In Atul Dodiya’s show, a new way to look at cinema through painting

‘Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni’s Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022’ is on at Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 12, 2023 · 09:23 am

A trove of ‘pornographic art’ is lying unappreciated in a sarkari library in Uttar Pradesh

Amid the Raza Library’s collection are paintings depicting a variety of carnal encounters that have never been reproduced in any book on Indian painting.

Kamayani Sharma

· Jan 17, 2023 · 11:30 am

How did a gurudwara in Dehradun become the richest treasure of murals in the entire region?

Through 500-odd paintings, Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib serves as a public index of political shifts, artistic currents and local history across 350 years.

Kamayani Sharma

· Nov 12, 2022 · 11:30 am

‘This is Not the Basilica’ explores how an iconic Goan monument became a victim of its own fame

Vishvesh Kandolkar’s installations focus on the Bom Jesu church, which holds the remains of St Francis Xavier.

R Benedito Ferrão

· Sep 26, 2021 · 11:30 am

In photos: Costume designer Bhanu Athaiya’s paintings and fashion illustrations are up for auction

Prinseps Auction House & Gallery will bang the gavel on December 2.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 30, 2020 · 10:30 am

A family affair: Few know about the artistic prowess of Raja Ravi Varma’s siblings

On Raksha Bandhan, a look at the contribution of C Raja Raja Varma and Mangalabai Thampuratty to Indian commercial art.

Simran Agarwal, Sahapedia

· Aug 03, 2020 · 07:30 am

An art collector remembers how his friend FN Souza changed his life forever

It has been my privilege for many years to look every morning at the art that once hung in the New York house of the great master.

A Collector

· Dec 02, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Rs 26 crore for the painting, Rs 0 for the painter. The Indian art world is riven by a deep divide

The record sale of Tyeb Mehta’s ‘Kali’ has again raised the question – shouldn’t Indian artists be paid royalty?

Georgina Maddox

· Jul 18, 2018 · 11:30 am

Krishna wasn’t pointing at Eid moon. He was pointing at a solar eclipse

[Article updated after publication] Paintings are being made today that deliberately adopt archaisms to appear as though they come from the past.

Kavita Singh

· Jun 20, 2018 · 07:30 am

Sakti Burman: The artist who’s the heir to the poets who composed Ramayana and Mahabharata

As a storyteller, Burman takes his place in a millennia-long genealogy of fabulists.

Ranjit Hoskote

· Nov 18, 2017 · 03:30 pm

Muse to maker: Who are the women that define Indian art?

A walk through the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi offers some answers.

Chanpreet Khurana

· Nov 14, 2017 · 11:30 am

Gond artist Jangarh Singh Shyam’s forest is full of creatures that were never meant to be seen

The artist who died in mysterious circumstances 16 years ago painted Gondi deities that had never been committed to paper.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Oct 16, 2017 · 11:36 am