Hindustan Times and MAP bring an art museum edition to your breakfast table

Art has always had a distribution problem. It is meant to be shared, yet it often stays where it is safest, inside frames, walls, and a few cities. The boldest thing art ever did was learn how to travel. Editions and reproductions turned a work from something you visit into something that can show up in everyday life, without losing its authorship.

On New Year’s Day 2026, Hindustan Times, in collaboration with the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), has done something rarely attempted at this scale. It made art travel through the most habitual object in the country’s morning routine, the newspaper. Bouquet of Hope is a one-million-copy artwork edition, with each copy uniquely numbered. The number is the twist. It gave the morning paper provenance, a simple detail that makes it feel less like “today’s edition” and more like “my edition.”

At the heart of Bouquet of Hope is a 4-page special art insert built around a single shared composition created through contributions from 25 leading Indian artists, spanning generations and practices. The insert is structured like a compact exhibition you can hold.

The opening introduces the artwork and its edition identity, the inner pages profile the participating artists with curatorial context, and the final page invites the reader to participate, taking the work beyond print and into a growing collective bouquet online.

Artists featured include Prabhakar Barwe, Manjit Bawa, N. S. Bendre, Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharjee, Vasundhara Tewari Broota, Jayashree Chakravarty, Jogen Chowdhury, Amitava Das, Dharmanarayan Dasgupta, Indra Dugar, Laxma Goud, K. K. Hebbar, M. F. Husain, Bhupen Khakhar, Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar, Anjolie Ela Menon, Badri Narayan, Mona Rai, Shyamal Dutta Ray, Suhas Roy, G. R. Santosh, Arpita Singh, Paramjit Singh, and K. G. Subramanyan, brought together into one collective work.

“New Year’s Day is one of the rare mornings when people pause before the year accelerates,” said Satyajit Sengupta, Executive Director - Revenue, HT Media Group. “We wanted to use that pause to create something authored, where craft leads, and scale does not flatten meaning. When a newspaper becomes a numbered artwork,
it stops being a one-day utility and starts behaving like an edition. It gets kept, discussed, and displayed.”

“Bouquet of Hope is a reminder that art can be both intimate and shared. Partnering with Hindustan Times allows this work to enter everyday lives at an unprecedented scale, while still remaining deeply personal. It’s a quiet, powerful way to begin the year; with reflection, care, and hope.” Abhishek Poddar, Founder-Trustee at the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP).

Bouquet of Hope also extends beyond print. Readers are invited to add their own flower to a growing digital bouquet via bouquetofhope.in, whether as a photograph, a sketch, a bloom from their balcony, or an embroidered motif. Readers can also create a digital arrangement and send a bouquet to their loved ones, turning a one-day release into an ongoing, shared gesture of connection.