ART AND THE CITY

DAG's annual art and heritage festival will debut in Mumbai with a multi-site programme

- Prachi Joshi

After four editions in Kolkata, DAG’s art and heritage festival, The City as a Museum, will open in Mumbai with a lineup of exhibitions, talks, walks, workshops and a final iftaar feast. Held over two weeks, the festival will travel to historic sites and lesser-known spaces such as artists’ homes and personal archives and collections.

Ashish Anand, CEO and MD of DAG, says, “With four editions of The City as a Museum in Kolkata behind us, we wanted to explore other cities through the same platform, and Mumbai was the logical choice given its extraordinary heritage sites and diverse and vibrant communities and cultures. Even from a purely pedagogical exercise, Kolkata and Mumbai are the two cities most closely linked with the development of pre-modern and modern Indian art.”