Laugh a little more this year...

The year has at least begun on a note of humour, with 12 artists in a calendar art show curated by Himanshu Verma for Red Earth and Apparo Galleries, at Delhi’s Triveni Kala Sangam till the end of the month. Watchable, and laughable, with artists such as Alexis Kersey, Farhan Mujib, Pushpamala N, Rajendra Kapse, the Singh twins, Thukral and Tagra, and Waswo X Waswo.

Waswo, coincidentally, gets an entire show dedicated to his miniature works, consisting of pigment and gold on wasli, at the Palette Art Gallery, in the same city. Waswo’s irreverent take on traditional iconography is eminently enjoyable. Till February 6.

Meanwhile, also at Triveni is a show of Anki Khurana’s paintings, The Alchemy of Transformation presented by E Alkazi. On till February 5.

By far the most fascinating work in the city currently on is The Geometry of Error, consisting on acrylic and quilted silk, or collages on canvas, by Mekhala Bahl, at a show at Gallery Espace (till February 28), a language that is still new and edgy, but comforting for its texture and nuances.

In Mumbai, don’t miss the Julian Opie show, again for its pop-style irreverence, opening on January 31 and on till February 24 at Sakshi Gallery.

For the seventh time in succession, but the first time in Mumbai, Baroda-based Red Earth Art Galleries will take its annual and celebrated Feb Group Show to the National Gallery of Modern Art at NCPA – but that’s next month, and it features 24 talented young artists. Nevertheless, well worth marking in your diary: from February 7-15.

Back in Delhi, Vadehra Art Gallery has two important shows — Anjum Singh’s All that glitters is litter is on in Okhla till February 9, and Ram Kumar’s selected works can be seen in Defence Colony till February 14.

At the Experimental Gallery at India Habitat Centre, catch up with ceramicist Archana Das, whose works are on display till the end of the day today.

And at Photoink, don’t miss A Critic’s Eye, photographs by Richard Bartholomew, till February 28, The exhibition will travel to Chatterjee & Lal in Mumbai thereafter.