The exhibition What India Learned to See received meaningful coverage for its focused exploration of Raja Ravi Varma Press lithographs and their role in shaping India’s modern visual imagination. The coverage highlighted the exhibition’s attempt to move beyond the idea of these prints as decorative images, positioning them instead as cultural documents that transformed how gods, epics, ideals of beauty, and national identity entered everyday homes. Attention was drawn to the show’s curatorial approach, which brought together Lakshmi, Saraswati, Krishna, Vishnu, Rama and other iconic images across presses, periods and printing traditions. The response also recognised the Raja Ravi Varma Heritage Foundation’s continuing efforts to preserve, study and popularise this important visual legacy. Overall, the coverage helped underline the exhibition’s larger purpose: to show how lithographs taught generations of Indians to see divinity, mythology and culture through a shared visual language.
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Press coverage for the show can be accessed below:
- Caleidoscope.in, 16th April 2026
- Architect and Interiors, India, 20th April 2026
- Outlook Luxe
- PNI
- Bold Outline
- Hello India