Arts

Better known for comedy plays, the director-actor enters the world of psychological thrillers

From queer narratives to stories of migration and identity, nine Indian films are headed to Busan International Film Festival

The first-ever Punjabi pick for TorinoFilmLab’s Next Feature Film, it asks what a girl’s period takes away

Emami Art’s fifth Experimental Film Festival brings international moving-image practices, student works and experimental cinema to Kolkata

Literature has been rich with brilliant, unruly women who cut through social stratification in many epic tales, yet ultimately succumbed to the traditionalist point of view

‘The Evolution of the Soothsayer’ marks three decades of Nature Morte and a new address for the Delhi gallery

He is the second Kannada actor after Dr Rajkumar to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award

‘Many Modernisms’ traces the many faces of Indian modernism

A series of performances, music and poetry is being held across the city

Shashank Walia’s ‘Birds in the Dark’ is based on the epic struggle Punjab’s landless Dalits have waged for reclaiming common village land

To mark 200 years of photography, eminent lensman Dinesh Khanna pens a heartfelt ode to the medium

He grew up adoring the little birds of his hometown Una. Prompted by artistic inspiration, he began modelling birds with clay from his fields at home. A child fascinated by the anatomy of the winged creatures that found their way...

A residency programme in Himachal Pradesh brought together artists across generations and practices. The works created go on display tomorrow

At Blueprint12 in Delhi, Mumbai-born, London-based artist Rewati Shahani uses her own body, sculptural heads, prints, photographs and paintings to speak about borders, belonging and the need to remain visible when exclusion is becoming part of everyday politics

An exhibition at DAG traces the origins and legacy of the Faculty of Fine Arts at MS University, home to Independent India’s first school of art

Set in early 20th century, the play examines issues of love, loss, longing and memory

Tucked away at Sidhbari, the NAAM Art Gallery is where German painter Elsbeth Buschmann brings together art, meditation and the Himalayan spirit, while preserving the visual legacy of British painter AW Hallett, whose canvases captured Dharamsala’s landscapes, people and culture.

Film Heritage Foundation restores Kamal Amrohi’s 1972 classic starring Meena Kumari after a painstaking two-year effort

The film previously featured at the NFDC Waves Film Bazaar 2025 Work in Progress Lab

The event returns for its ninth edition, allowing people to encounter art without the scale and commercial pressure of a conventional fair

A new book tells the storied tale, marked by opulence and intricacy of design

The city just had a brush with the creativity of Chandigarh-based artist Smrit Luthra, whose works largely explore the quiet beauty of nature and the maelstrom of its hues. Presented in oil on canvas, the exhibition, held at Thakar Singh...

Short film ‘Lasya — The Gentle Dance’ follows a father and son, beggars on Mumbai’s road-side, during a day in their life

The Shashank Walia directorial is an official selection for 31st Busan International Film Festival

Known for vivid dot-covered works and infinity mirror room installations