The former Labour MP sides with Science Museum group's director Ian Blatchford in saying companies such as BP can 'be part of the solution' to climate change

New commercial gallery shows—from Baroque blackness in Chicago to flying saucers in London

Timothy Sammons misled clients over sales of works by artists including Picasso

Trade condemns the move and prepares for mayhem of no-deal Brexit

British art dealer sentenced to up to 12 years after pleading guilty to fraud and grand larceny in the New York State Supreme Court

The late French artist’s phallic bronzes are not as easy to home as many of her other works, but it is the spiders that remain the most coveted— and hardest to come by

Egyptian authorities had tried to stop the sale claiming that the 3,000 year old quartzite sculpture should be repatriated

Five lots from the DFS founder Graham Kirkham's collection made up almost half of the value of the £56.3m London sale, which was led by a late Turner

Olyvia Kwok launches series of invitation only events in London and New York offering financing against big-ticket works for collectors looking to circumvent auctions

New commercial gallery shows—from a sense of spirituality in Liverpool to Long Island loving in New York

Our pick of highlights from London Art Week exhibitions and auctions, including an export-barred Renaissance cabinet and an uncharacteristically cheery Ribera

France's Gazette Drouot claims that Hill might have bought the painting and it could be headed for the Met in New York, according to a source

Sale raises $1.3m for new heritage museum dedicated to the history of Jeddah's historical district

Emphasis on "storytelling" and making connections at the cross-collecting fair this year, chief executive says. So we created some tenuous links of our own

Monet's waterlilies and Modigliani's portrait of an unknown boy lead the 25-lot sale, and new record made for Austrian artist Alfred Kubin's haunting drawing

Early Schiele drawing is the low-key star of an unremarkable sale, topped by a flashy Picasso

French-Israeli media billionaire Patrick Drahi's company BidFair USA buys firm from shareholders

Our pick of items from auctions and fairs around the world over the next fortnight

Johannesburg-based FNB Joburg fair has been bought by its former director Mandla Sibeko

As the New York Times bans satirical illustrations, Art Basel has plenty on show, from the 1920s to today

The Belgian art collector tells us what he's bought and why he loves it

The first rule of art fairs is don't talk about auctions—but sometimes they can benefit artists and their dealers

Being a mother has been cast as career suicide by Tracey Emin and Marina Abramovic. We speak to four women in the art world who beg to differ

A truly environmentally friendly art world requires that we give up the 'freedom, privilege and progress to which we are so accustomed'

South African gallery is first to be confirmed for new Cork Street redevelopment which has been empty since it was finished last year

Continuing Abstraction show will run off-site throughout the fair, featuring artists such as Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Theaster Gates

She started off as an apprentice clown and did a stint as a currency trader, but it’s as a dealer in works of art in the vanguard of social change that Dominique Lévy has found her true calling

Our pick of highlights for sale over the next fortnight

New commercial gallery shows—from notions of black culture in London to immigrant identity in Los Angeles

Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions and fairs