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‘This is how art history is built’: unprecedented Mumbai exhibition unites works of Indian and Arab Modernism

The Barjeel collection in Sharjah has loaned works to the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation for the first-ever show to examine 20th-century art of both regions

Booksreview

Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander navigates her country’s complex past—a new monograph tells her story

An art historian’s book on the Lahore-born artist does justice to both her beautiful paintings and the history that informs them

How the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti spoke truth to power

A new book explores Siena's heyday—the good, the bad and the sceptical

Art marketanalysis

With sanctions on Iranian art, buyers are turning to India

As the London art market gears up for Islamic Art Week, its galleries and auction houses face a changing market shaped by geopolitical tension and shifting tastes

Led by £10.2m cheetah miniature, Aga Khan collection breaks all-time record for South Asian art sale

The auction at Christie's London made £45.8m, and closes out a landmark year for the Indian art market

‘I want to haunt people’: Palestinian artist's London exhibition interrogates myth, history and the erasure of heritage

Opening as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas takes effect, Dima Srouji's show shares stories of a lifetime under occupation

Photographer among scores of activists detained by Israeli forces on Gaza aid flotilla

Shahidul Alam was taking part in the Thousand Madleens flotilla on behalf of the Palestinian Arts and Culture Solidarity Collective

Record sales and a tax break close out blockbuster year for South Asian Modern market

Saffronart's latest auction in New Delhi is the largest ever held in South Asia, while Sotheby's in London made the highest price for Modernist F.N. Souza

‘People power will overcome’: photographer in Gaza aid flotilla calls on arts workers to show solidarity

Shahidul Alam is taking part in the Thousand Madleens flotilla on behalf of the Palestinian Arts and Culture Solidarity Collective

Four years on from the Taliban takeover, Afghan women are asserting themselves through art

Having lost many opportunities and rights under the new leadership, women are finding in miniature paintings, abstract textiles and more an important means of expression

Booksreview

A tome accompanying the Lahore Biennale is a celebration of authenticity

This comprehensive reader on the second edition in 2020 considers how the independent-minded institution is placing Pakistan’s artists in an international context as well as helping them thrive in a complex political environment

Ancient art on wheels: how Mumbai's leading museum is sending miniature exhibitions by bus into the Indian countryside

CSMVS's mobile museum venture, created in collaboration with an exhibition it curated with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Berlin State Museums and the British Museum, examines the underlying connections between ancient civilisations

Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum

The Modernist artist’s son has opened a museum dedicated to his father in Karachi

Private museum in Pakistan becomes the first to honour a rich textiles heritage

The Haveli will showcase the country's traditions in Indigenous weaving, embroidery and dye work

Booksreview

Former Sotheby's chairman recounts the birth of the London art market as we know it

James Stourton's new book explores changes from the power shift to the auction houses in the mid-20th century to the excesses of the 1980s and 90s

Art marketanalysis

Long undervalued, Bangladeshi artists begin to rise at auction

Modernist paintings by artists such as Zainul Abedin and Mohammad Kibria soared past their estimates at recent sales in New York

The V&A’s Mughal exhibition traces the emergence of a ‘new art’

The show, which closes in May, highlights a golden age of pluralism under three monarchs from the house of Tamerlane

Protestsanalysis

How Bangladeshi artists played a role in their country’s ‘monsoon revolution’

Artists who had long suffered threats and censorship contributed to, and then celebrated, the downfall last year of the country’s repressive regime

Book Clubfeature

How a Persian manuscript was swapped for a Willem de Kooning owned by the Iranian government

Oliver Hoare's memoir details the story of the ambitious exchange of an Iranian masterpiece for a painting by the Abstract Expressionist