Date: February 7 through May 6, 2012 

Location: Asia Society Museum, New York, NY

Website:  http://sites.asiasociety.org/princesandpainters/

Details:  Delhi has served as a cultural center of North India for more than a millennium in different incarnations. This exhibition focuses on the 18th century to the mid-19th century, the crucial period when Delhi moved from being the heart of the late Mughal Empire to becoming the jewel in the crown of the British Raj.

Date: February 2 - April 22, 2012

Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

Website: http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/mughalindia/

Details:  "Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin"

This exhibition of Indian paintings will show the collection of the artist Howard Hodgkin in its entirety for the first time. The collection comprises the main types of court painting that flourished during the Mughal period (c.1550-1850), including the refined naturalistic works of the imperial court, the subtle paintings of the Deccani Sultanates, and the bold, vibrant styles of the Rajput kingdoms. Hodgkin has been a passionate collector of Indian paintings since his schooldays, and has made a personal collection, formed by an artist's eye, which has long been considered one of the finest of its kind in the world.

Date: December 11 2011 – March 4 2012

Location: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Website: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/r/rabindranath-tagore-poet-and-painter/

Details:  Tagore is best known as a poet and in 1913 was the first non-European writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Highly prolific, Tagore was also a composer and wrote the national anthems for both India and Bangladesh, as well as an educator, social reformer, philosopher and painter. In India, he is regarded as a national figure whose achievements are as important as those of Gandhi.

Date: December 10, 2011 - September 3, 2012

Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Website: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/gems-rajput-painting

Details:  “Gems of Rajput Painting” features the MFA’s superb collection of paintings made for the princes of Rajasthan and the Punjab hills (known as “Rajputs”). The kingdoms of these art-loving princes shared a common elite culture, though, by the early 1700s, each court had developed its own distinct painting style. The exhibition represents four of Rajput painting’s central themes: heroic narratives, women and romance, Krishna and Hindu devotion, and courtly life.
 


Dates: 15 Nov 2011 - 03 June 2012

Venue:  Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore

Website:  http://acm.org.sg/

Details: Patterns of Trade: Indian Textiles for Export, 1400–1900 presents over seventy works of strikingly patterned and brightly coloured Indian trade textiles from a recently acquired collection. These extraordinary cloths, some over 600 years old, show the deep roots of today’s globalised world and the surprising and fascinating impact of cultural exchange.

Date: through March 2012

Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website: http://www.rom.on.ca

Details: In the modern period, Indian visual forms have often combined past and present techniques in new hybrid varieties. Indian painted photographs exemplify this by combining established painting styles with the new technology of photography.  This exhibition brings together 60 works from the ROM's collection that have been acquired in the last decade but never before on display.