This review is aimed specifically at readers already in Bangkok, or who are going to be there before 3 December. Please go and see the excellent exhibition “Hermès in the making” at Iconsiam, up on the 8th floor. Trust me! The exhibition offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into one of …
There is a small but very interesting exhibition at the Delhi Art Gallery called “Delhi Durbar: Empire, display and the possession of history” and I would urge all my fellow citizens to go and see it. These days, when the very word “colonialism” is a heinous insult in the minds …
I’ll cut to the chase – fellow Dilliwalas go, go, go to this fascinating exhibition! Trust me, please, and just go. It is one of the most restful, relaxed and intriguing exhibitions I’ve ever been to, though, yes, technically Van Gogh 360 is not an “exhibition” in the formal sense …
3 years ago in January 2020, when we last strolled round the India Art Fair, who knew what was looming on the horizon? I just reread my 3 year-old blog post, and it all sounds so carefree. So damned carefree. 3 years later, we headed back to the same venue, …
It’s been almost 5 1/2 years since my last visit to the Crafts Museum in Delhi, at which point I vowed to go there more regularly. So that didn’t exactly go according to plan now, did it? Anyway, I girded up my loins today, battled truly vile traffic jams, and …
The annual art jamboree that is the India Art Fair opened today here in Delhi, on a gorgeous, sunny day. We got there by about 3.30pm, a couple of hours after it had opened, and ended up walking the last stretch, since the traffic was its usual bonkers self. The …
Delhi readers, take note! If you haven’t already seen this astounding exhibition at the National Museum, you only have until May 5th to do so. Trust me, it is so fabulous that you will not regret it. I had seen the jewels when they were last exhibited at the Museum …
In Mumbai last week, I went to the marvellous exhibition “India and the world: A history in nine stories” which is on at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya – or, as it says on their own website “(Formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India)”. Although the exhibition will travel …
Let me be completely upfront with you. This review is going to be nothing but breathless prose, incoherent, uncritical admiration and lots of photos of THE most fabulous exhibition imaginable. Yes, indeed, my reviewing colours nailed well & truly to the mast. If you haven’t already seen the breathtaking retrospective …
