India Art Summit Opens Without Country’s Top Painter Due To Fears Of Violence

“India’s biggest contemporary art show opened in New Delhi on Thursday, but without works from the country’s most acclaimed painter because of fears of attacks by Hindu extremist groups. Painter M.F. Husain, 94, who has been called the ‘Picasso of India,’ has angered hardline Hindus by portraying Hindu deities in the nude or in a sexually suggestive manner.”