In 1964, the British painter Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) traveled to India, accompanied by a curator of Indian art from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Hodgkin had been interested in Indian ...

In 2008, the National Museum of the American Indian mounted a retrospective of the work of the 20th-century Figurative artist Fritz Scholder. It titled the show “Indian/Not Indian,” referring to the ...

In the winter of 1967, artist Fritz Scholder broke a promise. Working as a teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Scholder was already a Native American artist of some renown. His work up ...

Do you know which famous Rajasthani painting is known as the Indian Mona Lisa? This beautiful painting is considered a jewel of Indian miniature painting, embodying the era's romanticism. Learn about ...

Oklahoma City-based artist Brent Learned, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is known for his colorful, impressionistic portrayals of the Plains Indian way of life. He ...

I HAVE heard it said that modern Indian art is neither modern nor Indian. That, of course, is an exaggeration, and yet it causes one to pause momentarily and cast a backward glance over the centuries.

Detail of Woody Crumbo’s oil on canvas mural for the Fort Sill Indian School, in “Crumbo Spirit Talk” at the Oklahoma History Center (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) ...

Against a deep blue backdrop, sword-wielding demons attempt to disrupt a sacred ritual. Ram, who is dressed in a yellow dhoti and rendered in a shade of blue distinct from the background, rains arrows ...

The Pueblo Indian artists who were the first to take brush to paper, establishing the easel-art tradition in Native America, are the focus of the current exhibition Paintings by Early Students of the ...

We all crave spaces that carry a slice of our story, a bit of cultural flavour and a spark that feels uniquely ours. Indian art forms offer an incredible range of styles, colours, and stories that can ...