
Anna Brady
Second time lucky for Fine Art Bourse?
Online platform aiming to undercut traditional auction house fees relaunches after folding in 2015 when it ran out of funds weeks before first sale
Object lessons: a poetic take on decay, a goddess drawn by a cult favorite and a rare study by Peter Blake
Our pick of highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions
Christie's adds London auctions in October, raises buyer's premium
House sees "great potential for growth" for lots under £1m in the photograph and design categories during Frieze week
Private View: Jordan Casteel, Leon Polk Smith and Jack Whitten
Noteworthy exhibitions at commercial galleries, from emerging names to forgotten talents
Surfacing on the Block: a Finn Juhl coffee table and playwright Edward Albee's collection
Spotlight on this month’s most distinctive auctions
Italy relaxes stringent export laws for post-war art
New legislation eases movement of post-war Italian art out of the country, lifts restrictions on photography in state archives
Closure of South Kensington saleroom marks end of an era
As Christie’s chases new markets, the middle is a casualty. Where will the trade move?
Christie's South Kensington: the training ground where an industry learned its game
Art world power players add their voices to the eulogy for the well-loved secondary saleroom
City-wide festival aims to revive Venice’s glass industry
Inaugural Venice Glass Week will include more than 140 exhibitions on the delicate medium
Lost Keith Vaughan photographs go on show in London, capturing illicit love at a time when homosexuality was still illegal
Images, to be shown at Austin Desmond Fine Art, depict British artist with group of male friends on holiday at Pagham Beach in West Sussex
Sotheby’s second-quarter income down 14%, but revenue is up as auction house invests in digital
Chief executive Tad Smith hints at reining in costs through automation and efficiency cuts, and plans to grow jewellery, wine and art advisory businesses
Christie’s to hold first Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art sale in London
Auction house cuts Dubai October series as it looks to “internationalise” the sector's market
Fundraising auction of Haitian art tests the water
Piasa’s dedicated sale will benefit island’s Le Centre d’art which was decimated in 2010 earthquake
Christie’s Impressionist and Modern sale falls short of goal but beats last year’s result by nearly 500%
Max Beckmann’s Birds’ Hell sells for a record £32m, with new highs also notched for Hannah Höch and Georges Vantongerloo
Kandinsky record falls twice in patchy Sotheby’s sale
With three lots making over £20m with fees, Sotheby’s long-winded Impressionist & Modern Art auction improves on 2016 but falls just short of a stiff estimate
Object lessons: a late Shang dynasty bronze wine vessel, a Ming dynasty dish and a sculpture by Niamh Barry
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs
Object lessons: from photographs of Nasa missions to an explicitly sexual Roman sculpture
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs
Object lessons: from Leonora Carrington's unseen works to Sir William Tate's watercolour by Burne-Jones
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs
Object lessons: from an early John Piper gouache at London Art Fair to a gold leaf cabinet by Paul Evans
Our pick of highlights from this week's fairs and auctions
Object lessons: from Paris street scenes to an ancient Egyptian statue of Sekhmet
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions
Object lessons: an elaborate sketch by Constable and a colourful square by Josef Albers
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions
Object lessons: from a monumental Art Deco sculpture to a German Symbolist painting
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions
Object lessons: from Cartier-Bresson Spanish street scene to Bowie's sculptural Auerbach
Our pick of highlights from the week's auctions and Paris Photo
Object lessons: from Pissarro's rare colour print to Avedon's slaughterhouse worker
Our pick of highlights from the week's auctions and Asian Art in London
Post-Brexit fears calmed as buyers take advantage of weak pound
In London, low estimates and favourable exchange rates boost contemporary profits… but at the Italian sales, fewer stand-out lots bring results down from last year’s high
No superstars but some fresher faces at Sotheby’s Italian sales
The auction house aims to introduce buyers to artists who are not yet household names
Record for Pino Pascali at Christie’s Italian sale
Arte Povera artist's Code di Delfino led London auction, selling for £2.2m
In pictures: PAD London
These six works provide a taster of PAD’s tenth anniversary offerings, from Modern and decorative art to tribal art, antiquities and design
Object lessons: from a pope's Mannerist cabinet to the Reagans' all-American snow scene
Our pick from this week's auctions in Paris and New York
Object lessons: from a $4m Chinese emperor's handscroll to Giacometti's mouse stools
Our pick of highlights from the week's auctions and art fairs