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Art Basel: The 5 best Online Viewing Rooms (and more) to check out right away
By Shikha Sethi | GQ India 17 June 2021 The art world’s transition to the digital medium in the wake of the pandemic has been surprisingly seamless: Museums have... Read more -
Newcomers widen the global range
By Dalia Dawood | Financial Times 12 June 2021 Art Basel’s first curator-led edition of its online viewing rooms, OVR: Portals, features an eclectic mix of artists and galleries,... Read more -
S.H Raza's biography is a glimpse into the lesser-known side of the iconic artist
By Arman Khan | Architectural Digest India 11 June 2021 Imagine being born in the early 1920s in a small village in Madhya Pradesh amid the lush, inviting Kanha National... Read more -
From JR's urban interventions to Faiza Butt's sensual ceramics: Discover six fresh voices in ‘OVR: Portals’
By Nicholas Nauman | Art Basel 10 June 2021 Prior to the pandemic, using the Internet to visit galleries from afar felt like a futuristic lark or a convenient... Read more
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A new biography of artist SH Raza celebrates his art and his times
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 25 April 2021 From a life of comfort as the son of a forest warden in Mandala, Madhya Pradesh, to becoming one of... Read more -
Artist Anju Dodiya returns to Europe after five years, for a special show at Galerie Templon, Brussels
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 20 April 2021 After a five-year absence from Europe, the renowned Indian artist Anju Dodiya unveils her latest show Tower of Slowness at... Read more -
The ordered chaos of paper: Sachin George Sebastian’s exhibition draws theme of India’s urban landscape
By Medha Dutta Yadav | The New Indian Express 18 April 2021 Just out of the National Institute of Design, Sachin George Sebastian came across a pop-up book at a second-hand bookstore... Read more -
In new SH Raza biography, Yashodhara Dalmia humanises the iconic artist's life and work
By Ankush Arora | FirstPost 26 March 2021 One of the most successful artists of post-independence India, Sayed Haider Raza would have turned 100 next year. His birth... Read more
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5 best works to glimpse at Delhi contemporary art week: 8th-15th April 2021
By Uma Nair | Times of India 23 March 2021 Vadehra’s curation , Cloud Burst features a diverse set of expressions around the general human condition and undertakings, articulated either... Read more -
Bikaner House: Collaborative in-person exhibitions are back
By Gerogina Maddox | The Hindu 5 March 2021 The last time I walked into Bikaner House was just before the lockdown was announced. I saw an exhibition featuring... Read more -
Hide, and Seek
By Latika Gupta | India Today 21 February 2021 Few practising artists in India are as knowledgeable about international art histories and cinema, popular visual culture and vernacular traditions... Read more -
Expanding the Documentary: In Conversation with Ashfika Rahman
by Anisha Baid | ASAP art 20 February 2021 Ashfika Rahman from Bangladesh studied photography at the Hochschule Hannover, Germany and at the Pathshala (South Asian Media Institute) in... Read more
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Biraaj Dodiya and Udit Bhambri on Collecting, Making, and Seeing Art
Ocula 17 February 2021 Using bold brushwork and deep sensitivity in paintings rendered with a darker palette, Dodiya invokes the feeling of 'moving through... Read more -
SH Raza the modernist, and the man behind the canvas
By Mallika Bhagat | Hindustan Times 14 February 2021 An Indian artist whose work evolved from expressionistic landscapes to abstracts, and found global recognition in pure geometrical forms is... Read more -
Biraaj Dodiya: Excelling the art of articulation
Jasodhara Banerjee | Forbes India 4 February 2021 I arrived in the world of art very early because both my parents are artists,” says Biraaj Dodiya, daughter of... Read more -
Delhi: An all-women show (ME)(MORY) makes a splash at Vadehra Art Gallery
By Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar | Architectural Digest India 22 January 2021 An ode to female artistry, with interdisciplinary conversations around the nature of self-building, will soon assume a novel avatar, in... Read more
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Art that is prescient of the times
By Avantika Bhuyan | Mint 3 January 2021 All through last year, one saw the art world pivot towards the digital, with online viewing rooms (OVR) becoming a... Read more -
Manjit Bawa: Artist par excellence in the figurative style
Hindustan Times 28 December 2020 Born in Dhuri, Punjab in 1941, Manjit Bawa discovered his penchant for art early on in life. Encouraged by his... Read more -
Sunil Gupta: retrospective
The Times 1 December 2020 Merging cultural activism and photography, Sunil Gupta has been instrumental in raising awareness around the fight for international gay rights... Read more -
