Carlie Porterfield
Blue-chip galleries report steady stream of eight-figure deals on Art Basel's second day
Hauser & Wirth sells Georgia O’Keeffe painting for $13.5m
San Francisco gallery capitalises on Leonora Carrington’s auction success
Fairgoers flock to stand dedicated to the Surrealist artist after Sotheby’s sale of painting last month for $28.5m
In pictures: Design Miami comes to Basel
The design fair's Grela Orihuela picks out her favourites, from circular sofas to lost sheep
Art Basel shrugs off ‘doom-porn’ talk with blockbuster first day of sales
VIPs prove that they came to town to buy, not just to “eat the sausage in the courtyard”
'The missed opportunities show you how important it is to be brave': Carolin Scharpff-Striebich on trusting your instinct
The German collector on how a sleepless night is a sure sign that an acquisition is imminent, and why she has a soft spot for Pieter Bruegel the Elder
'Almost everyone I talk to has an interesting story and something to teach me': Ryan Zurrer on getting the most out of Art Basel
The venture capitalist, an early champion of digital art through his collective 10F1, admits that his heart belongs to his home city of Zug, Switzerland
Christie’s reportedly planning layoffs
Rival Sotheby’s recently entered a consultation period ahead of redundancies
The Armory Show lines up 235 galleries for 30th edition, including 55 first-time exhibitors
The fair, now in its second iteration since being acquired by Frieze, remains New York's largest
Douglas Chrismas, founder of Los Angeles’s Ace Gallery, found guilty of embezzlement
The longtime California art dealer is facing up to 15 years in prison
More than 600 artefacts worth a total of €60m are repatriated to Italy from the US
Italian authorities are using artificial intelligence to identify works of art up for sale that may have been stolen or trafficked
Brooke Lampley leaves Sotheby’s to join Gagosian in latest high-profile auction departure
The auction house's global chairman will leave at the end of the month
Collector Ron Perelman sold $963m worth of art to pay off debt
Recently unsealed court filings show 71 works by artists like Basquiat, Twombly and Giacometti were unloaded over a two-year period
Art world power players reportedly encouraged New York mayor to send police to pro-Palestine student protests
Chat logs from a private WhatsApp group created by billionaire Barry Sternlicht were leaked to the Washington Post last week
Native American curator sues Chicago Blackhawks professional hockey team for fraud, sexual harassment
Nina Sanders claims she was hired as a consultant for the team to “pacify resistance” to the Chicago Blackhawks’ use of a Native American name and imagery
New York dealer Annina Nosei donates catalogues to Magazzino Italian Art
The gallery catalogues range from 1986 to 2005
Phillips's evening auction in New York notches $72.3m, buoyed by two fresh Basquiat paintings
The sale's hammer total fell short of its estimate, but also represented an increase of 24% over the equivalent auction in 2023
Christie’s website brought down by hackers days before marquee spring auctions
The auction giant’s web address currently redirects to a placeholder page where telephone numbers for its various offices are listed
New York’s Independent art fair delivers an ‘adrenaline shot’ for dealers and collectors
Prices at the fair are ticking up, but that did not stop several galleries from selling out their stands during the VIP preview
President Biden forgives $6bn in loans for students of defunct Art Institutes
The eight art and design colleges closed without warning last September
Truth and post-truth in American art explored in new show in Rome
Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, the works in the Palazzo Barberini exhibition come from the collection of the luxury retail magnate Tony Salamé
A possibly record-breaking painting by Martin Wong and a woollen work by John Olsen: our pick of the May sales
Plus, a $20m-$30m Fontana and a painting from Basquiat’s most valuable year
‘Art-world passport office’ at 1-54 fair in New York seeks to highlight migration issues
The project, devised by the cultural platform artHARARE, enables a metaphorical journey across the international circuit
‘It has all the capacity to move somebody’: fibre art celebrated in pop-up New York show
The exhibition, staged in the historic South Street Seaport district, brings textile works to an 18th-century warehouse
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair marks a decade in New York
This year’s showcase for contemporary African art is bigger than ever
Haystack painting by Claude Monet could sell for more than $30m at Sotheby’s New York
Sotheby’s will sell a rare Monet haystack five years after a similar work broke the artist’s record at auction
Forge Project art space in Upstate New York transitions into a non-profit
The Indigenous social-justice art initiative has transferred ownership as part of an organisational restructuring
Venice Biennale 2024: the worst art on show in the city
There's a lot to see during this year's edition of the city-wide event, so we've rounded up a few things you might want to skip
Who owns the superyacht docked outside the 2024 Venice Biennale?
The Sea Pearl has been a looming presence along the water during this week's preview
US pavilion features first Indigenous artist to have solo show
Jeffrey Gibson mixes Native American motifs with modern materials to investigate issues of identity and history
Palestine references abound at the 60th Venice Biennale
As the war between Israel and Hamas intensifies, artists in Venice use their work to make statements