Kabir Jhala

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London’s ICA has new role as party central

Contemporary arts venue kicks up its heels with a lively bash to launch the latest issue of gay underground magazine Butt

In town for Gallery Weekend Berlin? Here are six shows not to miss

From a video Hito Steyerl pulled from Documenta 15 to an off-site karaoke installation in a car

‘Duplicative’ or discarded? Whitney's sale of more Hopper works from historic bequest comes under scrutiny

Questions resurface over New York museum’s rationale for consigning works by the artist to auction

Sotheby's slam dunk: Michael Jordan sneakers sell for record $2.2m

The Air Jordan 13s were worn by the basketball star during his last year with the Chicago Bulls

White Cube founder Jay Jopling’s daughter Angelica opens London gallery

Emerging art space Incubator is “totally siloed” from her father’s business, she says

Bonhams closes gender pay gap by 39%, but Sotheby’s and Christie’s lag behind

UK’s public institutions continue to provide a greater degree of equity—though this is not even across all pay brackets

Nan Goldin joins Gagosian, leaving Marian Goodman gallery after five years

With newfound backing from the world's biggest gallery, is the activist-photographer's art market poised for take off?

India’s ‘first installation artist’ Vivan Sundaram has died, aged 79

Multi-disciplinary practitioner was inspired by the 1968 Paris demonstrations to organise artist and student group protests during Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule of 1975-77

Credit Suisse’s art partnerships up in the air after emergency UBS takeover

With a major art collection and multiple museum sponsorship deals, the collapse of the defunct Swiss bank is likely to have ramifications for the art world

Leading Indian Modernist SH Raza gets first public museum retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris

The monographic show spans a 60-year career, from his beginnings in Bombay to later life in France

'Museum-quality' works by Bill Woodrow pulled from Saatchi & Saatchi collection sale after last-minute intervention

Eight sculptures were being offered by auction house Roseberys at prices so low they would have been "destructive to his career", according to the artist Richard Deacon

Report into Documenta 15 backs claims of antisemitism

The 2022 edition of the German exhibition became mired in controversy after criticism that some works included antisemitic images

Chiara Zampetti Egidi. With additional reporting by Kabir Jhala
Art marketpreview

From a rediscovered Montelupo statue to a never publicly displayed Richter painting: our pick of the highlights from March's sales

Plus, a painting by an overlooked Surrealist woman artist, and a postcard by M.F. Husain, made for a friend over tea and kebabs

Kandinsky makes £37m auction record at a procedural but solid Sotheby's London evening sale

Strong Asian bidding helped secure the success of the 58-lot two-part auction, which brought the house £147m

Christie's 20th and 21st century evening sales in London represent a 32% decrease from 2022

Two-part sale spanning Impressionism to the ultra-contemporary had few headline lots—but Brexit is not to blame, auction house specialists maintain

'Fatal for the French art market': dealers decry new EU sales tax that could wipe out Paris's booming commercial scene

The directive will make selling art in France much more expensive—and imperil its post-Brexit position as the EU's market hub

The 21 galleries making their Art Basel debut this year—and what they're bringing

This is the first edition of the Swiss fair under the leadership of new chief executive Noah Horowitz

Mike Nelson at Hayward Gallery: behind the London institution’s ‘most technically challenging’ exhibition to date

The Turner-Prize nominee’s vast installations have been painstakingly recreated for his first survey show—we speak to the team who made it happen

Is an influx of Latin American collectors turning Madrid into the art world’s next Miami?

As the Spanish capital attracts a moneyed contingent from Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, regional galleries are following suit

Manchester, Mumbai, the moon: Jitish Kallat's huge spiral installation in London connects climate change and the cosmos

Indian artist has staged his first UK public commission in Somerset House's Neo-Classical courtyard

Are young collectors buying at India Art Fair?

Concerted pushes to engage with a new generation can be found at the fair as the top end of the market appears safe, if not static

Bonhams owner floats sale of auction house at $1bn

Epiris private equity group, which owns the auction house, has reportedly approached JP Morgan Chase & Co to advise on the deal

Biggest-ever India Art Fair aims to diversify pool of South Asian collectors

With the top level of the region's art market back in rude health, the Delhi fair is doubling down on fostering a new generation of buyers

Huge earthquakes in Turkey and Syria devastate heritage sites including 2,000-year-old castle

Gaziantep Castle has been heavily damaged by quakes that have killed more than 1,000 people

LGBTQnews

Controversial UK politician slams Tate for hosting children's drag queen storytime session

Conservative Party peer Emma Nicholson has lambasted the London museum for "propaganda" in open letter

Prophet Muhammad image controversy rages on as US university staff demand president's resignation

After a professor was dismissed for showing the depictions, faculty have voted that Fayneese Miller should step down over mishandling the issue

Early Freud beachscape painted on holiday with artist John Craxton—former friend, possible lover and bitter enemy—to be auctioned for £3.5m

Christie's will offer Scillionian Beachscape alongside a late garden scene by Freud, both of which were once in the collection of renowned patron Simon Sainsbury

Mumbai's commercial gallery scene undergoes major 'post-pandemic' expansion

India's leading dealers have added or opened locations in the city—but newer independent spaces are fewer on the ground