‘We wanted to have sex all the time’: first major survey of Sunil Gupta—photographer of gay Indian life—opens in London
By Kabir Jhala | The Art Newspaper 9 October 2020 When the photographer Sunil Gupta exhibited his Exiles series—depicting the hidden lives of gay men in Delhi—in a group show... Read more
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ASHFIKA RAHMAN: THE LAST AUDIENCE
by Summer Myatt | Musée Magazine 5 October 2020 The Centurion Cinema Hall in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh is a gleaming, grimy palace falling into gentle ruin. Once a fluttering,... Read more -
White cube spaces open doors for new talent in Delhi
The New Indian Express 28 September 2020 “We started the VAG FRESH initiative during lockdown as this was more important than ever to support emerging artists. We... Read more -
DELHI’S NATURE MORTE AND VADEHRA ART GALLERY JOINED HANDS FOR AN AMBITIOUS VIRTUAL SHOW
By Vasturi Barua | Verve Magazine 24 September 2020 In a similar vein, one encounters a rather Dali-esque rendition of the modernist spatio-temporal distortion in Ranbir Kaleka’s Quixotic Corridor... Read more -
Art is an expression of the unconscious mind: Rameshwar Broota on relevance of ‘Man Series’ during pandemic
By Akrita Reyar | Times Now News 10 September 2020 Renowned painter Rameshwar Broota is one of the leading artists of the country whose works are part of esteemed collections... Read more
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8 ongoing art initiatives that promise to give you your culture fix for the season
BY Praachi Raniwala | Vogue India 2 September 2020 The New Delhi-based gallery has moved online with digital presentations to support young artists , with part proceeds from the... Read more -
Rameshwar Broota's unsettling visions of paranoias and vulnerabilities in our moment of reckoningRameshwar Broota's unsettling visions of paranoias and vulnerabilities in our moment of reckoning
By Ankush Arora | FirstPost 26 July 2020 When Kiran Nadar made one of her first purchases as an art collector in 1998, her husband Shiv, in her... Read more -
Rameshwar Broota's unsettling visions of paranoias and vulnerabilities in our moment of reckoning
By Ankush Arora | First Post 26 July 2020 When Kiran Nadar made one of her first purchases as an art collector in 1998, her husband Shiv, in her... Read more -
Explorer of Peripheries - Praneet Soi
IANS | Outlook 13 July 2020 While he has always been intrigued by the media gaze towards different events, he feels that it is imperative for... Read more
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Detailing life’s scale: Jagannath Panda
National Herald 7 July 2020 Spontaneity, he says pays tribute to the unknown aspect of art, facilitating the magic we yearn for in our lives.... Read more -
Anju Dodiya’s worlds lie between the real and fantastic
By Pooja Savansukha | The Hindu 28 June 2020 In her ongoing exhibition, Breathing on Mirrors , Anju Dodiya turns to German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke’s articulations of anxiety,... Read more -
Subtle incisiveness of Ranbir Kaleka’s works puts everyday events into perspective
By Dilpreet Bhullar | Stir World 18 June 2020 Watching a story unfold in front of the eyes when narrated with the finesse of a raconteur is akin to... Read more -
Anju Dodiya: ‘The creative process is a violent one’
By Benita Fernando | The Indian Express 19 May 2020 Mumbai-based Anju Dodiya is among India’s best-known contemporary artists and a two-time nominee for the Sotheby’s Prize for contemporary art.... Read more
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Lahore Biennale 02
ArtForum 1 May 2020 For an Indian, like me, the biennial was a place of ambiguity, of familiarity mixed with otherness. In Vivan Sundaram’s... Read more -
Ravinder Reddy: The Man with the Heads
By V Sobha | Open Magazine 14 April 2020 Ravinder Reddy is working on his biggest sculpture yet: a 24-foot head that is being assembled in a shed built... Read more -
New exhibition showcases collection of Husain's line drawings
The Week 4 April 2020 Over 20 line drawings by modernist painter Maqbool Fida Husain, believed to be created around the time he left India... Read more -
Art that clicks: A look at some of the best Indian online exhibitions and virtual reality shows
By Jaideep Sen | Indulge Express 2 April 2020 3D show: Seer — Seen Vadehra Contemporary Art Gallery, New Delhi is hosting an immersive 3D exhibition online of Sujith... Read more
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‘Art makes people more hopeful’
By Rewati Rau | India Today 2 April 2020 What are these works about? Landscape is a crucial element in most of my paintings. They follow the same trajectory... Read more -
Sujith SN: Seer Strokes
By Rosalyn D’Mello | Open Magazine 27 March 2020 THE TEXTUAL PRELUDE to Sujith SN’s solo Seer-Seen at Vadehra Art Gallery involves a brief but dense excerpt from an... Read more -
Walking through Nalini Malani’s works on Instagram
By Zahra Amiruddin | The Hindu 27 March 2020 Behind doors that can now be witnessed virtually; the resounding voices on the streets, from the (now disbanded, owing to... Read more -
