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Capturing Gandhi What: A rare and intimate archive of photographs of one of history’s most public figures – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi — captured by Kanu Gandhi, can be viewed online. Born in 1917, Kanu, the Mahatma’s grandnephew, spent his formative years at Sabarmati Ashram. In the mid-1930s, he joined the Mahatma’s personal staff in Sevagram […]

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Figurative abstraction What: A new group of works on paper has been created by the artist Dhruvi Acharya during the lockdown titled ‘Evaporating Voices’. Confined within our homes, unable to socialise for a period of three months has been a startling experience for most people. The vocabulary of Acharya’s paintings and watercolours has been developing consistently […]

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Kids’ film fest  What: With a host of national and international films, The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in collaboration with Children’s Film Academy has launched an online film festival for young adults and children. Called ‘Children’s Talkies’ the festival features absorbing cinema to entertain and educate children as well as promote family bonding and universal empathy […]

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Making manifestos What: Manifestos have often served as a means by which individuals and groups state intentions. Could manifestos play a role in how we envision the future and move forward at this moment? Titled ‘The Artists’ Way’ it’s a series of experimental workshops hosted virtually by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and led bypractising artists […]

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Ode to nature  What: With humans locked in their homes over the past few months, what ran free were nature’s brushstrokes — deepening the sky’s blue, the trees’ green and all colours in between. Capturing nature’s refreshed aura on the canvas, ten on-view abstract artistic impressions by Delhi-based artist Savya Jain derive inspiration from idyllic and […]

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Jogen is in town What: Tracing the artist’s career from the 1960s when he was a student in Paris, until 2005, Vadehra Art Gallery presents a travelling exhibition of forty select works by Jogen Chowdhury from the collection of the Glenbarra Art Museum, Himeji, Japan. This collection comes to New Delhi after being exhibited in Kolkata and more […]

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Canvassing flora  What: Two centuries ago, the British botanists began a visual study of Indian flora. Indian artists were commissioned to make botanical paintings which were sent back to Britain where it survives in collections at some of the Royal botanical gardens. Over the centuries, Indian flora has been cross-pollinated through trade from regions across the world. These […]

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Relic of a lost era What: Samira Rathod Design Atelier is a design practice since 2000 that delves in the space in-between art and architecture. In an exhibition titled ‘In Presence of Absence’ they take a look at the quiet town of Bhadran, a timeworn and weary hamlet on the outskirts of Baroda. They use […]