A single painting from the 1890s just fetched Rs 167.2 crore. Raja Ravi Varma's Yashoda and Krishna is now India's most expensive artwork, and the auction room was not ready.

Subodh Gupta's massive solo show Ek Mutthi Aasman at NMACC Mumbai runs until May 17. Four floors of installations transform everyday Indian objects into monuments. This is the art event of the year.

Three cities, three nights, one of the biggest DJs on the planet. Calvin Harris's India debut is proof that the country is now firmly on the global live music map.

The India Art Festival 2026 is live in Hyderabad with 300 artists, 80 booths and 3,000 artworks. Here is why India's art scene is having its biggest moment yet.

48 Pahari paintings from India's hill kingdoms are now showing at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. It is one of the most underrated art traditions in the world finally getting the stage it deserves.

Raja Ravi Varma's 'Yashoda and Krishna' just became the most expensive Indian painting ever sold at auction. The buyer is Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of Serum Institute. The price tag: Rs 167 crore. Indian art is not playing around anymore.

There's a girl in Bengaluru painting mythology on reclaimed cardboard. A guy in Kolkata making collages from old Hindi film posters. A collective in Chennai blending Carnatic music with generative AI. None of them are famous yet. All of them have 50k to 200k followers. This is what Indian art looks like in 2026.

Walk through Lodhi Colony in Delhi and it stops you mid-stride. Murals six storeys tall, colours that should not exist in real life, faces painted at a scale that makes you just stand and stare. Indian street art is not a subculture anymore. It is architecture.

The artists who painted walls in Lodhi Colony are now showing in Seoul and Berlin. Indian street art has left the periphery and it is not going back.

Bollywood still runs the room, but underground and indie Indian music in 2026 is doing something genuinely different. The artists, the venues, the fanbase, the money. All of it is changing.

Walk through Lodhi Colony and something hits you immediately. Not a gallery, not a curator — just a wall, massive and unapologetic. Indian street art is having its loudest, most confident moment ever.

Indian street art in 2026 is younger, louder, and more rooted in Indian subject matter than anything before it. Here is what is actually happening on the walls.