Popular Institute of Art:

Popular Institute of Art, an initiative of the publishing house Popular Prakashan, aims to develop a serious knowledge bank and infrastructure for India’s contemporary visual arts. Its mission is to inform the enthusiast and to augment the bandwidth of the informed.

PIA collaborates with artists, critics, curators, viewers and readers towards achieving a convergence. At the school level, it models an art pedagogy that is responsive and participatory, aiming to cultivate new generations that will not regard culture as alien to normal life, but rather embrace it as a necessary condition of being.

The institute along with foundation b & g, has a successful publishing programme that includes entry-level, intermediate and specialist books.

About Popular Prakashan:

Popular Prakashan has been in the field of bookselling and publishing for the last 87 years. Established in 1924, Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. pioneered Indian publishing in Medicine, Health and the Social Sciences. Our publishing list of over three thousand titles spans a truly impressive range of books on different subjects and in varied languages, which we can confidently claim, is unrivaled by any other independent publisher in India.

In the last 20 years, Popular has made a very successful entry into publishing biographies, children’s fiction and reference books, cookery books and teen fiction. For Marathi books, Popular has been at the forefront of publishing ever since its inception with over a thousand titles.

Popular has recently entered Art publishing through foundation b & g and the recently launched “The Dialogues Series” on acclaimed artists Baiju Parthan, Manu Parekh, Veer Munshi, Atul and Anju Dodiya authored by eminent poet, curator and critic Ranjit Hoskote and critic and curator Nancy Adajania, is one such initiative!