label exhibition co-curated by DAG In 2015, DAG opened gallery in
Fuller Building gallery in
New York, retrospecting on artist
Madhvi Parekh. Designed by Adrien Gardère, the museum displays 400 artworks through 4 exhibitions: Thomas and William Daniells’ colonial landscapes and aquatints; Popular prints; Portraits; and India's National Treasure Artists. In 2019, DAG, in collaboration with
Ministry of Textiles, organized multi-artist exhibition titled
Eternal Banaras in
Varanasi. In 2020, DAG, in collaboration with the
National Gallery of Modern Art and the
Ministry of Culture, presented an exhibition featuring 200 years of Bengal's art history via 700 artworks spread across twelve galleries. This exhibition, known as
Ghare-Baire, inspired by
Tagore's novel of the same name (which translates as 'the home and the world'), was hosted at the colonial-era
Currency Building in
Kolkata, from January 2020 to November 2021. Although the museum exhibition was shut down temporarily in between owing to the
COVID-19 pandemic, it successfully popularised and promoted the development of art in Bengal during the colonial period to the emergence of artists and unique art forms in the late and post-colonial era. From showcasing travelling European artists in Bengal to featuring the evolution of native artists, DAG was able to exhibit diverse schools of art found in the erstwhile
Bengal presidency.
Company paintings,
Early Bengal paintings, and
Kalighat patachitra are some of the styles that were presented as part of the exhibition. This exhibition titled ''March to Freedom: Reflections on India's Independence'' was also in light of
India's 75 years of independence. In April 2023, DAG announced "about acquiring the 75-year-old
Jamini Roy house in Kolkata and its plans to open India’s first private single-artist museum" in April 2024. Inspired by the
Frida Kahlo Museum in
Mexico, this initiative aims to document the works of artist Jamini Roy in his house, which was also his studio, located in Kolkata's
Ballygunge Place. The upcoming
Jamini Roy Museum, in this "three-storeyed spread over 7,000 sqft house, would also include a resource centre, library, museum shop, and a cafe." The ground floor of the house will illustrate DAG's wide-ranging collections of Roy's paintings, whereas the courtyards and terrace would be used as spaces to host workshops and a place for visitors to eat. In June 2023, DAG organised an exhibition in Delhi titled
The Babu and The Bazaar. This presentation promoted artworks "of exquisite oil paintings,
pat watercolours, prints and reverse paintings from the 19th and early 20th Century that drew inspiration from everywhere while remaining local in technique." ==References==