The latest exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Art is a feast for the eyes and imagination. “Epic Tales from Ancient India” features more than 90 works from the museum’s renowned Binney Collection, ...

The rise isn’t sudden. It reflects decades of artistic innovation, institutional validation, and global recognition of Indian modernism’s depth. Here are five Indian artists whose paintings now ...

Pattachitra is a traditional painting style from Odisha and West Bengal. The word “patta” means cloth, and “chitra” means picture. These paintings are made on cloth prepared with natural materials.The ...

Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, company officials ...

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 ...

Lawh Wa Qalam opened late last year in a nearly 32,300-square-foot deep-blue, geometric building.

A long-forgotten painting by Amrita Sher-Gil, one of India’s most important modern artists, is going under the hammer for the first time. The rediscovered portrait is expected to fetch up to $2.8 ...

“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 ...

This month’s Smithsonian podcasts include a deep dive into India’s monsoon weather patterns and discussion of animals in flight Chris Klimek In “Monsoon Mood,” the latest episode of the Smithsonian ...

I HAVE heard it said that modern Indian art is neither modern nor Indian. That, of course, is an exaggeration, and yet it causes one to pause momentarily and cast a backward glance over the centuries.

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 ...