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Painting the idea of India: Revisiting Nandalal Bose’s nation-making art

Painting the idea of India: Revisiting Nandalal Bose’s nation-making art
Published on Mar 08, 2026 05:06 am IST

Painter, architect, fighter: A Satish Gujral exhibition

From the centennial exhibition on renowned artist Satish Gujral at the National Gallery of Modern Art. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
Published on Jan 17, 2026 04:24 am IST

Artist Nikas Safronov’s works are driven by silence rather than spectacle

Known as a ‘People’s Artist of the Russian Federation’ and arguably the most recognisable face of contemporary Russian art, Nikas Safronov has built a career on pairing classical painterly discipline with symbolic, often dream-like imagery.
Updated on Dec 30, 2025 06:19 am IST

Weekend events you can’t miss in Bengaluru (Dec 19-21)

Manav Kaul brings a gentle story of life and its longings. (HT file photo)
Updated on Dec 18, 2025 12:19 pm IST

Weekend events you can’t miss in Mumbai (Nov 21-23)

Prithvi Theatre, Juhu Aarambh Mumbai’s dramedy comes right in time for the wedding season. (Incredible India website)
Updated on Nov 21, 2025 09:50 am IST

Echoes of a Master: As Krishen Khanna turns 100, artists describe his impact

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The Black Truck (1974) by Krishen Khanna. (Image courtesy Saffronart)
Updated on Jul 12, 2025 02:05 pm IST

Caravaggio's 'Magdalene in Ecstasy' is an experience to behold, say visitors to art gallery

Caravaggio's 'Magdalene in Ecstasy' is an experience to behold, say visitors to art gallery
Updated on Oct 06, 2025 11:42 pm IST

Delhiwale: Painting a painter’s Dilli

Clockwise from left: Bhomik, Tahoora, Shaibar, Aliza, Deeksha, Monika, Aqs, Muzammil, Varun, Belal, Saurav, Vikas, Raqib, and their assistant professor, Surangini Sharma. (HT)
Published on Apr 25, 2025 05:44 am IST

Just like that: Exploring the artistic world of Jatin Das and his legacy

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The Sahitya Akademi was publishing a book of poems on the Pankha, compiled by Jatin, and he wanted me to contribute a poem within the next hour. (HT photo)
Published on Apr 06, 2025 11:25 am IST

Exhibition revives forgotten elegance and identity of French banknotes

Exhibition revives forgotten elegance and identity of French banknotes
Published on Mar 30, 2025 07:36 am IST

HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on 29 March 2025

Catch it Live on Saturday, 29 March 2025.
Published on Mar 28, 2025 08:30 pm IST

HT City Delhi Junction: Catch It Live on February 4

Catch it live on February 4
Updated on Feb 04, 2024 04:00 am IST

Libya's National Theatre Festival returns, bridging divides through art

Libya's National Theatre Festival returns, bridging divides through art
Published on Dec 26, 2023 06:03 pm IST

G20 Summit: 'Chaat', 'tadka dal' on lunch menu for spouses of world leaders

G20 Summit: Wife of UK PM Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murthy, (second from left) and other family members of the world leaders spotted at Delhi's Pusa campus on Saturday.
Published on Sept 09, 2023 05:59 pm IST

Itinerary for G20 spouses: Lunch at Delhi’s NGMA, millets exhibit at Pusa

The NGMA, located on Shershah Road, is currently closed for beautification for the visit. (HT ARCHIVE)
Updated on Sept 05, 2023 02:19 am IST

Dali's ashtray in Mumbai

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Ashtray designed by Salvador Dali at the NGMA, Mumbai
Published on Jun 19, 2023 09:17 pm IST

The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

Mumbai’s National Gallery of Modern Art and the Ministry of Culture are exhibiting Air India’s legendary art collection.
Updated on Jul 20, 2023 11:09 am 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

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

Amol Palekar says it was a good thing that he was interrupted during his speech at NGMA

Amol Palekar said that it was his responsibility as an artiste to raise his voice against the “autocratic and undemocratic modus operandi” of the government.
Published on Nov 26, 2019 06:22 pm 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

E-auction of PM Modi’s gifts: Photo stand, silver Kalash fetch Rs 1 crore each

The auction is being held on an online portal designed by National Informatics Centre and is open to all.
Published on Sept 18, 2019 06:56 am IST

On auction, PM Narendra Modi’s portrait on silk at Rs 2.5 lakh and 2771 other gifts

PM Narendra Modi’s gifts are currently on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in central Delhi’s Jaipur House.
Updated on Sept 14, 2019 12:18 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

Flowers, snails and everything nice: 50 years of A Ramachandran’s art

One of artworks on display at the NGMA is Girl on the Swing from 2017, which features a signature self-portrait of the artist, A Ramachandran, as a snail.
Updated on Apr 27, 2019 06:31 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