Among the first major purchases in the collector and patron’s now 15,000-strong art collection were two works by M. F. Husain, bought together with her husband, Shiv Nadar, the billionaire founder of India’s HCL Technologies. The modernist painter became the subject of The Rooted Nomad, a retrospective and immersive experience combined, presented during this year’s Venice Biennale. Meanwhile, the Barbican in London was showing a wide range of her collection in The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998, a survey of over 30 Indian artists making work during one of the country’s most turbulent periods. Back home in Delhi, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (which opened an outpost in Noida, southeast of the city) featured, inter alia, a critical dialogue between the work of Simryn Gill, Neha Choksi and Hajra Waheed, a survey of photographer Raghu Rai and a centennial exhibition of modernist painter Mohan Samant. The institution is also gearing up to move to new David Adjaye-designed 100,000sqm premises in 2026 or 2027.