For the complex legacy of M.F. Husain, one of 20th-century India’s most important artists, this year has been a tale of two auctions. In March, one of the late painter’s monumental depictions of rural ...

Discover famous art forms of India that beautifully reflect the country’s rich cultural heritage and artistic diversity.

Patna's Sewak Ram painted this watercolour of prayers at a Muharram festival, 1820 Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India Company gradually transformed into a colonial power.

FkWf The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international contemporary art exhibition which is organised every two years in Kochi, Kerala. The largest art festival in India features a diverse range of media ...

BENGALURU, (IANS) – While the history of Indian art stretches back to the ancient era, the first shift towards progression in India’s visual history was witnessed during the latter half of the 19th ...

There’s Kartikeya, the god of war, depicted as a British-style dandy astride a peacock, sporting English buckled shoes and a modish, Prince Albert haircut. There’s the blue-skinned Krishna, lovingly ...

In 2008, the National Museum of the American Indian mounted a retrospective of the work of the 20th-century Figurative artist Fritz Scholder. It titled the show “Indian/Not Indian,” referring to the ...

These days, Ghibli-style art is very popular on the internet. Because of this trend, many people in India now talk about their old painting styles. India has many different types of traditional art, ...

A global reappraisal is underway, especially for women artists whose contributions shaped entire aesthetics. "At Abu Dhabi ...

Reporting from MUMBAI, India — In the early 1980s, India’s national airline, Air India, commissioned a painting from artist Anjolie Ela Menon to add to a collection of contemporary Indian art that ...