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

The Sixth Edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale: A Rising Tide
Gayatri SinhaAs curator of this year’s biennale, Nikhil Chopra addresses precarity and issues of survival by foregrounding the human body, while invoking hope and empathy through a strong community spirit.

24 Dec 2025 | Review

Placing “The Body at the Centre”: Interview with Nikhil Chopra
Critical CollectiveEmphasizing “process above objects,” Chopra speaks to Gayatri Sinha about curating a biennale that privileges labouring bodies, performativity and ephemerality.

24 Dec 2025

The Spectacular Arts Festival: Between Play and Polycrisis
Uttaran Das GuptaThis year’s Serendipity Arts Festival follows the Indian and global trend in art festivals and biennales, where performativity becomes a spectacle to attract audiences, but is also used as a tool to a

24 Dec 2025 | Review

Collapsing Distances
Gitanjali DangSalt Lines, the first solo exhibition in India of artist duo Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser, which listens to the desires of other than human worlds that slip beneath our perceptions.

24 Dec 2025 | Review

CC Shorts: Of Letters and Language
Ornella D'SouzaAshfika Rahman’s Of Land, River, and Body brings to light ethnic and communal violence in Bangladesh, while Ravikumar Kashi’s Shadows of Breath champions the loss of vernacular languages.

24 Dec 2025 | 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

Winter 2025 Exhibitions at Experimenter, Kolkata
Sneha BiswasRadhika Khimji’s The Line is Time uses the phenomenology of geographies to engage with a sense of the uncanny in the natural world, while Sohrab Hura’s The Forest and A Winter Summer turn landscapes i

24 Nov 2025 | Review

The World and Its Viewer in Anju Dodiya and Nicola Durvasula’s Works
Mekhala SinghalTwo ongoing exhibitions in Mumbai -- Dodiya’s The Geometry of Ash and Durvasula’s Abstracts -- though different in style and content, commonly urge viewers to reflect on their interactions with everch

24 Nov 2025 | Review

Reviews of Exhibitions at Art Alive, Vadehra and Apparao Galleries
Ornella D'SouzaA discussion of Shibu Natesan's watercolours, a family show dedicated to the works of Benode Behari, Leela and Mrinalini Mukherjee, and a group exhibition on cartographic imaginations.

24 Nov 2025 | Review

Gathering Poetic and Protesting Voices
Sachin SharmaImran Kokiloo creates a sonorous ecology of Kashmiri literature and syncretic history, while Aban Raza brings new sites of political resistance and solidarity to the gallery space.

24 Nov 2025 | Review

The General Public as Disobedient Subjects in K.L. Nursey’s Photos
Mekhala SinghalAvrati Bhatnagar and Sumathi Ramaswamy explore a set of photographs from the Civil Disobedience movement in 1930s Bombay, focusing on the revolutionary courage of ordinary citizens.

24 Oct 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

Ebrahim Alkazi’s Vision for the Arts
Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry and Parul Dave MukherjiPaying tribute to Alkazi on his birth centenary, Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry and Parul Dave Mukerji speak to Gayatri Sinha about his transformative journey from the stage to the gallery.

24 Oct 2025 | Interview

What is an Object? Jesal Thacker’s Lost and Found at Gallery Espace
Shivangi JalanThe exhibition brings together eight Indian artists who explore familial relationships, urban spaces and larger questions of time, memory and erosion through everyday objects.

26 Sep 2025 | Review

From Torso to Memorial
Neerja DeodharIn the first iteration of Sundaram's last show, an exploration of the personal and political -- the wounded body, and the incarcerated one

26 Sep 2025 | Review

Protocols and Pigeonholes
Mustafa KhanbhaiFor over a century, art institutions have struggled to accommodate adivasi art forms into their top-down systems. Meanwhile, artists in Bastar have found a way forward with models like DIAA.

26 Sep 2025 | Essay

Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera: Shilpa Gupta at Galleria Continua
Kush JariwalaGupta’s latest works unsettle the concept of neatly ordered nation-states, revealing “the impossibility of precision” and the pointless nature of borders.

25 Aug 2025 | Review

The ‘Shared Worlds’ of Curating and Facilitating
Shankar TripathiNath discusses the curation of Shared Worlds, a 15th anniversary exhibition of Exhibit320, her use of “radical proximity” in generating layered dialogues and the growing visibility of Indian art.

25 Aug 2025 | Interview

In Letter and Spirit
Meera MenezesMarking modernist artist Ram Kumar’s birth centenary, an exhibition at the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru, reveals that he was not only an accomplished painter but also a man of letters.

25 Aug 2025 | Review

Interweaving the Historical and Contemporary in Kallol Datta’s Fabrics
Mekhala SinghalVol IV: Truths, Half-Truths, Half-Lies explores how Datta revisits medieval Korean and Japanese clothing to highlight the role of textiles in shaping the rights and identities of marginalized groups.

25 Jul 2025 | Review

Revisiting Mrinal Sen’s Chorus of Street Voices
Mrinalini VasudevanIn Speech Acts, Madhuja Mukherjee’s video installations and Amritah Sen’s illustrations place Mrinal Sen's 1970s films on Calcutta in dialogue with political anxieties in contemporary Bengal.

