In Sanskrit, the term marjara-nyaya refers to a method of devotion in which a devotee completely surrenders to the deity, much like a kitten surrenders to the mother's protective grasp (marjara is the ...

The Encyclopedia of Indian Art, arriving online next month, aims to be comprehensive and yet accessible to experts and students of all kinds. By Ginanne Brownell The history of art in India, going ...

Every year since I first had the pleasure of studying art history at university, I have longed for a sourcebook “detailing” art from India. I am sometimes quite annoyed with publications with “global” ...

From prehistoric Bhimbetka cave paintings to works by contemporary art stars like Atul Dodiya and Shilpa Gupta, India has a rich cultural heritage dating back over 10,000 years. So, it came as a ...

Flora Indica began with an astonishing discovery: More than 7,500 botanical drawings made by Indian artists were lying unnoticed in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

India’s long-awaited MAP Museum of Art and Photography, a major new cultural institution in the southern city of Bengaluru, welcomed its first visitors this month, offering a glimpse at a 60,000-item ...

Rare early 20th-century lithographs show how scientific art and colonial extraction combined to recreate India’s avifauna ...

Photography is a contemporary art discipline but it lifts and carries the profuse cultural heritage of India quite effortlessly. The commonality that it shares with art and architecture is how the ...

Explore India's cultural history through seating design at the House of Mahendra Doshi's exhibition, A History of India through Chairs.