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 …
Not sure that a disclaimer as such is really needed, just because I’m privileged to count a talented woman like Neena Nehru as a friend, but anyway here goes – the exhibition I’m going to review now is that of a friend, who also happens to be both an accomplished artist and …
I always knew that my friend Karam Puri was a talented and, most importantly, a very technically gifted photographer. That was clear from the way he kindly and patiently taught me how to take photos in Ladakh’s challenging evening light, but it was not until seeing his beautiful photographs in …
For anyone lucky enough to be on holiday in Shanghai (as we are) or to live here, then the Monet exhibition at K11 should be on your absolutely, Not To Be Missed, Must Do list. The selection of paintings gives a very logical and comprehensive overview of the work not …