25 Jul 2025 | Review

Paradise Regained with V.N. Jyothi Basu
Shankar TripathiIn ‘The Outlier’, Jyothi Basu’s art brings to life electrifying surreal landscapes, otherworldly objects, and a unique new order relevant to human experience.

25 Jul 2025 | Review

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

An Epic March - Krishen Khanna at Hundred
Gayatri SinhaThe most enduring of the Bombay Progressives, Khanna is also an astute commentator on the human condition.

04 Jul 2025 | Essay

A Cosmopolitan Imagination in Raqs Media Collective's Cavalcade
Amreeta DasThis delirious mediascape of carnivalesque togetherness blurs the boundaries between the human and non-human to look towards an inclusive, hopeful future, amidst a planetary crisis.

25 Jun 2025 | Review

Review: Material as Metaphors
Namrata GhoshKolkata's restored Currency Building hosts an exhibition that highlights the significance of materiality in a range of works, engaging with themes like ecological crises, labour, caste and gender.

25 Jun 2025 | Review

Shaktirupa: Affective Power of Manuscripts and Miniatures
Arundhati BhanAn ongoing exhibition at the LD Museum exhibits texts and images where the Devi is an embodiment of metaphysical principles like power (shakti), wisdom, and cosmic order.

25 Jun 2025 | Review

Cabinets of Colonized Curiosities
Ornella D'SouzaA Treasure of Life marks DAG’s third major show on Company Paintings and revisits its representations of botanical, architectural, and ethnographic images from a contemporary perspective.

25 Jun 2025 | Review

Review: (Un)layering the Future Past of South Asia
Shasti LowtonAn exhibition at SOAS, London with 26 young artists from the subcontinent, who engage with issues that mark its troubled political churn and the lingering legacy of Empire.

23 May 2025 | Review

Charting her own Cultural Map: The Legacy of Shanu Lahiri
Mrinalini VasudevanAn early modernist from Bengal, three recent exhibitions on Lahiri have thrown new light on her individual career path in her role as an arts educator, activist and archivist.

23 May 2025 | Essay

Gagan Singh and the Art of Subversive Intimacy
Arunava BanerjeeIn this conversation piece, Singh traces his artistic evolution, its irreverent engagement with form, and the paradoxes of circulating disruptive art in galleries and algorithm-driven platforms.

23 May 2025 | Interview

The Anxious Smile in Vicky Roy’s Photographs
Shankar TripathiEven as Roy’s images of childhood are often viewed through the lens of warmth and resilience, a closer look at them points to the systemic inequality that shapes and limits these young lives.

23 May 2025 | Review

In Conversation with Madhuban Mitra and Manas Bhattacharya
Critical CollectiveThe Kolkata-based artist duo speak about their engagement with memory, history, industry, labour and the material conditions of visual technology through photography and video.

25 Apr 2025 | Interview

In Pallavi Paul's Gaze, Love and Breath Make the World Go Round
Neerja DeodharPaul documents the power of solidarity and care amid contagion and death in her latest show, How Love Moves.

25 Apr 2025 | Review

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

The Indian Pictorialist: Dhirajlal R. Mody (1910-1990)
Mekhala SinghalA family archive has thrown light on the talents of this pioneering 20th-century photographer, highlighting his images of working-class life and his contributions to the Photographic Society of India.

25 Apr 2025 | Review

Ashok Ahuja Reprogrammes the Matrix
Sachin SharmaIn his latest exhibition of digital artworks, Ahuja attempts to find moments of fluidity and flux within the highly programmed matrices within everyday life.

25 Apr 2025 | Review

Probir Gupta's Memorial to Migrant Lives
Mrinalini VasudevanThe artist's latest solo exhibition, Migrants in the Museum, weaves stories of marginalized communities into histories and institutions that have traditionally discriminated against them.

25 Mar 2025 | Review

Transformative Pedagogies at the J.J. School of Art
Sarang SharmaA review of the DAG exhibition, Shifting Visions: Teaching Modern Art at the Bombay School, which foregrounds this historic institution as a site of contested negotiations with modernism.

25 Mar 2025 | Review

Britto Arts Trust: A Spectrum of Shared Practices
Critical CollectiveThe Dhaka-based artist-run non-profit collective speaks about their collaborative practices and community-driven projects within and outside Bangladesh, that engage with socio-political themes.

25 Mar 2025 | Interview

Moments of Intersectionality at India Design 2025
Radhika SharmaThe brands and displays at this year’s event, revolving around close interactions between art and design, prioritized sustainability and craft revivalism over commerce and visual appeal.

25 Mar 2025 | Review

Review: Modular Waltz
Inspired by some of Chandigarh’s iconic brutalist buildings, Avantika Bawa pays homage to architecture in its barest forms through works that lie at the intersection between drawing and sculpture.

25 Mar 2025 | Review

A World to Be at Home In
Gayatri SinhaThe Gulammohammed Sheikh retrospective, Of Worlds within Worlds, presents works from different phases of his career that highlight his expansive, syncretic views of world and Indian history.

13 Feb 2025 | Review