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Iran's domestic art market is proving resilient despite severe sanctions and economic hardship. In October 2025, Tehran Auction held a million-dollar sale at the Azadi Hotel in Tehran, totaling 134 trillion toman (roughly $1.5 million), featuring 120 works by leading modern and contemporary Iranian artists. The event, reported by The Art Newspaper, contrasts sharply with weak results for Iranian art at Sotheby’s and Christie’s in London, where Western demand has declined. Tehran Auction founder Ali Reza Sami-Azar notes that real domestic art spending continues to rise as more Iranians invest in art amid soaring inflation and currency collapse.

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Sharon Stone has created a new series of figurative paintings titled "Rogues Gallery," which she describes as channeling the spirits of historical figures from different eras and locations, including an enslaved individual who drowned in the East China Sea and Iranian freedom fighter Mahsa Amini. The works, made in 2025, mark a shift from her earlier abstracted landscapes and floral motifs, and were produced in her Los Angeles home studio. Stone, who began painting seriously around 2020 and has previously exhibited at C. Parker Gallery, Allouche Gallery, and Galerie Deschler Berlin, approaches the portraits as a medium for healing and confronting difficult histories, including her own family's potential involvement in enslavement.

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Despite years of political and economic turmoil, Iran’s art market is thriving

Tehran Auction, Iran's premier auction house, held a $1.5 million art sale at the Azadi Hotel in October, selling 120 works by top Iranian Modern and contemporary artists. This strong domestic performance contrasts sharply with the weak showing of Iranian art at Sotheby's and Christie's in London, where prices have slowed amid sanctions and geopolitical isolation.

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trending_up market schedule Nov 25, 2025 visibility 1 link 13 artists, 10 galleries

India’s art market is fast growing—is it also maturing?

The third edition of Art Mumbai (13-16 November) saw strong sales and record auction prices for Indian Modernists, including MF Husain's *Gram Yatra* (1953) becoming the first Indian painting to sell for over $10 million. The fair, held amid surging private wealth in India, featured leading contemporary galleries reporting up to 90% sales on opening day, with works priced from $1,000 to $300,000. A recent reduction in India's goods and service tax on art from 12% to 5% has further boosted the market.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 24, 2025 visibility 2 link 9 artists, 1 gallery

Queer sexuality in Islamic art explored in Norway exhibition

A new exhibition titled "Deviant Ornaments" opens at the National Museum (Nasjonalmuseet) of Norway in Oslo, running from 27 November 2025 to 15 March 2026. Curated by Noor Bhangu, a South Asian curator and scholar based in Norway, the show explores queer desires and practices in the visual cultures of the Islamic world, bringing together over 40 works spanning 1,000 years. It connects historical objects—such as a Safavid textile, a 19th-century armband, and 13th-century Iranian wall tiles—with works by 12 contemporary artists, including Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Alize Zorlutuna, Shahzia Sikander, Taner Ceylan, Damien Ajavon, Rah Eleh, Kasra Jalilipour, and Sa’dia Rehman. Four works are newly commissioned.

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Frieze Los Angeles has announced its 2026 exhibitor list, featuring 95 galleries from 22 countries at the Santa Monica Airport, running from February 26 to March 1. The lineup includes blue-chip names like Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, and David Zwirner, alongside local staples such as Commonwealth & Council and David Kordansky Gallery. First-time participants include El Apartamento, Bradley Ertaskiran, and Sprüth Magers returns after a hiatus. The Focus section, curated by Essence Harden, highlights galleries under 12 years old. Notable absentees include Marian Goodman Gallery, Bortolami, and Sean Kelly, while five galleries that participated in 2025 have since closed. The fair follows a challenging 2025 edition impacted by LA wildfires, which prompted withdrawals and a charity initiative.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 18, 2025 visibility 1 link 8 artists, 1 gallery

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Alison M. Gingeras, an American curator and writer, has organized a major new exhibition titled “The Woman Question: 1550–2025” at the recently opened Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The show brings together over 200 artworks spanning nearly 500 years of women’s creative production, from Renaissance figures like Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana to Baroque artists such as Elisabetta Sirani and Artemisia Gentileschi, and contemporary names like Betty Tompkins and Lisa Brice. The exhibition explores how women artists have depicted themselves, power, resistance, desire, and violence, drawing on the historical concept of the "querelle des femmes" and Linda Nochlin’s famous 1971 essay. Gingeras discusses the project on the podcast The Art Angle.

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Get closer to nature with MIA’s newest art exhibition

Miami International Airport (MIA) has opened a new art exhibition titled "Closer: Photographs by Iran Issa-Khan," on view until April 2026. The show features nature-focused photography by artist Iran Issa-Khan, displayed in the airport's public spaces as part of its ongoing arts program.

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5 Artists to Discover at Art Mumbai 2025

Art Mumbai returned for its third edition at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse on November 13, 2025, with 82 galleries—up from 50 in 2023—including international participants like Galleria Continua and Lisson Gallery. The fair saw strong sales on VIP day, with most leading Indian galleries selling the majority of their displays. Notable collectors Kiran Nadar and Kito De Boer participated in a fireside chat, where Nadar outlined plans to open a new museum space in New Delhi by early 2028. The article highlights five emerging artists to discover, including Neha Vedpathak, who uses a self-invented "plucking" technique with handmade Japanese paper.

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Best new awards & arts prize winners: November 2025

The article reports on several major arts and literary prize winners announced in November 2025. Swedish photographer Martina Holmberg won the £15,000 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize for her portrait 'Mel,' with other prizes awarded to Luan Davide Gray, Byron Mohammad Hamzah, and Hollie Fernando. Australian author Helen Garner won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for 'How to End a Story.' The Forward Poetry Prizes named joint winners Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie for best collection, while Bogdan Ablozhnyy received the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award. Historian Sunil Amrith won the British Academy Book Prize for 'The Burning Earth,' and the Women's Prize for Playwriting announced its longlist.

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