India is so colourful but our streets don't portray the real image. Also, our walls are covered with political posters and advertisements. We want to change this look," says Giulia Ambrogi, the ...

It's a show of Kalighat paintings, a little-known genre of 19th-century Indian street art, which flourished for a half-century in Calcutta (now Kolkata), then the capital of the British Raj in the ...

From the street art that adorns the walls to the beautiful canvases that hang in museums, ... Here we list 6 most beautiful paintings by Indian artists. 2 / 7 ‘Self-Portrait’ by Amrita Sher-Gil.

St+art, the Delhi-based not-for-profit street art organisation, joined forces with prison authorities to daub lines from a poem onto its boundary walls, creating India’s longest mural – a 968 ...

In India, street art and graffiti take on a very different cultural meaning. ... K-9, an artist manager from the area, is vocal about his dislike for artists from other ’hoods painting in Dharavi.

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art.

London-based street artist Banksy similarly sold a painting at a Sotheby’s auction for £1 million. As soon as the bid was accepted and the hammer came down, the artwork slipped out of its frame ...

Maqbool Fida Husain, dubbed the “Picasso of India”, was one of South Asia’s most renowned artists but no stranger to controversy, repeatedly accused of obscenity by Hindu groups for painting ...

An explosion of international demand in the past 25 years has made all aspects of Indian Modernist painter Tyeb Mehta a hot ...

In traditional Indian art, there’s a word to describe that visceral mood or emotion the work is meant to provoke within its audience: bhava. Up until the 1690s, paintings of people in this ...