba, and the Weight of a Good Display
Shankar TripathiOngoing shows on two key modernists represent a refreshing experience taking over galleries in India, where curation and design do not merely show art but conspire with it to provide deeper meanings.

24 Jun 2026 | Review

Indian Art at the Met, MoMA and Carnegie International
Namrata GhoshTwo exhibitions in New York and one in Pittsburgh showcase the breadth of Indian visual culture, from colonial devotional prints and feminist photographic practices to art installations.

24 Jun 2026 | Review

Into the Grotto
Shivangi JalanSlow Rot at Method Gallery, New Delhi, brings together ten artists who engage with the aesthetic of the grotesque by de-familiarizing bodies to evoke a sense of shock in the viewer.

24 Jun 2026 | Review

Bodies that Break, Lines that Bleed
Mrinalini VasudevanReba Hore’s birth centenary exhibition at Debovasha is part of a growing rediscovery of the female modernist’s introspective mind through her sketches, paintings, sculptures and diary entries.

24 Jun 2026 | Essay

Exploring the Natural and Industrial in Mumbai’s Eastern Seaboard
Sunhil Sippy in Conversation with Sachin SharmaSippy speaks about personal interests, technical processes and socio-political concerns that shape his project of capturing a lesser-photographed side of Mumbai along the eastern coastline

24 Jun 2026 | Interview

Continuing the Choreographies in Deep Green
Kuzhali JaganathanSmitha M. Babu’s paintings at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, offer glimpses into the changing landscape of her village in Kerala, and raise larger questions around cultural and political shifts.

25 May 2026 | Review

Spinning Cloth and Tales of Colonial Branding
Mekhala SinghalTicket Tika Chaap at Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum shows how the creation of Indo-British trademark symbols enabled a rich cross-fertilization of art and tradition with technology and modernity.

25 May 2026 | Review

Paper as Material Inquiry and More
Ornella D'SouzaGrams Per Square Matter views GSM more as a way of thinking through texture and enabling collaborative techniques of working with paper, rather than as a mere measure of weight.

25 May 2026 | Review

Groups, Unions, Communities: Art Collectives in Bengal
Soumik Nandy MajumdarRecent work by Chander Haat, Gabaa and Panjeri Artists' Union in galleries, biennales and public spaces have thrown new light on the legacy of and contemporary experiments with this form of collaborat

27 Apr 2026 | Review

Pressing Pause on Ranbir Kaleka’s Moving Images
Shankar TripathiEven as Circle of Stories risks flattening the complexity in Kaleka’s works through its insistence on circularity, the images hold the potential to mark rupture and surprise, as they linger between pr

24 Apr 2026 | Review

Two Shows, One Expansive Idea of Space
Ornella D'SouzaCurations by Kunal Shah, Siddhartha Das and Chiara Nath build dialogues between various practitioners and their design and architectural practices, revealing both the openness and the limits of treati

24 Apr 2026 | Review

Olivia Fraser on Revisiting the Rajasthani Miniature Tradition
Arundhati BhanThe artist discusses her training in Jaipur, her engagement with handmade paper and pigments, her interests in nature and spirituality, and how she navigates her cross-cultural identity.

24 Apr 2026 | Interview

Three Women Benefactors of the Art World
Critical CollectiveCritical Collective interviews Anu Menda, Sana Rezwan and Shefali Varma about patronage, public art, and the evolving role of private initiatives in shaping India’s contemporary art ecosystem.

25 Mar 2026 | Review

Inside the Purgatorial Worlds of Sumakshi Singh
Ornella D'SouzaFor the Venice Biennale 2026, the artist transforms the architecture of her grandparents’ house with new work in her trademark use of thread occupying the space between memory and disappearance.

25 Mar 2026 | Review

The Sun Rises in the East: Ronny Sen’s Gaze Turns Speculative
Neerja DeodharIn Sen’s vision, an analogue learning machine, left behind a century ago in rural Bengal, poses questions about memory and history.

25 Mar 2026 | Review

India Design ID 2026: The Many Lives of Syncretism
Ornella D'SouzaThe event positioned syncretism not as sentiment, but as structure, aligning Indian craft traditions with global collectible design markets.

25 Feb 2026 | Review

Becoming at 50: Inlaks Shivdasani and the Burden of an Anniversary Exhibiti
Shankar TripathiINTERSECTIONS: Sites of Becoming at Arthshila, New Delhi, critically connects 45 artists to celebrate 50 years of the Foundation’s journey in supporting the arts.

