Kabir Jhala

Kabir Jhala is the Deputy Art Market Editor at The Art Newspaper

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Following David Velasco's dramatic dismissal, Tina Rivers Ryan is named Artforum's next editor-in-chief

A curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, she brings a focus on digital and hopes that the publication will "participate in activism"

Art marketanalysis

Global art market value fell by 4% in 2023 amid ‘inflation and wars’, Art Basel/UBS report finds

Last year saw a drop in sales of ultra high-value works but an increase in trading volume

More works pulled from Barbican show over Gaza 'censorship' row

Artists Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit will remove their work from major textile survey, after two collectors withdraw their loans over centre's decision to not host talk on Palestine and the Holocaust

Auctionsanalysis

Christie’s marathon evening sales in London make a within-estimate £163m

The 20th/21st century and Art of the Surreal auctions were up 18.5% by value on their March 2023 versions

Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary evening sale in London makes 40% less than last year

The auction house made £82m before fees and set records for Etel Adnan and Takako Yamaguchi

Collectors withdraw works from Barbican show after centre pulls its support for talk on Israel-Hamas war

Quilts by Loretta Pettway have been removed from a major textile survey at the London institution over accusations of “censorship and repression”

Art Basel Hong Kong finally back to pre-pandemic size—what’s changed since 2019?

The city’s art ecosystem is rapidly expanding, but an economic slowdown across China and continued political interference from Beijing could mean stormy seas ahead

Art Dubaianalysis

Israel-Hamas war is front and centre at Art Dubai

The fair's Global South focus enables galleries to platform art about Palestine at a crucial moment

Dubai’s art spaces venture beyond Alserkal Avenue

New galleries are opening up outside of the city’s traditional art hub—even in shopping malls

Collector Fady Jameel on the transformation of the art scenes in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates

The Art Jameel founder tells us how he juggles collecting for himself and for the foundation

Simon Lee gallery’s £10m debt revealed in insolvency report

Records show the London gallery owes artists more than £1m—while US dealer Stefan Simchowitz demands return of consigned works

Mumbaiblog

Blockbuster Pop art show in Mumbai marks a new type of exhibition for India

Pop: Fame, Love, Power at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre is an unprecedented but surface-level survey for a broad audience

Indiaanalysis

‘Gangbusters’ domestic economy sees prices rise at India Art Fair

The region’s previous art market boom and bust has some at the New Delhi event questioning whether this new wave can be sustained

Art marketpreview

For the first time in its 15 years, New Delhi’s India Art Fair has competition

The event continues to innovate—including a design section for the first time this year—as a new Mumbai-based fair ups the game for the South Asia region

Lawrence Lek on the pitfalls of artists making work about artificial intelligence

Lek has taken over a disused mall in Berlin for his latest speculative fiction show on self-driving cars

Singapore’s Art SG doubles down on VIP outreach ahead of smaller sophomore edition

Fair hopes to position itself as the natural art market hub for the Asia Pacific region

Art marketanalysis

Mumbai Gallery Weekend opens to a city primed for market ascendancy

The event’s largest edition welcomes new participants and marks a moment of consolidation for the financial capital’s established dealers

Eminent New Delhi gallery Nature Morte to open outpost in Mumbai

A solo show by Subodh Gupta will inaugurate the space, located in the gallery hub district of Colaba, this month

India's first family of art looks back over 60 years of history and politics

Anniversary exhibition at Mumbai's oldest gallery, Chemould Prescott Road, dusted off the archives, featuring artists such as Mithu Sen and Atul Dodiya

Christie's projects 26.1% decline in sales in 'paradoxical' 2023

An exceptional 2022 buoyed by the $1.6bn collection of Paul Allen has proved a tough act to follow—but private sales are on the rise

Rediscovered panels by proto-Renaissance master Lorenzetti soar at auction

A painting depicting Pope Sylvester I made €3m, while a portrayal of Saint Helena more than doubled its high estimate, selling for €1.6m

Hampstead Heath's notorious gay cruising spot recreated for London exhibition

Trevor Yeung, who will represent Hong Kong at the next Venice Biennale, considers the unspoken language of public sex for his Gasworks solo show

Florida’s mega-rich influx keeps spirits high for Art Basel’s mighty Miami fair

Art Basel Miami Beach shrugs off the digital downturn, its main rival’s US expansion and culture war worries

Emalin gallery doubles down on east London, opening second Shoreditch location

The new space will be located in an 18th-century building that is among the neighbourhood’s oldest

Frieze to sponsor next British pavilion at Venice Biennale

This is first time an art fair has funded a national exhibition at the Biennale

British art market yet to reap ‘Brexit dividends’, new report suggests

Clare McAndrew's British Art Market in 2023 survey shows a growing gulf between UK and US art markets, prompting key players to lobby government