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Delhi's hottest new nightlife trend isn't a speakeasy. It's gallery hopping

Def Col Art Night, a monthly gallery crawl in Delhi's Defence Colony, transforms the neighborhood into an open-access art festival on select Friday evenings. Over ten galleries stay open until 9 PM, offering free entry, no registrations, and a pedestrian-friendly route where visitors move between exhibitions, performances, and artist interactions. The event attracts a diverse crowd—collectors, students, curious locals, and content creators—blending art appreciation with social spontaneity, and even allowing drinks alongside the canvases.

Divinity in print | The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting "Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930," an exhibition exploring the evolution of Hindu visual culture through the rise of chromolithography. The show traces how mass-produced prints transitioned sacred imagery from exclusive temple environments into the intimate, everyday spaces of domestic shrines.

Column | Indian art in a global context

The article examines the evolution of the Indian Modern and Contemporary Art market over the past three decades, noting a shift in financial power from New York and London to Mumbai and New Delhi. It highlights the pivotal 1997 auction 'The Intuitive-Logic II' organized by HEART (Tuli Foundation for Holistic Education and Art) as a catalyst, and traces the market's trajectory through a boom period (2000-2007), a stagnation and decline (2010-2018), and a current sustained rise.