Art has forever mesmerised people. From the movements of air it captures with swaying grass and clothes, to the stillness of ...

The moon, known as Chandra or Soma, holds a revered place in Indian folklore, mythology, and art. As a deity, Chandra ...

has rewritten the record books for Indian art. Husain's Untitled (Gram Yatra), a sprawling 14-foot-wide mural, sold for an unprecedented $13.8m (£10.6m) at a Christie's auction in New York last week.

It shattered the previous high for Indian art of $7.4m (£5.7m), fetched by Amrita Sher-Gil's The Story Teller in 2023. Husain, who died in 2011, aged 95, was a pioneer of Indian modernism and ...