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Inside the new MF Husain Museum in Qatar: How a 2008 sketch shaped its modern design

November 29, 2025 4:21 pm

Delhi-based architect Martand Khosla on how an MF Husain sketch forms the architectural core of the artist's museum in Doha and his association with Husain

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Museum dedicated to life, work and legacy of MF Husain opens to public

November 28, 2025 11:00 am

Lawh Wa Qalam Museum in Doha traces Husain’s footprints across continents

Covering an area of 3,000 square metres, the museum will trace Husain’s artistic journey from the 1950s until his death in 2011

How the MF Husain Museum in Qatar brings the artist’s sketch to life

October 02, 2025 11:06 am

Clad in deep blue, featuring abstract forms, and accompanied by a tall, white, minaret-like cylindrical tower, the sketch bears his signature, the date ‘30.VIII.008’, and the title ‘M.F. Husain Art and Cinema Museum’.

Museum dedicated to MF Husain to open in Qatar

October 02, 2025 3:05 am

The 3,000-square-metre institution by Qatar Foundation will trace his artistic journey from the 1950s until his death in 2011

Journey down memory lane as art galleries in Delhi mark milestone anniversaries

August 25, 2025 3:14 am

This year marks the milestone anniversaries for several art galleries in Delhi that opened at various points in time

Court rejects plea to book art gallery that displayed ‘offensive’ MF Husain paintings

Row over MF Husain paintings: Court junks plea seeking FIR against art gallery. Here's why

August 22, 2025 2:22 pm

Advocate Makarand D Adkar, who represented complainant Amita Sachdeva, had moved the sessions court against a magistrate court order, which had refused to direct the registration of an FIR against DAG, formerly known as Delhi Art Gallery.

Why so many MF Husain paintings have horses: Flying across horizons, 'from Karbala to Ashwamedh'

July 28, 2025 6:03 pm

Rarely static, Husain’s horses are powerful creatures that exude immense grace, drawing inspiration from history and religion. His very last series, meant to be an ode to diversity and pluralism in India, also featured horses, but was left incomplete.

MF Husain hated Sooraj Barjatya's Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon

MF Husain threw his paintbrush at the screen after watching Sooraj Barjatya's biggest flop; questioned him, 'What have you done?'

April 25, 2025 3:16 pm

Sooraj Barjatya got a call from MF Husain after the painter watched his film Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon.

Learn to expand your brain to understand art: DAG to complainant who said MF Husain paintings insulted gods

April 05, 2025 4:34 am

While the complainant argued that gods “have been shown holding nude women” in M F Husain paintings, the lawyer for Delhi-based DAG said “there are misleading facts in the complaint”.

Paintings by J Sultan Ali (left) and Prosanto Roy, part of the DAG exhibition.

How Cubism, the art movement led by the likes of Picasso, evolved in India

March 28, 2025 1:14 pm

Cubism marked a break from traditionalist perspectives. Renowned Indian artists MF Husain and FN Souza, among others, are counted among its proponents.