February brings not roses so much as new art shows that you can incidentally turn into date-night activity. Mangesh Rajguru halts the eye mid-step, letting colour brush against humour and time; Shimul Saha reframes war as theatre, testing form, scale and perception through drawing, sculpture, fabric, video and cyanotype. At Chanakya School, cloth becomes a testimony of labour, lineage and transmission (photo Experimenter Kolkata); while Jodhaiya Bai Baiga carries forest ritual, labour and chant into contemporary paint. Read together, these exhibitions map a field preoccupied with how materials perform and how forms are shaped by stories and time. India Art Fair, the star attraction of the annual cultural calendar, celebrates it 17th edition with 135 exhibitors working across clay, cork, paper, pigment and more—mediums that act as carriers of history, labour and imagination. Here’s a lowdown on the other shows that you shouldn’t miss this month.
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