Inside Icons of Art: Conde Nast Traveller and Tiffany & Co. host an elegant celebration of South Asian creativity

"Condé Nast Traveller's Global Editorial Director, Divia Thani, hosted an intimate cocktail gathering at Annabel's in Mayfair in partnership with Tiffany & Co. The art crowd spilt into the club's gilded Elephant Room, where leading gallerists, curators, collectors, and cultural voices from across the Indian subcontinent gathered to toast the growing presence of South Asian art on the global stage. Among the guests were Nadia Samdani, Aarti Amit Lohia, Shalini Misra,"

"Kher's acclaimed practice - spanning painting, sculpture, and installation - often turns the bindi into both material and metaphor, a meditation on identity and multiplicity. Meanwhile, Gupta, who trained as a painter before turning to sculpture, is known for transforming humble stainless-steel utensils into monumental works that reflect on labour, migration, and ritual. Between them, their works live in the collections of Tate, the Pompidou, the Guggenheim and Hauser & Wirth, and have been shown at the Venice Biennale and Victoria and Albert Museum."

Divia Thani hosted an intimate cocktail gathering at Annabel's in Mayfair in partnership with Tiffany & Co., timed ahead of Frieze London. Leading gallerists, curators, collectors and cultural voices from the Indian subcontinent gathered in the club's Elephant Room to celebrate the growing visibility of South Asian art worldwide. Guests included Nadia Samdani, Aarti Amit Lohia, Shalini Misra, Rajshree Pathy, Esha Arora, Anita Rani and Roshini Vadehra. Bharti Kher and Subodh Gupta reflected on meeting in Delhi in the 1990s and their shared artistic language. Kher's work reinterprets the bindi as material and metaphor; Gupta transforms stainless-steel utensils into sculptures addressing labour, migration and ritual. Kher mentors emerging artists through Tiffany & Co.'s Artist-to-Artist initiative at Frieze London.

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