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

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 ...

Raja Ravi Varma, Jamini Roy, S. H. Raza — there are many giants among India’s modernists, but F. N. Souza stands alone — ...

There’s Kartikeya, the god of war, depicted as a British-style dandy astride a peacock, sporting English buckled shoes and a modish, Prince Albert haircut. There’s the blue-skinned Krishna, lovingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...