The Listicle

SPRING AUCTIONS 2026

April 1 (live) and April 1-2 (online)| Saffronart, Mumbai

While Christie’s gears up to auction works from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection of Indian Paintings and Calligraphy in London on April 28, closer home, Saffronart is all set for its Spring Auctions 2026. On offer are 140 lots of pre-modern and modern Indian art, led by a rare Raja Ravi Varma—‘Yashoda and Krishna’—which is estimated to fetch Rs 80–120 crore.

LUMINOUS TERRAINS

Till April 20 | Art Alive Gallery, Delhi

No one quite embraces colour like Paresh Maity. His new solo exhibition, which was unveiled at Bikaner House and which now continues at Art Alive Gallery, corrals a number of eclectic landscape works, depicting everything from Srinagar’s Dal Lake to the ghats of Varanasi and Rajasthan’s stark desert vista to the lagoons of Venice and the French Riviera.

THE INDIAN PICTURESQUE:LANDSCAPEPAINTING 1800-1850

Till May 2 | DAG, Delhi

Are landscapes the flavour of the season? This exhibition at DAG juxtaposes British and Indian landscape paintings from the early 19th century—including George Chinnery’s exquisite ‘Oxen by a Thatched Dwelling, India’—and seeks out their ‘artistic interconnections and shared visual vocabulary’.

THE CHAIR PROJECT

Till April 11 | Gallery Espace, Delhi

Architect Gautam Bhatia’s recent sculptures of chairs are not merely quirky, they’re downright provocative. The gallery calls them ‘a satirical lens on the seats of power’ and the sculpture titles hint at what to expect: ‘Badly Packed Chair’, ‘Windblown Chair’, ‘Chair Within Chair’, ‘Growing Chair’, ‘Half Chair’, ‘Execution Chair’ and so on.

I TO EYE: SHADES OF HUMANITY

Till April 12 | NGMA, Bengaluru

Asha Thadani is one of our most important contemporary photographers, noted for her empathetic depiction of India’s marginalised communities. Through 16 photo stories, she explores the universal themes of justice, equality and social inclusion.

—compiled by Amit Dixit