Taming the art of watercolour
By Ornella D’Souza | The New Indian Express 15 March 2020 Many artists find painting in watercolour quite nightmarish, given that it has a mind of its own, magnifies every wrong... Read more
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16 shows you need to visit this summer for the best of South Asian art
By Rahul Kumar | Vogue India 12 March 2020 Seer-Seen by Sujith SN The show comprises a series of landscapes engulfed by the temporary feeling of loitering with a... Read more -
Vizag sculptor's voluptuous women inspire Rohit Bal's fashion line
By Reshmi Chakarvorty | Deccan Chronicle 10 March 2020 Vizag-based sculptor G. Ravinder Reddy is known for his giant heads and voluptuous sculptures that celebrate women. Often portrayed with... Read more -
Balkrishna Doshi's "Architecture For The People" Retrospective To Open At Architekturzentrum Wien
World Architecture 5 March 2020 Balkrishna Doshi's 'Architecture for the People' retrospective is set to open at Architekturzentrum Wien on March 26 and will be... Read more -
The way art is taught is dull, boring and monotonous: Ravinder Reddy
By Atul Mittal | Business Standard 29 February 2020 He is on a high, but quietly so. Sculptor Ravinder Reddy has displayed at some of the choicest venues in... Read more
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‘Freedoms are not given, you have to snatch them’
By Vandana Kalra | The Indian Express 26 February 2020 Known to engage with the sociopolitical environment and art history in his works, artist Atul Dodiya turns to the western... Read more -
The shape of dissent
By Sneha Bhura | The Week 22 February 2020 In Gigi Scaria's sculpture for Vadehra Art Gallery, titled 'Camp', the motif of aggregation is transposed from humans to a... Read more -
‘At Home in the World’: A new book on the artist Gulammohammed Sheikh
By Gayatri Sinha | The Hindu 22 February 2020 For over 50 years, no other artist has possibly been as influential as thinker and pedagogue, and as complex in... Read more -
If you’re in Goa, don’t miss this ongoing exhibition that explores the mysteries of chance
By Ritupriya Basi | Architectural Digest India 8 February 2020 When mapping the trajectory of human history, the roots of every seminal twist of fate can be traced back to... Read more
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Atul Dodiya: Shades of Memoirist
By Rosalyn D'Mello | Open Magazine 7 February 2020 HAVING ENTERED VADEHRA Art Gallery to view Atul Dodiya’s ongoing exhibition, one infers, through Ranjit Hoskote’s wall text, that we... Read more -
The feminine revered
By Rewati Rau | India Today 6 February 2020 It was in 1989 when Ravinder Reddy’s nude sculpture was placed for viewing at a railway station. It was one... Read more -
Indian Artist G Ravinder Reddy’s Groundbreaking Sculptures Of Women Shatter Western Ideals Of Beauty
By Ann Binlot | Forbes 31 January 2020 They’re big, bold, beautiful—and brilliant. For over four decades G Ravinder Reddy’s curvy sculptures of the female form have been... Read more -
The Dodiya effect
By Sanjukta Sharma | Mint Lounge 31 January 2020 Ask any parent what their children are like, and usually their eyes will light up. They won’t stop talking, gushing... Read more
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Delhi: Everything you need to see and experience at the India Art Fair
By Uma Nair | Architectural Digest India 30 January 2020 Vadehra Art Gallery Vadehra Art Gallery brings a slew of works that give insights into millennial movements. Sachin George, the... Read more -
Mesmerising mystical art of Manjit Bawa
By Girish Shrivastava | National Herald 29 January 2020 A modernist master of the figurative genre, Manjit Bawa’s unique treasure of contemporary art mesmerises the viewers. The portrayal of... Read more -
Ruth Asawa: A Line Can Go Anywhere; Benode Behari Mukherjee: After Sight – review
By Laura Cumming | The Guardian 19 January 2020 It hardly seems possible that there could be a major 20th-century artist still ripe for rediscovery, but so it seems... Read more -
David Zwirner exhibits works by Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee
Art Daily 15 January 2020 David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of work by Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904–1980) at the gallery’s London location.... Read more
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Sudhir Patwardhan's tireless documenting of Mumbai's people and places
By Ranjita Ganesan | Business Standard 11 January 2020 In Sudhir Patwardhan’s Paying the Bill (2005), a woman stands stoically at the counter of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board... Read more -
Art alert: Check out an exhibition of work by Nalini Malani at the Bhau Daji Lad
By Natasha Rego | The HIndustan Times 10 January 2020 Art, heritage, violence and beauty come together in an exhibition of 10 works by experimental artist Nalini Malani at the... Read more -
Benode Behari Mukherjee: After Sight
