Delve into MAP's exquisite collection with Kamini Sawhney and explore the stories behind artworks hailing from different eras.

A writer's journey of exploring the ever evolving urban landscape of the city using photography and friendships.

A writer's tribute to the surprising sights and comforting rhythms of Hennur Road in Bangalore.

The streets of Bangalore, fragmented and splintered, make way for an unlikely friendship.

Exploring the role of materials, memories and meanings in Shanthamani M.'s work through an exclusive conversation with the artist.

Musings of a lifelong Bangalore dweller/lover about the transformation of this leafy, laid-back, bungalow-ed cosmopolitan city into a global technology capital.

Exploring the origin story of Fraser Town, an area that came to be as a result of the Mysore administration's response to the devastating...

Handcrafted in various sizes, shapes and materials, the dolls displayed during Gombe Habba in Karnataka come together each year to narrate riveting tales.

Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II of Jaipur was ‘rediscovered’ as a photographer a hundred years after his death in 1880. Here, we take a...

A closer look at India’s navratnas, or the nine gems, who brought about the first wave of modernism in the country.

These Indian designers’ love affair with the humble Kantha stitch is as much a tale of empowerment and sustainability as it is of contemporising...

The futuristic experience, powered by a collaboration between MAP and Accenture, that enables audiences to interact with a world-renowned artist is the first-of-its-kind and...

The special case of Kanthas in the museum space and speculation as a mode of curating.

The essay attempts to position 'kantha' as an art object and to trace the trajectory of textile artisans, whose voices and art have both...

Bhuri Bai’s recent exhibition at MAP sheds light on her artistic journey and the transformation from a local indigenous artist who painted mud walls...

Committed to its mission of making the arts accessible and inclusive, MAP recently launched an online exhibition that has been designed keeping in mind...

5 contemporary Indian artists who use the moving image to stretch the limits of what’s possible.

Zoya Siddiqui’s ongoing digital exhibition at MAP reaffirms the complexity of migration and displacement in art.

As we celebrate International Women's Day, we asked some of the dynamic women from MAP’s team to reflect on their favourite artwork from the...

Launching a brand new talk series, Director's Cut, MAP brought together museum and cultural leaders from across the world to discuss the future of...

Artist Zoya Siddiqui engages with the themes of belonging, cultural memory and spatial distance.

The role of conservators, especially those working primarily with museum collections, goes beyond mere physical maintenance or restoration of the artworks. To touch upon...

Navina Haider's comprehensive lecture allowed viewers to journey through centuries of Islamic art, all the while elaborating on how Islam has absorbed from the...

Traditionally when we think of art we think of paintings, sculptures, oils, drawings, charcoals, screen-printing, and more recently photography. So what really is 'new...

Although unique in their approach, material and process, their predilection to constantly engage with and represent the living spaces and built environment they inhabit...

Among the 107 awardees of the Padma Shri this year is the acclaimed Bhil artist, Bhuri Bai. This honourable recognition of Bhuri Bai’s extraordinary...

Bhuri Bai’s art has come full circle, from being shown in her home to galleries and now many homes via the Internet.

MAP's latest talk with Ganesh Shivaswamy, an important scholar and collector of Ravi Varma prints, traced the evolution of the popular aesthetic in India,...

Jagdish Swaminathan was instrumental in bringing folk and tribal art from the mud huts of rural India to the living rooms of its busy...

Camera phones and changing attitudes have drastically cut down our visits to photo studios. So what happens inside a studio today?

How a makeshift photo studio at a village fair empowered young girls

Discovering the painted world that Bhuri Bai secretly created and then shared with the world.

On the occasion of ‘Sunil Janah: Vintage Photographs, 1940 – 1960’, an exhibition of rare vintage prints from the Swaraj Art Archive on display...

Dr. Jyotindra Jain reveals how a brocade skirt can become a politically charged symbol.

Prof B.N. Goswamy takes readers on a comprehensive visual and literary journey through the painting, A Remarkable Conclave, depicting an imaginary gathering of thinkers,...

Last in the series of the Art as Witness themed talks by MAP, Bangalore, Breaking the Fourth Wall: From Witnessing to Participation brought together two premier performance artists,...

Through an unveiling of their personal journeys and experiences, Sebastião Salgado and Shahidul Alam, elaborated on the power of photography to catalyse social change...

Giving viewers a sense of the context in which Bhuri Bai’s career has taken shape, this essay discusses how the art market and cultural...

In an exclusive interview with MAP, the award-winning artist Tallur L.N. discusses his video work Interference, as well as the influences, interests and references...

Dr Jyotindra Jain on Jangarh Singh Shyam, one of the most accomplished and individualistic Pardhan Gond artists who is responsible for the popularisation of...

Celebrated Indian artist, Jyoti Bhatt speaks of his journey as a photographer.

Like the layered world that Indian painting is, this seemingly simple, geometrically organised, almost dry-looking, and relatively late painting, seems to say many things...

The small format flat image against a shallow ground, as well as the use of intricate, miniature-like renditions and decorations, illustrated by the thriving...

Learn more about Jangarh Singh Shyam, a pioneering artist who inspired the Gond-Pardhan school of art and inaugurated the Jangarh Kalam, an artistic style...

As humans, our desire to record ourselves is perhaps as old as the history of art making itself. The story of portraiture in Indian...

An average Bengali household in any part of the world is likely to have three things in common – a portrait of the Vaishnava...

Animals have always been powerful symbols – in religious traditions, nationalist narratives, as storytelling devices, popular emojis and a myriad of other instances.

Our interest in the animal world is as old as time. Even before we learnt how to farm or build houses, we were drawing...

Born in pre-Independent India, in pre-partition West Bengal, Arpita Singh ranks among India’s most prominent contemporary artists. For an artist not given to complex...

Who does not like stories? From the earliest humans drawing mysterious motifs on cave walls to an online video gone viral – we are...

Space is one of the seven elements of visual art and is the area in which an artwork is organised. It is the area...

“When you first look at my pictures you know what you’re seeing. Then you realise what you first saw is not correct and you’re...

One may like abstract art outright, hate it or not understand exactly what it is, but it is likely that one is often curious...