Carlie Porterfield

Buyer of Maurizio Cattelan's $12.1m gold toilet is Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

The US oddity emporium and tourist attraction franchise is “flush with excitement”, according to a statement

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Record $236.3m Klimt leads Sotheby’s first night of auctions in Breuer Building

The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder

Print dealers' association expands to include gallerists specialised in drawings

Members of the IFPDA "overwhelmingly voted in favour" of the shift, the first major change to the association’s bylaws in decades

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This month’s New York auctions could bring up to $2.3bn

Estimates are up by more than 40% over last year’s November sales, driven in large part by Sotheby’s consignments

Lagos art fair defies macroeconomic headwinds to reach double figures

The growth of commercial galleries across Nigeria’s biggest city has been fuelled by the ongoing success of Art X Lagos—a regional hub for collectors of African art

Are you flush with cash? Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet could fetch $10m at auction

The 18-karat gold sculpture, another edition of which was used by thousands at the Guggenheim Museum, returns to the spotlight at Sotheby's

London edition of Dallas Invitational set to open at former US embassy in 2026

The Eero Saarinen-designed building will host around 15 galleries during next year's Frieze week

Rare wooden Alexander Calder mobile heads to Christie’s

An early example of Calder’s most famous creations, the work carries a record estimate of $15m to $20m

‘I had absolutely no talent’: Christopher Wool on his early struggles getting into art school

In the latest episode of The Art Newspaper's "A brush with…" podcast, the artist tells Ben Luke about an early rejection

Texas's ‘Black Artists Matter’ mural and rainbow crosswalks at risk

A directive from governor Greg Abbott to remove 'political ideologies' from the state's roadways comes amid a nationwide DEI crackdown

Putting young galleries at the front: Frieze London’s bold strategy holds

The fair continues to support emerging spaces and spotlight West African and Brazilian artists this year

Sotheby’s to sell painting from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first solo show

‘Crowns (Peso Neto)’ (1981) is estimated to fetch between $35m and $40m

Art Basel names 87 galleries taking part in inaugural Qatar fair

Strong interest has resulted in the the fair having upwards of 50% more participants than anticipated, organisers say

Aichi Triennale confronts war, memory and environmental collapse

The opening festivities for the exhibition’s timely sixth edition were marked by protests over local ties to Israel

Sotheby’s sells York Avenue headquarters ahead of move to Breuer Building

The sale will help the auction house pay down debt, chief executive Charles F. Stewart told staff in an internal email

Art Basel hires Christie's veteran for new collector and institutional relations role

Carly Murphy, who has been at Christie's since 2022 and previously worked at Sotheby's for more than a decade, will move to the fairs sector later this month

Judge rejects collector Ron Perelman's claims of $410m in damages from works that lost their ‘spark’ in fire

Perelman sued his insurers after a 2018 fire at his Hamptons home, claiming works by Warhol, Ruscha and Twombly had sustained damage

New York’s Tilton Gallery staging final exhibition after more than four decades in business

The closure comes eight years after the death of the gallery's influential founder Jack Tilton

Untitled Art Houston opens with a slew of four- and five-figure sales

The Texan fair’s inaugural edition got off to a strong start for dealers who brought more affordable works

Sotheby’s secures $120m Pritzker and $400m Lauder collections, with works by Matisse, Munch and Van Gogh

Specialists estimate the collections could collectively bring in around $520m during the upcoming auctions in New York this autumn

The sixth Aichi Triennale seeks to encompass destruction and renewal

The exhibition’s artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi says this edition does not shy away from traumatic events, but also finds strength in tales of survival

Independent 20th Century fair will move to Sotheby’s Breuer Building in 2026

The move will allow the fair to grow significantly, from around 30 exhibitors to around 50

The Armory Show jumpstarts New York art market after summer of hand-wringing

The fair is unfolding amid market jitters and following a string of gallery closures, but dealers were upbeat and reporting solid sales during the VIP preview

The new U-Haul Art Fair is pulling up in Chelsea

Exhibitors at the new fair on wheels will work out of trucks rather than from stands

The Armory Show puts spotlight on the American South

Organisers hope the fair—including a sector championing artists from the southern US and another led by an Atlanta non-profit—complicates stereotypes about the region

New Orleans artists mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina

Ferrara Showman Gallery brings together works from ten artists reflecting on two decades since the deadly storm

Jeff Koons returns to Gagosian four years after departing for Pace

The world's most expensive living artist is once again represented by the global mega-gallery

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will close Los Angeles location

The New York gallery's West Coast outpost will cease operations in September after seven years