Kabir Jhala

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Seoul gets another art fair as Art Busan opens design-led outpost

The Korean capital’s status as an art world hub will be bolstered by Define Seoul

Scenes from the 2021 fatal shooting incident on Alec Baldwin’s film set reimagined at Marseille fair

Alex Margo Arden’s paintings at Art-o-rama raise questions about the responsibility of artists when depicting tragic real-life events

Eye-opening filings in Lisa Schiff lawsuit reveal dozens of new claims and more than 100 missing works

The embattled art adviser is facing two lawsuits accusing her of running a "Ponzi scheme" and defrauding her clients

Barbicaninterview

Shanay Jhaveri—the Barbican Centre’s first non-British head of visual arts—reveals his plans for the London institution

The Indian curator, appointed a year after a racism dispute at the centre, hopes to diversify audiences and expand the presence of art across the Brutalist complex

South Asia’s highest exhibition of land art debuts at 12,000 ft in the Himalayas

The site-specific show addresses the ecological crisis facing the Indian region of Ladakh—and, subtly, the politics behind it

Art and Bollywood go off to the races: Mumbai to get first major art fair this November

Art Mumbai, run by the founders of one of India’s biggest auction houses, will see around 50 galleries take part in its inaugural edition

Frieze buys The Armory Show and Expo Chicago

The London-based franchise expands further into the US market with the acquisition of two of its largest fairs

Simon Lee Gallery enters administration following tax dispute

The London commercial gallery is now under the control of insolvency practitioners after a petition from Barclays Bank

From the 'Bloomsbury stud' to unseen works by Winifred Nicholson—our pick of London Art Week

The annual eclectic gallery trail finishes on Friday, with 51 participants to see around central London

Art marketpreview

New tax break to ease international galleries into Tokyo Gendai's inaugural edition

“Japan’s art market is behind where logic dictates it should be,” says the fair's co-founder Magnus Renfrew

Gallery Weekend Berlin selects Antonia Ruder as new director

Her predecessor, Maike Cruse, recently left the role to lead Art Basel's flagship Swiss fair

Art marketanalysis

Sultry Klimt portrait smashes European auction record, selling for £85.3m in London

The night's star lot made up nearly half of the £190.3m total for Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening auction

Frieze turns 20: London fair teams up with star artists from Tracey Emin to Alvaro Barrington for anniversary edition

Eight artists have been invited to select one of their peers for solo stands at this year's fair

For India's biggest private collector, David Adjaye designs his 'most advanced museum concept' yet

The architect's vision for the new Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi, opening 2026, honours India's multiple cultures and religions at a time of heightened nationalist politics

Sin Wai Kin's films challenge gender binaries and fascist Italian architecture

The Turner Prize-nominated artist-filmmaker discusses their current solo show in Rome and award-winning solo stand at Art Basel

Baselnews

Basel to get new cultural venue in former mayonnaise factory

Pop-up arts programme from Basel Social Club comes ahead of major regeneration initiative in the city

Inside the Kabinett: our top five picks from the new Art Basel section

The mini-presentations, which launched in Miami Beach before heading to Hong Kong, aim to diversify what's on offer at the fair

Exhibitionsinterview

High voltage: P. Staff on their show full of live wires, acid and blood at Kunsthalle Basel

The multimedia artist discusses their biggest show to date, including a series of unnerving interventions into the museum’s architecture

'I decide to buy a work of art as soon as it aligns with my gut, heart and bank balance': James R. Hedges IV on his strategy for collecting

The leading Warhol photography collector explains why divorce papers stopped him buying a Vija Celmins painting and reveals Basel’s best party location

Is Liste art fair’s under-40s rule starting to feel its age?

Amid a market that increasingly worships the young while women and those from the Global South fight for a place at the table, the Basel fair’s policy faces calls for a rethink

What sold on Art Basel's first VIP day: from a $22.5m Bourgeois spider to a huge $2.5m Richter sculpture

Despite fears of a market slowdown, clients were spending at a packed Art Basel

Kabir Jhala. With additional reporting by Anny Shaw

Feeling the burn: artist hits the gym as mercury rises in Basel

Augustas Serapinas creates the ultimate Art Basel workout using plaster cast pieces

White Cube is latest Western gallery to open in Seoul

Meanwhile Esther Schipper will stage a show of Korean artists across in Seoul and Berlin this summer, and Thaddaeus Ropac is doubling its gallery space in the South Korean capital

The hottest emerging shows to see during London Gallery Weekend

From digital avatar tapestries to an alpaca wool peephole, here is the best of the capital's cutting-edge art scene

Art Basel prepares for first fair under new team, while Volta Basel searches for a new director

New structure at Art Basel will see separate directors assigned to each show, while Volta Basel is without a leader after Kamiar Maleki’s departure for Photo London

Ivorynews

UK government to extend ivory ban to include hippos, sperm whales, narwhals, orcas and walruses

Ministers hope to close loopholes that see aquatic mammals vulnerable to poaching, but dealers in antique scrimshaw works of art say it will destroy their business