As a blanket of snow and sleet melted into the grass and an early winter fog hung over the Delaware Valley last month, Rinal ...

MF Husain painting surfaces after 70 years and sells for historic $13.8m - The 1954 mural-sized painting nearly quadrupled ...

Patna's Sewak Ram painted this watercolour of prayers at a Muharram festival, 1820 Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India Company gradually transformed into a colonial power.

For the complex legacy of M.F. Husain, one of 20th-century India’s most important artists, this year has been a tale of two auctions. In March, one of the late painter’s monumental depictions of rural ...

Siona Benjamin was raised Jewish in India’s Hindu and Muslim society where she attended Catholic and Zoroastrian schools. A two-time Fulbright scholar, author and book illustrator, she now lives in ...

India’s most famous modernists, from Tyeb Mehta to V S Gaitonde, established new best prices this year, while Hussain’s 'Gram Yatra' became the first Indian painting to sell in excess of USD 10 ...

Three days after a court in India ordered the seizure of two paintings by late artist MF Husain over a complaint that they were “offensive,” the gallery displaying them strongly opposed the “unfounded ...

In 2008, the National Museum of the American Indian mounted a retrospective of the work of the 20th-century Figurative artist Fritz Scholder. It titled the show “Indian/Not Indian,” referring to the ...

Cave paintings are among the earliest expressions of human creativity. These ancient artworks provide insights into early life, beliefs, and environments. Found on rock walls and ceilings, they often ...

Founded in 1600 as a trading enterprise, the English East India Company gradually transformed into a colonial power. By the late 18th Century, as it tightened its grip on India, Company officials ...

A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings, c. 1790 to 1835, an ongoing show in the Indian capital put together by DAG, an art gallery in Delhi, features over 200 works that once lay on the margins ...