The Met’s Indian affair: Iconic New York museum embraces India’s contemporary art boom
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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: New York’s iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art is deepening its ties with India’s booming contemporary art scene to add to its already vast collection of 4,000 pieces of Indian art. Max Hollein, chief executive of the $6 billion institution, recently visited India with an eye on the country’s contemporary art that’s been gaining global attention recently.
“The Indian art market has developed rapidly and profoundly. You now have very important galleries and art fairs in Delhi and Mumbai that have a strong infrastructure to create and disseminate artworks," Hollein told Mint in an interview, adding that contemporary Indian artists are increasingly part of the global conversation. “We are and want to be more engaged with India’s developed art scene." The Metropolitan Museum of Art renewed a five-year agreement with India’s ministry of culture in 2023, covering exhibitions, conservator exchanges, and training initiatives that it first began in the early 2000s.
Last year, the Met and India’s ministry of culture signed a memorandum of understanding focused on exhibitions, conservator exchanges, and training programs following a conservation fellowship completed in 2023. The museum continues to showcase Indian contemporary art, such as Sudhir Patwardhan’s Fall, which is currently part of its collection and on display. Also read | India’s art market is one of the most exciting in recent years: Christie’s CEO Cerutti The Met has been collecting Indian art since 1891 and currently holds a wide-ranging collection spanning 2500 B.C.
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