On Tuesday the chief executive of Sotheby’s, Charles Stewart, said that the auction house is ‘actively preparing’ to reopen its spaces in New York and London and looking to hold sales in New York in the week of 29 June. Meanwhile, Phillips and Christie’s have said that they are planning to hold sales in the week of 22 June.
At Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai, Indian contemporary artist Manish Nai invites viewers to reconsider the materials that surround them. In In Search of Material within Material, a solo exhibition bringing together works created between 2021 and 2026, discarded objects, industrial surfaces and familiar everyday materials become the starting point for an exploration of form, memory and transformation.