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Sheikh Mohammed announces Dubai’s new museum that will literally float on water

Dubai's new Museum of Art (DUMA), designed by Tadao Ando, merges modern architecture with cultural heritage.
Published on Oct 27, 2025 09:00 am IST

UK's National Gallery will use $500 million in donations for a new wing and expanded collection

UK's National Gallery will use $500 million in donations for a new wing and expanded collection
Published on Sept 09, 2025 04:37 pm IST

Art on his sleeve: As Krishen Khanna turns 100, an exclusive Wknd interview

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Updated on Jul 12, 2025 02:04 pm IST

This 1,000-year-old art style is the hottest trend in home decor today

India’s traditional art forms are inspiring modern creativity.
Updated on Jun 17, 2025 03:43 pm IST

Dhoomimal Art Centre shares how folk meets contemporary art

Shahid Parvez (left) and Tanushree Chakraborty (right) at Dhoomimal Art Centre, Delhi, during Mohit Jain's ongoing exhibition.
Published on Apr 17, 2025 05:31 pm IST

Home decor tips: 10 ways to integrate classical art into modern living spaces

Home decor, interior design tips: 10 ways to integrate classical art into modern living spaces
Published on Aug 14, 2024 07:50 pm IST

Madras art movement: DAG's exhibition highlights South Indian artistic heritage

"Madras Modern: Regionalism and Identity" showcases works by key artists, highlighting the movement's deep roots in local folklore, mythology, architecture, and history.
Published on Jun 08, 2024 04:48 pm IST

Late Libyan artist's house transformed into first modern art museum in Tripoli

A visitor walks at Bayt Ali Gana ("Ali Gana's House" in Arabic), in the Libyan capital Tripoli. A seemingly ordinary villa in the heart of Tripoli holds a lifetime of works by the late Libyan artist Ali Gana, whose family has turned his house into a unique museum which opened this year and seeks to offer both retrospection and hope in a country constantly threatened by violence and where arts and culture stand largely neglected.
Published on May 31, 2024 03:28 pm IST

10 quick pro interior design tips to seamlessly blend Zen gardens into your home

10 quick pro interior design tips to seamlessly blend Zen gardens into your modern home decor
Updated on May 09, 2024 03:31 pm IST

Käthe Kollwitz, a pioneering German artist, finally gets her due

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Portrait of Käthe Kollwitz
Published on Apr 23, 2024 08:00 am IST

Augmented reality exhibition kicks off in city

French illustrator, graphic, and motion designer Aurélien Jeanney is the curator of the exhibition
Updated on Nov 15, 2023 07:43 pm IST

Exhibition display modern art of South Asia through the lens of popular culture

Exhibition display modern art of South Asia through the lens of popular culture
Published on Feb 09, 2023 05:06 pm IST

How to create a budget-friendly art collection and support emerging artists

Supporting emerging artists is crucial for the growth and development of the art community.
Published on Feb 04, 2023 04:23 pm IST

Artistic alert: 10 types of modern drawing styles

Artistic alert: 10 types of modern drawing styles
Updated on Jan 05, 2023 01:20 pm IST

National Gallery of Modern Art holds week-long celebrations

International Museum Day 2022: National Gallery of Modern Art holds week-long celebrations 
Updated on May 18, 2022 08:35 am IST

Paris' temple of modern art, Pompidou Center, plans to open branch in New Jersey

Paris' temple of modern art, Pompidou Center, plans to open branch in New Jersey
Updated on Jun 06, 2021 06:27 pm IST

White glove result for AstaGuru’s Modern Indian art sale

The highest fetcher at the auction that had on offer an impressive compendium of 30 eminent artworks by leading modernists, was a 1971 work by master abstractionist V S Gaitonde. (Representational Image)
Published on Apr 02, 2021 05:28 pm IST

The Stendig Calendar comes to India

The specifications have remained unchanged for over 50 years: It is 4 ft across and 3 ft high, held together by a black binding strip, every month alternates between white and black backgrounds. You get to the next month by peeling away the top sheet.
Updated on Sept 10, 2020 08:55 pm IST

Painting found in Italian museum wall is stolen Gustav Klimt

The painting went missing in February 1997 while the museum was closed for work.
Updated on Jan 18, 2020 01:56 pm IST

The city and its crowded soul

Sudhir Patwardhan’s Accident of May Day
Updated on Dec 28, 2019 11:15 pm IST

Artworks of Sudhir Patwardhan, Reena Kallat on display in Mumbai

For five decades, Sudhir Patwardhan has captured city life, its everyday tensions, and the burden of surviving the metropolis they help operate. Accident on May Day is a work from the ’80s, which depicts a crowded train at a busy station, passengers and passersby carrying on, as an injured man is carried away on a stretcher.
Updated on Nov 28, 2019 01:15 pm IST

New York’s Museum of Modern Art set to reopen, bigger and better

Space was expanded by a third this time and director Glenn Lowry says the layout has been reinvented to reflect the philosophy of the museum’s first director, Alfred Barr.
Updated on Oct 12, 2019 06:54 am IST

Centre looks to overhaul museums, several renovated structures will be open to public

The project also includes an installation of avant-garde art [experimental, non-traditional art]at Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata, renovations of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi and its branches in Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Updated on Sept 29, 2019 12:04 am IST

In Sudarshan Shetty’s show, a new life for vintage objects

In the exhibition, Shetty uses objects that are not only discards, but also types of models that are no longer sold. By rendering them into wooden sculptures, he makes them of even lesser use than they’ve already been deemed by their once-ownersMumbai.
Published on Sept 28, 2019 06:09 pm IST

Maharashtra government gives 30-year lease extension for National Gallery of Modern Art plot

Artist Prabhakar Pachpute at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Fort, Mumbai in April 2016.
Updated on Jul 17, 2019 08:21 am IST

NGMA exhibits results of summer art programme titled Naimisa

NGMA exhibits results of summer art programme titled Naimisa.
Updated on Jul 09, 2019 01:24 pm IST

Palekar snub paints NGMA in disappointing colours

Actor Amol Palekar at a press conference in Pune following the NGMA snub.
Updated on Feb 14, 2019 10:10 pm IST

Amol Palekar speech interrupted for government criticism, opposition says ‘achhe din’

At the opening of an exhibition in the memory of artist Prabhakar Barwe on Friday evening, Palekar was repeatedly interrupted during his speech by some NGMA members.
Updated on Feb 10, 2019 06:02 pm IST

Veteran actor-director Amol Palekar repeatedly interrupted during speech in Mumbai for criticising govt

A video available on social media showed Amol Palekar criticising the Ministry of Culture for reportedly scrapping the advisory committees at the gallery’s Mumbai and Bengaluru centres.
Updated on Feb 10, 2019 02:33 pm IST

1800 gifts, mementos received by PM Narendra Modi go under hammer in 2-day event

Around 130 people on Sunday registered for a two-day auction of around 1,800 gifts and mementos Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received.
Updated on Jan 28, 2019 08:15 am IST