Artist was 80 years old when he began the painting of a former Tate cataloguer

New section at London fair will explore artists who railed against "the idea that genius resided solely in masculinity"

The young men, believed to be in their teens and early 20s, have been identified by artists as Kbag, Lover and Trip

Sotheby’s auction includes personal works by Hirst gifted to Dunphy, or sketched on the back of restaurant menus

Anny Shaw asks if auction houses and dealers should pay their dues to the artists from whom they profit

Works and archival material at several stands at the fair honour big names in the art world who have died this year

Works were created by the artist when he was sleeping on a friend’s couch in Manhattan

New initiatives, fair subsidies and a focus on Swiss artists help dealers to adapt

The exhibition, which opens in February, will focus on Blue and Rose Periods

Artist lands two big sales at Art Basel after record-breaking auction result

A taster of the artist’s latest project is on show at Art Basel ahead of its unveiling at Tate Modern in London

Artist mentored Boo Saville, Helen Beard and Sadie Laska, allowing them to create their largest pieces to date in his studios for Newport Street Gallery show

In a first for Iran, the Teer Art fair is set to open amid a growing but fragile market environment

Comments come after Unesco calls for “mutually acceptable” solution to 200-year-old issue

US artist says he has “nothing to do with the show”, the first to focus on this body of work in the UK

Highest price to date is $1.9m, but Steve Lazarides says some paintings have a £2m-plus price tag

Still no evening auction, but blue-chip artists make way for fresh talent in new day sale format

Blaming an ingrained culture, auction houses vow to correct imbalance in women’s pay and representation in the highest ranks

With a retrospective lighting up the Whitney, the artist behind “that” work has finally returned to town

Advisory group NM Rothschild has reportedly been brought in to oversee a possible sale of the British auction house

An inquiry has been launched into the executive director and chief curator’s professional conduct

Canadian photographer has been working with scientists to draw attention to man's impact on the planet

Hauser & Wirth show in Zürich includes loans from the Tate, the Stedelijk Museum and the Fondation Dubuffet

Painting is “one of the most important” by the Impressionist artist to be sold in London in the past 20 years

Details yet to be finalised, but the fair is also looking at how to deal with “increasingly erratic weather” after heatwave sent exhibitors into meltdown

Show honours Africa’s contribution to abstraction, beauty and politics at "a time of affirmative difference"

Artists based in Iran were absent at the opening of exhibition of historical and contemporary Iranian art this week due to Trump's travel ban

Announcement comes days after auction house reinstates buyer's premium in online sales

Painting of artist’s lover and muse comes to auction for the first time at Christie’s New York in May

Discrepancy comes under scrutiny as more than 10,000 companies submit figures to the Government Equalities Office