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Premier Art Journal of India

Art India is India's Premier Art Magazine: over the last 25
years, it has been responsible for the promotion of critical discourse around diverse art forms and disciplines which includes painting, sculptures, installation art, photography, new media art, performance art and architecture. As an important forum for discussing, interrogating and appreciating art practices, Art India has been respons

ible for giving a much needed platform to artists, critics, historians, cultural theorists, collectors to engage in a mutually replenishing intellectual conversation with each other.

22/07/2025

On the occasion of Himmat Shah’s birth anniversary, we honour the life and legacy of a singular force in Indian art. Sculptor, thinker, and eternal seeker - Himmatda built not just forms, but foundations for future generations of artists.

As veteran photographer Raghu Rai (.official) movingly recalls, he was a “strange man of strange mettle,” whose expansive eyes saw what others couldn’t - who dreamt of Gurukuls for creative minds, and who believed God could appear from the soil.

Today, we remember him not just through his formidable heads and totemic forms, but through his spirit of experimentation, his boundless curiosity, and his deep faith in the unseen.

18/07/2025

Art collector Dara K. Mehta reflects on a lifelong journey with art shaped by early visits to museums, his father’s collection, and a growing passion that turned into a commitment. What began with works by M.F. Husain and K.H. Ara has expanded to include Bengal masters like Somnath H**e, Ganesh Haloi, contemporary artists such an Ranjani Shettar and Himalayan antiquities.

In a comprehensive walkthrough of his personal collection, he says: “Without any premeditation, one perceives a connection between works across periods, mediums, and styles.”

In the ART India issue volume 27, issue 3.

On the cover:
AMRITA SHER-GIL
Untitled (Self-Portrait)
Watercolour on paper
8” × 6”
Circa 1920s

08/07/2025

In India to conduct a workshop for the Hampi Art Labs ceramics cohort, ceramicist Kate Malone, MBE() shares her reflections on India and clay,

In the latest issue of ART India: Volume 28, Issue 01

05/07/2025

The most celebrated Progressive, Krishen Khanna, turns 100 today. Art historian and patron Dr. Pheroza Godrej () chronicles the journey of her dear friend in the latest edition of ART India magazine.

We are pleased to announce — A landmark retrospective commemorating his centenary, Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive, co-curated by Dr. Zehra Jumabhoy () and Kajoli Khanna (), will open at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, (.mumbai) on November 10.

02/07/2025

‘Remembering’, on display at London’s Serpentine North Gallery () until 27 July 2025, marks artist Arpita Singh’s first institutional solo exhibition abroad. The show offers a comprehensive overview of her six-decade-long artistic journey, featuring over 160 works—140 of which have travelled from across India.

In a reflective piece, researcher and curator Manmeet K. Walia () describes the exhibition as “not nostalgic but evidential.”

Read more in the recent ART India, Volume 28 / Issue 01.

Images: Jo Underhill. Courtesy Arpita Singh and Serpentine.

30/06/2025

Chennai-based collector Jaiveer Johal (.johal) feels drawn to themes of displacement and identity that reflect his experiences as a q***r, non-Hindu minority. “I realised that, over time, one should collect works that resonate with one’s own era, especially in light of our current socio-political climate. The pieces I collect largely address themes of displacement and identity – issues I encounter regularly in my own life.”

Having lived in Tamil Nadu for 20 years, Johal speaks of displacement not just as a lived reality, but as a state of mind. “Displacement, for me, is both a personal mental state and an experience linked to the displacement of language. And it’s this intersection that resonates with me and is reflected in my collection.”

Read the full feature in ART India, Issue 28/01.

27/06/2025

: In a month which marked ‘World Environment Day’, we dip into our archives to celebrate the play of content and context that contemporary artists have searched for and found in the idea of the garden.

In the ART India edition from Vol 26, Issue 2, researcher and writer Pooja Savansukha () unpacks the garden – as idea, space and metaphor – in contemporary Indian art! She writes, “Driven less by a desire to capture their tranquillity or biodiversity, contemporary art practitioners characterise gardens as paradoxical sites that embody binaries like utopia and dystopia,
harmony and pandemonium, inclusion and marginalization.”

Swipe to see contradictory sites of desire and excess, otherness and phantasmagoria!

Cover Image: Khageshwar Rout, Annex & Dissever Code XVIII

25/06/2025

Caste politics is deeply entrenched in an act as simple as that of eating food, articulates Rajyashri Goody ().

Sohel Sarkar interviewed the artist for our latest ART India Volume 28, Issue 01

16/06/2025

Art & AI has always been a match in discussion. Artist and engineer Jayant Silva () writes on the contentious debate around Art and Artificial Intelligence.

Read in our latest issue 28/01. Subscribe now. Link in Bio.

01/06/2025

As we enter Pride Month, curator Mihir Thakkar () shines a spotlight on 10 young artists who are exploring and expressing aspects of q***r identity, concerns and experiences through their creative practice. Thakkar shares, “As a curator, and as a q***r person, my journey is rooted in q***r narratives and in artists whose work reflects the same. They are the ones I naturally gravitate toward. So we are looking at practices that are inherently q***r and, at the same time, artistically nuanced.”

30/05/2025

: In Vol 8, Issue 4 of ART India magazine, Jasmine Shah Varma () spoke to Praful Shah, one of the two largest collectors of Bhupen Khakhar’s art in India in 2003. Ahead of Pride Month, we look at the work of Bhupen Khakhar, who openly expressed his homosexuality through his artwork, making significant contributions to both the art world and LGBTQ+ visibility in India.

Shah’s interest in acquiring more of the Baroda-based artist’s paintings grew at the same time as his friendship with him progressed in the 90s. His collection is thus dominated by works made in the 90s, when the two started meeting regularly in Surat and started corresponding through letters. “We would talk in doubla language (colloquial Gujarati). We would tell each other stories about our hometowns. There was also a lot of teasing and leg-pulling.”

Khakhar’s post-1980 works, notably You Can’t Please All (1981), marked his public acknowledgment of his sexuality. His art, characterized by a fusion of the sacred and the sexual, explored themes of intimacy, vulnerability, and identity, drawing from Indian mythology and personal experience.

Despite criticism in India, Khakhar received international recognition, culminating in the Tate Modern’s () 2016 retrospective—its first solo exhibition of an Indian artist

27/05/2025

Three new art spaces have opened across the country.

In Delhi’s Okhla, artist Seema Kohli’s () newly minted studio also serves as a showcase for her work in an intimate setting. Originally a factory built in the 1980s–90s, the space has been brought to life by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof (.hoof) of Studio Sangath. Visitors can drop in with a prior appointment.

Opened this May, Lakeeren Contemporary () is a collaboration between Namita Saraf () and Arshiya Lokhandwala () at the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai. The inaugural show, Cosmic Frequencies: Consciousness and Quantum Cosmology in Art, challenges the very frameworks through which we understand reality. Intersecting art with science and metaphysics, the exhibition features works by Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Mithu Sen, N.S. Harsha, Parul Gupta, Remen Chopra Van Der Vaart, Shilpa Gupta, Thukral & Tagra, Waqas Khan, and others.

At 8, Cunningham Road in Bangalore, Farah Siddiqui’s Cultivate Art () has found a home. The art curator and consultant opened the space last week with a preview of Young Collector’s Weekend Global. The show brought together a mix of emerging and established contemporary artists from across India, including Harsha Durugadda, Sareena Khemka and Divya Pamnani.

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