Princely sitters. Public figures. Parsi families. Artists themselves. Everyday Maharashtrians. Join us next week during Mumbai Gallery Weekend at #DAGMumbai from 8-11 January 2026 for Face to Face: A Portrait of a City, a special showing of portraits that reflect Bombay’s evolving social fabric across two centuries.

On view until 31 January 2026

DAG, New Delhi

On view until 31 January 2026

DAG, New Delhi

We invite you to the opening of a project which in size and depth has never before been seen in India—Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920, an IAF Parallel exhibition on colonial ethnography. Discover northeastern Lepcha and Bhutia tribes to the Afridis of Sind in the northwest and the Todas of the Nilgiris in the south; and more. Join us on 30 January 2026 at Bikaner House, New Delhi.

Calcutta’s growth in the nineteenth century acted as a catalyst for the development of various artistic traditions, foremost of which was the watercolour pats and oil paintings that make up a significant part of the exhibition, The Babu & The Bazaar, currently showing in Kolkata in collaboration with the iconic Alipore Museum.

On the occasion of Amrita Sher-Gil’s birth anniversary, art historian and writer Yashodhara Dalmia joins us for an in-depth engagement with the life and work of Sher-Gil, recognised as a National Treasure Artist, and to reflect on her enduring impact on the development of modern art in India.

As we look back at the at the fifth edition of The City as a Museum in Kolkata, we can’t help but marvel at the many layers of the city that unfolded over the course of the festival across eight key sites, including Patuapara in Kalighat, Sealdah Station, Metro Cinema, Victoria Memorial and more.

Neither courtly nor modern, these Company Paintings function as records of a changing world—its people, professions, landscapes, architecture, and customs. A Treasury of Life, on view at Aguad Port & Jail Complex in collaboration with the Government of Goa, asks us to look again at a genre long ignored.

What’s powering India’s artscape? The Economic Times reports a booming, mature art market with an expanding ecosystem and new opportunities for artists and collectors alike on the rise.

Drawing on sustained scholarly research, an illustrated lecture by art historian R. Siva Kumar examines the ideas, influences, and narrative strategies that shaped Abanindranath Tagore’s artistic vision—a critical insight into the intellectual and cultural contexts that informed Tagore’s work and its lasting significance in Indian art history.

Last two days to explore how intimacy, dialogue and mutual regard shaped the practices of artist couples whose creative paths unfolded side by side—distinct in expression yet intertwined in life, sustained by shared ecosystems and choices of partnership. On view at #DAGMumbai until 3 January 2026.

With contributory essays by Yashodhara Dalmia on F. N. Souza, and Gregory Salter and Valerie Murray-Chandra on Avinash Chandra, Contours of Identity investigates the artistic practice of the two émigré artists in 1950s-60s London. While markedly different in style, both are notable for their bold explorations of sexuality while revealing complex negotiations with their cultural identities in Western contexts.

Bishamber Khanna, an active member of the Delhi Silpi Chakra, was the only artist in India to practice and master the technique of enamelling, a technique used mainly to embellish jewellery. He worked primarily with the sifting and stencil method as well as raising and collaging, brazing and welding of metal shapes.

Reserve your spot for an authoritative account of the historical origins, ideological foundations, and enduring values embedded in Jana Gana Mana and Vande Mataram, by scholar and historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee.

The transformation of the iconic blue-yellow Kolkata bus into a travelling installation during the fifth edition of The City as a Museum reframed the city’s iconic landmarks by animating lesser-known histories and satirising everyday experiences, through a multi-channel video installation by Pavel Paul, and drawings and posters by Sumantra Mukherjee, notes The Times of India.

The launch edition of Classroom Corner welcomes learners and students to engage with the Constitution of India and the nuances of democratic ideals through R K Laxman’s political cartoons, political caricatures by Chittaprosad and more.

Trained at the J.J. School of Art, P. N. Mago grounded his early practice in close observation of the everyday lives of working people. Informed by his own experience of the Partition and migration, works such as Untitled (Catching Fish) register themes of survival and resilience within a society undergoing profound change.

With Goa emerging as an exciting art hub thanks to to the recently concluded Serendipity Arts Festival, DAG’s A Treasury of Life stands out as a rare, sustained engagement with art history. Drawing over 300 visitors daily at Aguad Port & Jail Complex, the exhibition adds depth and continuity to Goa’s evolving art scene.