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{{Short description|Art house based in India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}{{Use Indian English|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox company
| name = DAG (Delhi Art Gallery)
| former_name = Delhi Art Gallery
| type = Art gallery
| founded = {{Start date|df=yes|1993}}
| founder = Rama Anand
| location = New Delhi
| key_people = Ashish Anand<br />{{small|(MD & CEO)}}
| website = {{URL|https://dagworld.com/}}
}}

'''DAG''', previously known as '''Delhi Art Gallery''', is an art house having galleries in [[India]] and [[New York City|New York]]. Started in 1993 in [[Hauz Khas]] by Rama Anand, DAG showcases modern Indian artists like [[Raja Ravi Verma]], [[Jamini Roy]], [[Amrita Sher-Gil]], [[S. H. Raza|SH Raza]] among others.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2019-12-12 |title=DAG across the globe |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/dag-new-delhi-new-york/ |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=Apollo Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=More People Looked At Art Online In 2020 Than Physically In 28 Years: Ashish Anand |url=https://www.forbesindia.com/article/forbes-lifes/more-people-looked-at-art-online-in-2020-than-physically-in-28-years-ashish-anand/66701/1 |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=Forbes India |language=en}}</ref>

== History ==

DAG, started in [[Hauz Khas|Hauz Khas village]] in 1993 by Rama Anand, is currently managed by her son Ashish Anand.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2022-06-10 |title=How DAG's Ashish Anand is making modern art accessible to all |url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com//news/big-story/how-dag-s-ashish-anand-is-making-modern-art-accessible-to-all-111654829354171.html |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=Mintlounge |language=en}}</ref> The art-house owns and operates galleries and museums in [[New Delhi]], [[Kolkata]], [[Mumbai]], and [[New York City|New York]]. It also caters to archives, publications, and public outreach.<ref name=":0" />

The initiative, which was initially named Delhi Art Gallery, started when the Anand family moved from Amritsar to Delhi during Punjab's [[Insurgency in Punjab, India|militancy phase]] in the 1980s.<ref name=":4" /> Rama, an art enthusiast started it, but her son Ashish took over the initiative in 1996, after dropping out of high school.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-14 |title=The art empire that DAG’s Ashish Anand built |url=https://www.gqindia.com/content/ashish-anand-delhi-art-gallery |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=GQ India |language=en-IN}}</ref> Ashish, who was ready to join the garments business, organically developed an interest in art and spent the next decades working on making DAG accessible, building its presence in multiple cities in India and elsewhere, and also launching a museum called Drishyakala in [[Red Fort]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-03-22 |title=Ashish Anand brings DAG to the Taj, and can finally take a vacation |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/ashish-anand-brings-dag-to-the-taj-and-can-finally-take-a-vacation/article65248551.ece |access-date=2023-07-11 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=DRISHYAKALA |url=https://dagworld.com/drishyakala.html |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=dagworld.com |language=en}}</ref>

== Museums & Gallery ==

In 2015, DAG opened gallery in [[Fuller Building]] gallery in New York, retrospecting on artist [[Madhvi Parekh]].<ref name=":1" />

In 2019, DAG, in collaboration with [[Archaeological Survey of India|Archeological Survey of India]] (ASI), established Drishyakala Art Museum in [[Red Fort]] Delhi.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mathew |first=Sunalini |date=2019-03-30 |title=A barrack at Red Fort has become an art museum |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/landscapes-and-portraits-of-princes/article26675428.ece |access-date=2023-05-15 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Drishyakala Art Museum, New Delhi - Studio Adrien Gardère - Museography, scenography, exhibition design and design agency - Museographer, scenographer, exhibition designer |url=https://www.studiogardere.com/en/projects/museum/drishyakala-art-museum/ |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=www.studiogardere.com}}</ref>

In 2019, DAG, in collaboration with [[Ministry of Textiles]], organized multi-artist exhibition titled ''Eternal Banaras'' in [[Varanasi]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=ETERNAL BANARAS |url=https://dagworld.com/eternal-banaras.html |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=dagworld.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=IANS |date=2019-09-04 |title=Varanasi exhibition showcases art inspired by the holy city |url=https://www.millenniumpost.in/features/varanasi-exhibition-showcases-art-inspired-by-the-holy-city-372679 |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=www.millenniumpost.in |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Desk |first=Sentinel Digital |date=2019-09-05 |title=Varanasi Exhibition Showcases Art Inspired by Holy City - Sentinelassam |url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/national-news/varanasi-exhibition-showcases-art-inspired-by-holy-city/ |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=www.sentinelassam.com |language=en}}</ref>

