Review at a glance

London has already welcomed one blockbuster exhibition of Indian art this year, courtesy of the British Museum , which even inspired the theme of its inaugural ball . Wealthy investors from India are truly having a huge impact on the art scene here , and now the Royal Academy is training a more contemporary lens on work from the subcontinent. A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle, curated by Tarini Malik, brings together works from India’s 20th-century modernist movement with great effect.

Mukherjee herself was a sculptor bornin Mumbai in 1949, with a career spanning four decades (she died in 2015) and whowas best known for her towering works in hemp and clay — on loan here from the Tate. Malik has chosen to place these pieces in the ro

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