David Zwirner 10 January 2020 David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904–1980) at the gallery’s... Read more -
Exhibition in London to focus on works by Indian modernist Benode Behari Mukherjee
The Week 6 January 2020 Indian artist Benode Behari Mukherjee's collages from the late 1950s and 1960s created following his loss of sight will be... Read more
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Exhibition in London to focus on works by Indian modernist Benode Behari Mukherjee
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Grey is the Colour of Ash
By Navtej Sharma | The Indian Express 5 January 2020 November 1984 will remain one of the darkest chapters in the history of free India. More than 3,000 innocent Sikhs... Read more -
Benode Behari: colour in the darkness
By Soumitra Das | Telegraph India 2 January 2020 Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904-1980), in his fictionalized memoir, Chitrakar , published in February 1979, described how he became blind as... Read more -
The Art of Resistance: Sudhir Patwardhan’s ‘Street Play’ reflects the diversity of defiant voices
By Nancy Adajania | Scroll 1 January 2020 Sudhir Patwardhan’s 1981 painting Street Play is a tour de force of political art. Made in the run-up to the... Read more
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The Art of Resistance: Gulammohammed Sheikh’s ‘Speechless City’ is about refusing to look away
By DIva Gujral | Scroll 1 January 2020 The scene is eerily still. A city stands, ghostlike, emptied, sprawled across a square canvas; in the foreground sickly green... Read more -
The Art of Resistance: Kashmir and erasure in ‘Untitled’ by Praneet Soi
By Zehra Jumabhoy | The Scroll 1 January 2020 Praneet Soi has been visiting Srinagar since 2009 and engaging with artisans there. This work – presented at his 2019... Read more -
Retrospective | 'Arpita Singh: Six decades of Painting' at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art 30 December 2019 Arpita Singh (b. 1937, Kolkata) is one of the most significant women artists in India. This retrospective exhibition at KNMA... Read more -
The city and its crowded soul
By Deepanjana Pal | Hindustan Times 28 December 2019 Considering how the people and architecture of Mumbai and Thane have inspired artist Sudhir Patwardhan for decades, it is fitting... Read more
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Spirit that conquers
By Uma Nair | The Hindu 26 December 2019 The year unveiled as a matrix of design innovation, creative vitality and contemporary explorations. Four artists stood apart for the... Read more -
Memories as muse
By S. Ravi | The Hindu 19 December 2019 Drawing from her life, Pranati Panda’s ongoing solo exhibition “Speaking Threads” exudes vibrancy It is not just the number of... Read more -
Notes from a beautiful mind
By Ornella D'Souza | The Indian Express 16 December 2019 Fat woolly worms made from plastic pistils and fabric swatches. Thickets of venous networks connected to serpentine threads. Upon this... Read more -
Painting Time
By Avantika Bhuyan | Mint 15 December 2019 There is a dreamlike quality to the works on display at Gallery Threshold in Delhi—mythical beings emerge from swirling oceans,... Read more
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'Red is the colour of passion'
By Rawati Rau | India Today 12 December 2019 Artist Pranati Panda makes her debut into the art world with her first solo show at Vadehra Art Gallery titled... Read more -
Intertwined Tales
By Sakshi Sharma | The Pioneer 7 December 2019 Artist Pranati Panda’s exhibition Speaking Threads explores landscapes and human organs in sculpture, prints and paintings. By Sakshi Sharma Threads,... Read more -
“Speaking Threads”, an exploration of self-hood as a site of art and life practice by Pranati Panda
By Rameesh | OpenArt 7 December 2019 Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to announce Pranati Panda’s much-awaited first solo show titled Speaking Threads, an exploration of self-hood... Read more -
Mumbai: Sudhir Patwardhan’s NGMA retrospective celebrates 45 years of his love affair with the Maximum City
By Shaikh Ayaz | Architectural Digest India 5 December 2019 On the way to meet artist Sudhir Patwardhan, you encounter all the familiar motifs associated with his art. From Mumbai's... Read more
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Through the eyes of a painter
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‘The rise in the price of art doesn’t reflect its quality’
By Anushree Majumdar | The Indian Express 6 November 2019 Stepping inside the gallery at Mumbai’s Max Mueller Bhavan to see Nalini Malani’s first solo in recent years, ‘Can You... Read more -
White World
By Uma Nair | Daily Pioneer 29 October 2019 Sachin’s metamorphosis Sachin’s works at Art Motif belong to his series Sites of Metamorphosis , which were earlier seen at... Read more -
Muralist Ramachandran returns to his roots
By Anna Mathews | The Hindu 10 October 2019 Have you seen a lotus pond in various moods? It is unlikely you would have appreciated the beauty of a... Read more
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