Vikrant Bhise, "Quest of Existence of Being" (2023), acrylic on canvas, 72 x 120 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Anant Art Gallery) NOIDA, India — A pyramidal arrangement of one hundred ...

Attributed to an artist from the generation (ca. 1725–ca. 1785) after Manaku and Nainsukh; “Krishna and His Family Admire a Solar Eclipse, canto 10.82,” from a Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Tales of the ...

Indian miniature painting represents a diverse landscape of styles, themes, and subject matter, illuminating the rich and varied tastes of royal courts from across the Indian subcontinent. Made by ...

India, July 5 -- A nation carrying centuries of cultural history often struggles to figure out exactly how to handle it. Do ...

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 ...

The cave paintings are located in the Aravalli mountain range in northwestern India. Tushar Dayal via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Archaeologists say cave paintings found in northwestern India’s Aravalli ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Art has the most beautiful way of finding its people. Not always in galleries or art schools, but sometimes in the middle of ...