Carlie Porterfield

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

US Senator calls for investigation into MoMA trustee Leon Black’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein

The push by Senator Ron Wyden comes amid partisan disputes over the nature and extent of Epstein’s dealings with the rich and powerful

Christophe de Menil, art patron and heiress to the Menil Collection's founders, has died, aged 92

As the firstborn daughter of the Franco Texan de Menils, Christophe grew up to continue the family's legacy of arts patronage

‘Everyone's suffering right now’: New York and Los Angeles gallery Clearing will close

Olivier Babin tells The Art Newspaper that high overhead costs and the market slowdown made the business unsalvageable

With two fairs and a new festival, Aspen art scene is reaching new peaks

Famous for its high-end ski resorts, the Colorado town has become a major arts destination

‘We just wanted to do our small part’: how Texas's art community responded to deadly flash floods

Museums and commercial galleries in Austin and San Antonio have stepped up to support flood victims in the Texas Hill Country

New York’s Market Gallery evolves from Chinatown apartment to Soho pop-up

The buzzy gallery, run out of founder Adam Zhu’s renovated storage shed, launched an inaugural group show on Mercer Street

Art Basel Miami Beach to welcome 41 new exhibitors

A handful of galleries are not returning for the 2025 edition

Art Dealers Association of America cancels 2025 edition of The Art Show fair in New York

The ADAA sent an email to members this week saying the decision was made with “long-term sustainability” in mind

‘Free art, with strings attached’: Zero Art Fair’s first edition in New York City puts a new spin on the old fair format

More than $500,000 worth of art traded hands free of charge last week with a contract that makes collecting more accessible and helps ease artists’ burden of storing old work