Kabir Jhala

Kabir Jhala is the Acting Deputy Art Market Editor, UK at The Art Newspaper

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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

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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

Art Basel parent company MCH Group cancels Masterpiece fair in London

"Escalating costs and a decline in the number of international exhibitors" were cited as factors in decision

Professor who was controversially fired for 'Islamophobia' after showing depictions of Prophet Muhammad is named

US university's decision to dismiss employee for displaying the 14th- and 16th-century works has been described as an "egregious violation" of academic freedom

New faces and major anniversaries: art fair highlights of 2023

East Asia gains two new commercial art events and Frieze London turns 20

The art market in 2022: art fair shake ups, single owner auctions and an NFT winter

Despite headline figures of record sales, is the art world's bull market coming to an end?

Paris auction house Artcurial reports best year of sales—despite a downturn in trade of 20th- and 21st-century art

A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work

'Unprecedented' in South Asia: India's leading private art museum forms transnational partnership with Bangladesh foundation

Collaboration between Samdani Art Foundation in Dhaka and Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art brings the institutions—and the powerful collectors behind them—closer together

The Year in Art: We take a look at 2022’s biggest stories—and what they mean

Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year

Hosted by Ben Luke. With guest speakers Louisa Buck, Kabir Jhala and Benjamin Sutton. Produced by David Clack, Aimee Dawson and Henrietta Bentall
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World's smallest exhibition? The art project staging shows in storage units around the world

Since 2015, Lock Up International has created installations in the most transient and nondescript of spaces

At the last hour, Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India postpones opening citing 'organisational challenges'

Exhibition's fifth edition has been met with a number of issues, ranging from shipping delays to adverse weather

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India's Kochi-Muziris Biennale turns ten—and gears up for its long-delayed fifth edition

Curator Shubigi Rao says this edition represents the resilience of art practices that have weathered the pandemic's storm