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Move over selfie booths, Indian weddings are now capturing memories through live paintings

July 01, 2025 2:28 pm

To explore this rising trend and learn more about it, indianexpress.com spoke with four live painters, from different parts of India.

In Telangana, discovery of a painting spurs call for preservation of rock art sites

May 13, 2025 8:08 pm

The new rock art site with a painting is located at Jeenugarala village in Telangana’s Mahbubnagar. The painting could be from the 11th to 12th century CE, says a historian.

S H Raza, Le Village, 1956, Oil on canvas art, 18 x 22 inches

Protests by artists, beyond political

May 13, 2025 11:37 am

An exhibition at Progressive Art Gallery in Dubai highlights how individual artistic journeys defied stereotypes and shaped collective movements and dialogues

Caravaggio in India: 5 novels about art to read today

May 08, 2025 7:03 pm

With a long-lost and recently discovered painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ‘Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy’, on display in India for the first time, we look at novels that makes stories out of humanity’s obsession with the art world

Top 10 Most Expensive Paintings in the World in 2024 Picasso's Les Femmes d'Alger (Version O) is a famous and important painting in the history of modern art.

Top 10 most expensive paintings in the world—no, it's not Mona Lisa

March 17, 2025 10:32 am

10 Most Expensive Paintings in the World: The world's most expensive painting ever sold is by the renowned artist Leonardo Da Vinci, and no it's not the Mona Lisa.

'Technology cannot overtake true creativity', says artist Paresh Maity about use of AI in art

August 23, 2024 1:28 pm

Paresh Maity, one of India's most prolific painters, talks about his early and recent inspirations to paint.

Exhibition in Delhi traces the Gond tradition of painting through the works of 25 artists

May 05, 2024 4:17 pm

In an exhibition that is on till May 18 at the India International Centre in Delhi, The Raza Foundation has brought together works of over 25 artists to celebrate Gond Qalam in its traditional form and the contemporary interventions that have influenced it over the decades

Tarun Mehrishi traces story of 2 paintings by Russian legend Nicholas Roerich to pen debut novel

July 12, 2023 3:57 pm

Mehrishi also mentions there were weeks when he just could not crack an idea that would drive the narrative forward or fit into the existing jigsaw.

Lady with a Fan by Gustav Klimt, the most expensive artwork to have been sold at a European auction.

Europe's most expensive artwork sold for $108 million: Who was Gustav Klimt, the artist behind it?

June 30, 2023 10:28 am

Considered one of the greatest decorative painters of the 20th century, Klimt is perhaps best known for his oil-on-canvas painting 'The Kiss', with two lovers in an embrace. The piece that was sold recently is titled 'Lady with a Fan'.

Ambadas at 100: An exhibition celebrates the modernist’s centenary

June 23, 2023 2:37 pm

On his birth centenary, an exhibition pays tribute to Ambadas Khobragade – one of the most significant masters of abstract art

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Check out the most famous paintings in the world

September 19, 2023 2:42 pm

Every year, billions of artworks are created all around the world by artists, but only a precious few of them truly achieve the fame that comes with being a household name across the world. So, which are the paintings that have achieved this feat? Let's find out.