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#IndiaAtTheMet: Rock stars bringing on more Asia, more India to New York's Met museum

For a 146 year old giant, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has an awfully big number of people walking through its doors looking into their smartphones - 9 out of 10 people come in with a mobile device.

#IndiaAtTheMet: Asian treasures inside one of the world's great museums

For the first time ever, an Indian artist is firmly in the spotlight of a top museum's inaugural exhibition - Nasreen Mohamedi retrospective at the Met Breuer.

When a line bends: Who is Nasreen Mohamedi, the Indian artist making waves in New York?

Mohamedi is now being given her due. Her work has travelled from the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, where she received a rapturous ovation, to Tate Liverpool and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid and now to New York’s audacious temple to contemporary art - #MetBreuer. Mohamedi is now recognized as a key figure of South Asian modernism.

#IndiaAtTheMet: More than 150 Nasreen Mohamedi works set to open #MetBreuer spring season

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Director and CEO Thomas Campbell said Mohamedi's work calls on "us to expand our understanding of graphic minimalism in a transnational context. It is a project that speaks to our interest in introducing a broad range of audiences to the innovative work created by artists across borders.

#IndiaAtTheMet: Reliance Foundation to toast artist Nasreen Mohamedi in New York

An exhibition of the works of the late Mumbai-based artist Nasreen Mohamedi is being launched at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or simply The Met, here on Tuesday, supported by Nita Ambani-led Reliance Foundation.

Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi to headline New York museum circuit's new darling - the aspirational Met Breuer

Indian art is the toast of a potentially blockbuster launch of New York’s Met Breuer museum in the first week of March even as prime minister Narendra Modi speaking in Mumbai made a strong push for Indian art and its place in the world’s public square.