Niru Ratnam

Gallerists facing the untenable pace of the contemporary art world are issuing impassioned statements about their cause.

Dastan's Basement just made its debut at Art Basel Hong Kong, and founder Hormoz Hematian is on a mission to build new infrastructure for Iran's art scene.

Rob Chavasse's new film joins a lineage of works exploring the shifting relationship between artists and their gallerists.

Three new exhibitions in London by artists of African descent have special resonance in a period of worrying extremism throughout Europe.

A new exhibition in London takes a cult sci-fi novel as the jumping-off point for an exploration of possible futures—not all of them dystopian—for contemporary art in China.

Lubaina Himid rose to prominence with the Black Art movement in mid-1980s Britain, but was pushed aside in favor of simpler themes and sleeker aesthetics. Now three major shows and a place on the Turner Prize shortlist are heralding a belated rethink.