A sketch of the Red Fort | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
After its first edition in Mumbai earlier this year and four editions in Kolkata since 2021, Art House DAG has spread the art history of the capital in a fortnight through its trademark events.
Festivals – Until September 21 – allows visitors at various places to detect artistic and cultural traditions, communities and archives that hold the heart and soul of the city.
A integrated series of exhibitions, guided running, dialogue, music, dance and theater performance, and discussions, takes visitors on a lively journey to reputed institutions, historical sites and spaces, for performance and art activism.
Qutub Minar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
As people crucross these older routes with a new approach and shared knowledge, sites and monuments are added. DAG, CEO and MD, DAG, Ashish Anand says, “Landed history and heritage and development opens like an attractive museum for centuries.”
Many historical cities of Delhi were not built on top of one over one – such as the people of Rome or Istanbul, but its extension shoulder shoulder to shoulder on the field. “Therefore, the city can be seen like the succession of galleries that chart its cultural and architectural development. And this festival becomes a way to re -prepare the city as a cultural map to see the city as a cultural map, as a cultural map,” they say.
Jama Masjid | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Each city has its own character and Delhi has always been an interesting center of modern art, which is colonial and national fiction shaped. The festival tries to bring people out different stories at time and place to enable people to understand how the city supported and created protection for art.
“The way this phenomenon has been designed, it reveals the role of the capital in shaping the idea of ​​Indian art and how the artists have prepared their narratives for centuries. It can really be seen, heard, felt and understood,” says Anand.
The backbone of the festival is a special exhibition, cuisted by the art historian Swapna Lydal.
Based on the account of academics Syed Ahmed Khan, Lyle has chronologically cuisted the exhibition in the 19th and 20th centuries with the living experiences of travelers, residents and connoisseur. It manifests a network of complexly associated places in the creation of an emerging nation that creates modern history and sometimes a city which was rebuilt seven times.
Painting a wedding procession in front of Jama Masjid. Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
Selected from the collection of DAG, the art works shown in Bikaner House (till 21 September) include photos, maps, prints, pictures and plans. They collectively tell a fine story from the Sultanate and Mughal Awadhis to Delhi through the formed forms and structures of the city.
Other notable events of the festival included a informative walk through the 18th -century Quadsia Bagh, where 1903 Delhi Durbar was held; Daryaganj book market discovery; After the revolt of 1857, a directed thing through powerful photographs with historian Rudrangshu Mukherjee on the change of Delhi; A emergent audio revolves around the mandi house, performing with the performance songs; And talks with artists in Garhi village.
SAIR-e-DILI is at Ballroom, Bikner House (near India Gate) from September 21, 7 am to 7 pm. Log on to Dagworld.com for more information
Published – September 13, 2025 10:14 AM IST
