The portrait of a witness | 'Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies' opens @ MoMA, New York

India Today · Arshia · 2026-11-06 13:57 UTC

At MoMA Nilima Sheikh039s maiden New York show asks what art can hold when landscapes themselves become spectators to violence

At MoMA, Nilima Sheikh's maiden New York show asks what art can hold when landscapes themselves become spectators to violence

ARTIST’S REPOSE: Sheikh at her Delhi residence, with Bhupen Khakar’s ‘Nilima Sheikh looking at Orange Flower’ (1971) in the background (Photograph by Hardik Chhabra)

It’s six in the evening in our part of the world when Nilima Sheikh answers a phone call from New York City. The octogenarian artist has just woken up after the opening night of her New York debut, with the exhibition Fractured Skies staged at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

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