In 2020, DAG, in collaboration with the [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] and the [[Ministry of Culture (India)|Ministry of Culture]], presented an exhibition featuring 200 years of Bengal's art history via 700 artworks spread across twelve galleries.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Ghare Baire: The World, the Home and Beyond 18th – 20th Century Art in Bengal |url=https://dagworld.com/ghare%20baire:%20the%20world,%20the%20home%20and%20beyond-%20collab.html |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=dagworld.com |language=en}}</ref> This exhibition, known as ''Ghare-Baire'', inspired by [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore's]] [[The Home and the World|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|Covid-19 pandemic]],<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=2021-11-26 |title=Show that celebrated 200 years of Bengal art to shut down |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/show-that-celebrated-200-years-of-bengal-art-to-shut-down/article37714161.ece |access-date=2023-07-11 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> 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|Bengal presidency]]. [[Company style|Company paintings]], [[Bengal School of Art|Early Bengal paintings]], and [[Kalighat painting|Kalighat patachitra]] are some of the styles which were presented as part of the exhibition.<ref name=":2" /> This was the "largest collection of Bengal art on public display anywhere in the world."<ref name=":3" />

In August 2022, DAG, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, housed an exhibition in the [[Indian Museum|Indian Museum, Kolkata]], and later in [[Delhi]] to showcase India's anti-colonial struggle and independence movement.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MARCH TO FREEDOM: REFLECTIONS ON INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE |url=https://dagworld.com/march-to-freedom-reflections-on-india-s-independence.html |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=dagworld.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-09 |title=India@75: DAG's art exhibition zooms into the missing links of the freedom movement |url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/lifestyle-trends/india75-dags-art-exhibition-zooms-into-the-missing-links-of-the-freedom-movement-9291991.html |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=Moneycontrol |language=en}}</ref> This exhibition titled ''March to Freedom: Reflections on India's Independence'' was also in light of [[75th Anniversary of Indian Independence|India's 75 years of independence]]''.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-02 |title=‘March to Freedom’: Exhibition re-interprets India’s freedom movement ‘beyond politics, politicians and battles’ |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/march-to-freedom-art-exhibition-dag-indian-museum-kolkata-india-freedom-movement-independence-artworks-pictures-8121540/ |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-04-28 |title=Inside the DAG x Jamini Roy house |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/dag-jamini-roy-house-art-museum-kolkata-ballygunge-place-ashish-anand/article66790067.ece |access-date=2023-07-11 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-09 |title=In his Kolkata house-turned-art museum, finding traces of Jamini Roy’s elements of design |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/kolkata-jamini-roy-house-turned-museum-design-elements-8599121/ |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dey |first=Sreyashi |date=2023 |title=Jamini Roy family says ‘prayers answered’. His house-museum a window to modern Bengali art |work=The Print |url=https://theprint.in/ground-reports/jamini-roy-family-says-prayers-answered-his-house-museum-a-window-to-modern-bengali-art/1507969/}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-07 |title=Artist Jamini Roy’s home is Kolkata’s newest museum in making |url=https://www.cntraveller.in/story/artist-jamini-roy-home-kolkata-west-bengal-new-museum/ |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=Condé Nast Traveller India |language=en-IN}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home and the world of Jamini Roy, India’s first private single-artist museum |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2023/apr/16/home-and-the-world-ofjamini-royindias-first-private-single-artist-museum-2565635.html |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=The New Indian Express}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-04-02 |title=Jamini Roy’s Kolkata home to become country’s first private artist-museum |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/jamini-roys-kolkata-home-to-become-countrys-first-private-artist-museum/articleshow/99174789.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2023-07-11 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

In June 2023, DAG organised an exhibition in Delhi titled ''The Babu and The Bazaar''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-09 |title=‘The Babu and The Bazaar’ at DAG celebrates art of 19th-Century Bengal |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/the-babu-and-the-bazaar-at-dag-celebrates-art-of-19th-century-bengal-8653535/ |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-06-30 |title=DAG exhibition on art from early 20th Century Bengal |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/colonial-bengal-explored-through-pat-paintings-at-dags-art-show-in-delhi/article67022428.ece |access-date=2023-07-11 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==

* {{Official website|https://dagworld.com/}}

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Ajay Kumar at 07:06, 18 August 2023