25 Feb 2026 | Review

Untold Stories of Bangladesh’s Women: In Conversation with Leesa Gazi
Priyanka BasuThe Bangladeshi British director discusses her theatre and film projects on women survivors of the 1971 Liberation War and the diaspora community in UK, along with the recent political changes.

25 Feb 2026 | Interview

Gatecrashing Art History
Gayatri SinhaIn a freewheeling interview, Atul Dodiya speaks of his many painterly inspirations, and the role of memory and free association in his newest exhibition.

11 Feb 2026 | Interview

The Cosmological and Humanitarian Conjectures of Jitish Kallat
Sachin SharmaThe artist juxtaposes celestial archives with terrestrial lives to create a counter archive that challenges the Western epistemic order of cosmological knowledge.

11 Feb 2026 | Review

A Splendid Malkauns in Dharavi
Gayatri SinhaThrough nocturnal bus rides, unpunctuated monologues, shadowed streets of Dharavi and resultant sculptures, Sudarshan Shetty’s A Breath Held Long asks existential questions about survival in the city.

11 Feb 2026 | Review

Deterritorializing the Natural, Recentring the Cultural
Sachin SharmaRavi Agarwal’s Historia Denaturalis exposes the exploitative and extractive history of human interventions in the natural world, but is also restrained by an anthropocentric view.

11 Feb 2026 | Review

IAF Parallels 2026: Fragile Bodies and Resilient Threads
Arundhati BhanWhile Neerja Kothari’s durational drawings trace and test the artist’s recovery from illness, Rahul Jain and Gunjan Arora create textile sculptures through fabric retrieved from industrial waste.

11 Feb 2026 | Review

The Fabric of Resistance
Shivangi JalanThe exhibition subverts the passive nature of textiles, reframing cloth-making as a radical site of political resistance and reclaimed agency.

11 Feb 2026 | Review

Where the Party Used To Be: Inside Delhi’s Most Unlikely Exhibition Space
Ornella D'SouzaHoused in a shuttered Connaught Place nightclub, Party Is Elsewhere transforms dust, ruin and constraint into a curatorial strategy that challenges conventional modes of display.

11 Feb 2026 | Review

Tales of India by a Middle-Class Traveller
Ornella D'SouzaKaushik Saha’s Cabinets of Curiosities turns travel experiences into quiet, unsettling scenes of everyday life, capturing an India shaped by unfinished spaces and uncertain futures

11 Feb 2026 | Review

Inside and Outside the Camp: A Conversation with Dhiraj Rabha
Chandan BorgohainThe interdisciplinary art practitioner speaks about how the experience of growing up in an ex-ULFA camp in Assam, informs his work on memories, histories and political conflict in Northeast India.

23 Jan 2026 | Interview

“A Huge Appetite for the Arts in Saudi Arabia”
Gayatri Sinha in Conversation with Nora Razian and Sabih AhmedThe curators of the 2026 Diriyah Biennale reflect on emerging cartographic identities and institutional and infrastructural developments for the arts in the Middle East.

23 Jan 2026 | Interview

Mithu Sen at the Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2026
Anindo SenThe artist’s latest show, What do Birds Dream at Dusk, deals with the theme of blindness as a political act/condition, using it as a metaphor for the tyranny of propaganda and apathy, but also of hope

23 Jan 2026 | Review

Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla: Synonyms of Spectacle
Gayatri SinhaWith the designer duo performance at Art Mumbai 2025, the event has taken a leaf out of the Bollywood fashion playbook to signal a new direction for art fairs.

24 Nov 2025 | Review

Framing the Region: Curating South Asian Art in a Global Context
Manmeet K. WaliaTarini Malik discusses her exhibition, A Story of South Asian Art, and what it reveals about how institutions shape stories of art, culture and knowledge exchanges between India and the UK.

24 Oct 2025 | Interview

The Middle East Effect
Critical CollectiveGallerists Prateek Raja, Peter Nagy, Ashish Anand, and Shireen Gandhy discuss the rising influence of Indian contemporary art in the Middle East, a new hub in the global art scene.

25 Jul 2025 | Interview

On Reena Saini Kallat's Cartographies of the Unseen
Anindo Sen in conversation with Tasneem Zakaria MehtaThe curator of Kallat's latest show talks about how the artist's works fit in within the context of the Bhau Daji Lad Museum and speak to histories of migration and colonial rule.

25 Apr 2025 | Interview