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what can be better than taking a walk to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and enjoying the warmth of Indian Skies? This exhibition of Indian court art is from the collection of British artist Howard Hodgkin

Artist Jeena Raghavan had her first solo show in New York and displayed her new works which are suffused with her East-West experiences.

Amar Nath Sehgal Private Collection is one of only two single artists museums in India and is a tribute to the master modernist

Home and exile are two of the most evocative words in the English language, and they are seared into the work of Zarina Hashmi, noted printmaker and sculptor, who was born in Aligarh in India. Zarina, who goes by only her first name, has been a nomad, a transient who has taken many journeys, crossed many borders. The floor plans of past homes, the many stories of dislocation and the sweet lost language of Urdu are embedded in her prints.

Having worked in relative anonymity for 35 years from her small loft in Manhattan, NY, Zarina, 75, is now suddenly on the international art world’s radar. The prestigious Guggenheim Museum is showcasing “Zarina: Paper Like Skin”, the first retrospective ever of an Indian woman artist, featuring 60 works dating from 1961 to the present.

South Asian contemporary and modern art is highlighted at the Christie’s auction during Asia Week in New York

Asia Week comes to New York and some reporters take a walk to 17 galleries to check out some of the art from Asia.

Asia Week New York 2023 Predicts a Colorful Spring The Flowering of Asian Art in New York  Photos: Lavina…

Benjamin, the noted Indian-Jewish artist, left Bombay, now Mumbai, decades ago for America but the colors and ethos of India have become embedded into her art and her American life. Her unique works which are populated with blue figures reminiscent of the color of Krishna, the sky and water have been embraced by art collectors in America, Israel and India.

Imagine meeting your saree-clad ancestor in Central Park! And not only is she 18 feet tall but has a cluster of heads in her hand! She it the Ancestor by British artist Bharti Kher, a reimagination of the universal mother.

She was born in Mysore, Southern India in undivided India. She grew up in pre-Independent India but died in New York, an American citizen. Y.G. Srimati is one of India’s forgotten artists and a Renaissance Woman.

Women photojournalists highlighted at the Newswomen’s Club of New York Spring Photography Show and Auction.

For art lovers, Asia Week is a great space to learn more about Asian art and understand the complexities of the art world from museums to art galleries and auction houses.

Here we share the wrappers of those lost, long-gone Diwalis when every kid with a handful of fire-crackers was king – yes, power was setting the match to that bichu or anar firecracker!

While the ongoing pandemic has uprooted the regular lives of so many, three artists in New Jersey showed how painting an imagined world has actually offered ways to cope and make connections in a socially distanced life.

By binding the past and the present, Birendra Pani’s gorgeous art creates a new way of thinking for the visitors to the gallery: He says: “Relooking and revisiting our local culture and re-establishing  a new relationship with the positive aspects of our tradition will sustain us in a situation of loss in a disoriented and homogenizing world.”

Lassi with Lavina reaches 100.5 k monthly visitors on Pinterest with evocative images from Indian art, Bollywood, celebrities, food & travel for the India lover

Indian art is playing a big role at Asia Art Week with antiquities and contemporary South Asian art highlighted in auctions and exhibits.

Creating a space for voices which are seldom heard has been the passion for Myna Mukherjee, director of Engendered, a New York-based human rights organization which recently held the first ever South Asian Queer Leaders Summit in New York. You heard some strong, individual voices including those of Sunil Pant, Nepal’s first openly gay parliamentarian who worked to get same sex marriage rights for the community there

he casual browser of Indian art may not know this but Indian modern art has a definite French and strong connection. It’s hard to believe but over a hundred Indian artists have called Paris home, studied at various French institutions and made their life far from the heat and dust of India.