Isha Ambani Piramal at home, with a work by Subodh Gupta. “We want museums to send their works to us and breathe easy,” she says. Isha Ambani Piramal recently spent hours trying to borrow a car-size sculpture of a whale’s heart. She hoped to include the bindi-covered piece by Bharti Kher, An Absence of Assignable Cause, in the inaugural exhibit of her family’s new kunsthalle-style space in Mumbai, Art House. “It’s still so complex to get some pieces around India,” she says, “but I’m hopeful we can get it.” (She did.)

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