The images on view in the exhibition "Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920" may seem to a modern viewer to be compelling portraiture made by pioneering artists. But context changes everything: The images were taken by British colonialists as part of a great project of photographic ethnography, intended to classify, categorize and ultimately control their subjects. People visiting the exhibition at the Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), have been able to see how the British enlisted photography as a tool to further the imperial project, noted The Guardian recently. The exhibition accompanies the release of a book.

Thursday, April 9-Sunday, April 12: The IFPDA Print Fair at Park Avenue Armory The “gold standard for fine art print collecting” (ARTnews, April 7, 2025), the IFPDA Print Fair is an annual pilgrimage site for print curators and collectors.  This spring, the fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory from April 9 to 12 with 80 exhibitors and an expanded focus on drawings alongside prints in a nod to the medium’s long-standing relationship with print...