Kiran Nadar on a landmark exhibition from her museum collection

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Kiran Nadar on a landmark exhibition from her museum collection: 'Art can do what politics and public discourse often cannot — it creates space for empathy’
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INDIA CHEGA AO PALÁCIO DUQUES DE CADAVAL

Source Lux Deco
O Palá­cio Duques de Cada­val, em Évora, trans­for­mou-se uma vez mais num lugar de encon­tro entre dife­ren­tes geo­gra­fias, tem­pos e for­mas de expres­são artís­tica. A expo­si­ção ‘INDIA’ reúne cerca de quinze artis­tas con­tem­po­râ­neos indi­a­nos, pro­ve­ni­en­tes de con­tex­tos urba­nos e de comu­ni­da­des tri­bais, numa expo­si­ção que revela a com­ple­xi­dade e a riqueza de um ter­ri­tó­rio onde tra­di­ção, espi­ri­tu­a­li­dade e expe­ri­men­ta­ção con­vi­vem lado a lado. Mais do que uma apre­sen­ta­ção de arte con­tem­po­râ­nea indi­ana, a expo­si­ção pro­põe uma mudança de pers­pe­tiva: olhar para a Índia não como uma rea­li­dade única, mas como um con­junto de múl­ti­plas vozes, his­tó­rias e lin­gua­gens. Entre prá­ti­cas liga­das a gran­des cen­tros urba­nos e cri­a­ções pro­fun­da­mente enrai­za­das em tra­di­ções ances­trais, INDIA cons­trói um diá­logo onde dife­ren­tes for­mas de cri­a­ção coe­xis­tem em igual­dade. A esco­lha do Palá­cio Duques de Cada­val acres­centa uma dimen­são sim­bó­lica ao pro­jeto. Ins­ta­lado num edi­fí­cio com sécu­los de his­tó­ria, o espaço aco­lhe uma expo­si­ção que revi­sita uma rela­ção igual­mente longa entre Por­tu­gal e a Índia, mar­cada por via­gens, inter­câm­bios cul­tu­rais e encon­tros que con­ti­nuam a encon­trar novas for­mas de expres­são no pre­sente. A expo­si­ção estará patente até 25 de outu­bro, no Palá­cio Duques de Cada­val, em Évora.
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Craft finds a new voice

Source Mumbai Mirror by Sapna Sarfare
A decade after its launch, Lucknow’s Kalhath Institute is challenging who gets recognised as an artist, one embroidered work at a time For generations, Indian embroidery has travelled the world attached to luxury labels, couture houses and museum collections. The names remembered, however, have rarely been those of the people whose hands created the work. That imbalance sits at the heart of Kalhath Institute, a Lucknow-based organisation that has spent the past decade trying to change how Indian craftsmanship is valued, taught and understood. Founded in 2016 by textile expert Maximiliano Modesti and Mohammed Amine Dadda under the Kalhath Foundation, the institute treats traditional embroidery as more than inherited skill. It encourages artisans to study the history of their craft, engage with contemporary artists and discover their own creative language. To mark its 10th year, Kalhath has partnered with designer and architect Rooshad Shroff for an exhibition at Gallery Rooshad Shroff in Ballard Estate, bringing together embroidered artworks, archival photographs and pieces created through its Artist-in-Residence programme.
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India Palace of the Duques of Cadaval Evora Portugal Exhibition until October 25, 2026

In the 1970s, otherness—the recognition of the other as a distinct being, carrying a culture, ideas, or experiences different from one's own—was at the center of the concerns of Indian artists and intellectuals. In 1982, the Bharat Bhavan was inaugurated in Bhopal, the first museum to present in a single venue artists from the subcontinent's major art schools alongside those from folk and tribal cultures. The Évora / India exhibition at the Palace of the Duques of Cadaval is part of this school of thought and brings together eighteen contemporary Indian artists from the most diverse cultural backgrounds.

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