Kabir Jhala

London

Art Market Editor at The Art Newspaper

Art market editor of @theartnewspaper and not much else

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Articles

In Basel, alternative art fairs spring up in new places

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

The number of satellite selling events in Basel is growing, as dealers respond to an ever more overcrowded field by offering alternative modes of engaging with art. The latest is Maison Clearing , a pop-up group exhibition by the New York and Los Angeles-based Clearing gallery.
What does a so-called ‘buyer’s market’ mean for Art Basel sales?

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

Spend a day at any art fair asking the trade how business is going, and you will be rewarded with many strong opinions but few solid conclusions. This is doubly the case in a fracturing market that is, depending on who you believe, either in major recalibration, total freefall or approaching an exciting new frontier.
Sculptural works by emerging artists win Baloise Art Prize

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

The Baloise Art Prize, given to two presentations at Art Basel’s Statements section, has this year been awarded to the London-based artist Rhea Dillon and the Lebanese Canadian artist Joyce Joumaa. With Soft Opening gallery, Dillon shows Leaning Figures, a series of wall-based sculptural works for which she has replicated cut-crystal plates, casting them in resin mixed with molasses and soil from Jamaica.
In tough times for dealers, Art Basel debuts a section for new works

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

Amid soaring costs, softened sales and a saturated market, art fairs are increasingly under pressure to refine their offerings to their clients—the dealers. Art Basel is this year introducing a section called Premiere, which invites galleries to exhibit presentations of work made in the past five years by up to three artists, staged around a loose curatorial concept. The ten exhibitors in the inaugural section are typically smaller to mid-sized galleries presenting mid-career artists.
Which galleries are returning to Frieze London and Frieze Masters 2025-and which are not?

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

This October, almost 290 galleries will set up shop in Regent's Park for Frieze London and Frieze Masters, both taking place between 15 to 19 October. For it's 22nd edition, Frieze London will welcome a little over 160 exhibitors, including global blue-chip dealerships like Gagosian, Pace, Goodman and Sprüth Magers and leading London galleries like The Approach and Corvi-Mora.
Paris gallery directors join forces to launch ‘open-ended’ advisory

3 weeks ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

As the art trade continues to splinter in search of new models, two established dealers are striking out together to form a multi-pronged art business. NG, which comprises a traditional advisory based in Paris with a roving exhibition programme, as well as collection and foundation management services, has been founded by Samy Ghiyati and Nicolas Nahab, both of whom previously worked as senior directors of major commercial galleries.
In Dubai, the art-world panel discussion gets a sporty makeover

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

The art world panel talk has become so ubiquitous that its format is rarely questioned. Arranging speakers in a line invokes a sense of the collegial and the sterile surroundings underline the fallacious assumption that an empirical conclusion must be drawn by the end. Enter Crit Club, a roving debate series that places two art-world figures face to face in a sporting style arena, to hash out a question.
Marlene Dumas’s $13.6m semi-nude breaks auction record for a living female artist

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

“It’s a tough market, we’re not expecting fireworks,” Christie’s chairperson Guillaume Cerutti told The Art Newspaper moments before the auction house’s 21st century evening sale began. Cerutti’s muted forecast was proven right by the end of the thin, 38-lot auction, which made $79m ($96.5m with fees)—just within the revised presale estimate of $77m to $114m (all estimates are calculated without fees), but below the original $82m low estimate that included lots that were ultimately withdrawn.
British MP Patrick Spencer charged with sexual assaults at London art world haunt the Groucho

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Kabir Jhala

A British politician has been charged with two counts of sexual assault involving two women at the Groucho, a London member’s club owned by the founders of Hauser & Wirth gallery.
New York : les records pour des artistes femmes surréalistes pimentent les ventes de Christie’s

1 month ago | artnewspaper.fr | Kabir Jhala

Quelques heures avant le coup d’envoi des ventes de printemps de Christie’s à New York, l’annonce d’une détente temporaire entre la Chine et les États-Unis — qui prévoit une réduction des droits de douane entre les deux pays pour les 90 prochains jours — est tombée. « J’ai ressenti un certain soulagement », a déclaré Bonnie Brennan, nouvelle directrice générale de Christie’s, à propos de cette dernière évolution du contexte politique et économique mondial.