India’s Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is taking its collection to Christie’s London this summer, though don’t expect any of its artworks to be for sale. From July 16 to August 21, the New Delhi institution will stage “The Meeting Ground,” a non-selling survey of works from its 16,000-work collection at the auction house. The show will place Indian modernists like M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, K.G. Subramanyan, and F.N. Souza, alongside contemporary South Asian artists, practitioners of Indigenous art traditions, and artists from the diaspora. Admission to the exhibition is free. Related Articles The Christie’s—Kiran Nadar linkup arrives amid an inflection point for the Indian and South Asian art markets. South Asian modern and contemporary sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s have grown in size and value in the last five years, with such sales becoming an increasing focus of Asia New New York, as Karen Ho reported for ARTnews in 2024. Auction records have been broken repeatedly recently: In March 2025, Christie’s New York sold M.F. Husain’s monumental Untitled (Gram Yatra) (1954) for $13.8 million—a new auction …