A familiar New York gallery has returned under a new name. Aicon Art, long associated with South Asian modernism, has rebranded as AINA Gallery and opened a new purpose-built space in Chelsea at 550 West 29th Street, designed by studioMDA. The grand opening took place on October 1, and the launch marks what founder Prajit Dutta describes as a deliberate repositioning: a platform dedicated to modern and contemporary art of the non-Western world, presented with the same scholarly rigor and production values afforded to Western art. The name itself carries the program's thesis. Aina — the Persian and South Asian word for mirror — signals a space of reflection and exchange, one the gallery frames as long overdue. In a statement, Dutta argues that New York has always been a global crossroads for art, yet non-Western modernisms and artists of the Global South remain underrepresented on its stages. AINA intends to fill that gap by pairing twentieth-century South Asian modern masters with cutting-edge contemporary practitioners working across South Asia, Africa, and their global diasporas. The inaugural exhibition, 'Other Stories — A Genealogy for the Present,' takes its cue from a landmark precedent: Rasheed Araeen's 1989 Hayward Gallery survey 'The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain.' Curatorial advisor Atreyee Gupta treats that exhibition as both historical anchor and provocation. The opening hang mixes rare works by seminal twentieth-century masters with new pieces by leading contemporary voices, among them Peju Alatise, Khadim Ali, Faiza Butt, Avinash Chandra, Victor Ekpuk, Ernest Mancoba, Krishna Reddy, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Francis Newton Souza, Aubrey Williams, and Zarina. Araeen himself is represented by 'Burgundy & Red' (1971/2026), an acrylic-on-wood work that bridges the decades. For Dutta, the mission is one of clarity and synthesis rather than mere inclusion: presenting these movements with the depth of research and quality of display they have long deserved but rarely received outside Western frameworks. The Chelsea debut is the first move in that direction.