Dada’s home: organisations in France and the US launch vast Marcel Duchamp research portal
The Duchamp research portal uses archival documents, correspondence and a wealth of images to paint a picture of the artist’s life and work in the US and France.
A Mexican millionaire is building a museum to house his art collection, and using public funds to do it
Mauricio Fernández Garza first proposed the structure, which is a replica of his mansion in San Pedro Garza García, near Monterrey, when he was mayor of the well-heeled town
A French surgeon tried to sell an X-ray of a former patient’s bullet wound from the Bataclan attack as an NFT
The patient survived the November 2015 Islamic State attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, but never gave permission for the image of her wound to be sold
Pace will launch a project space in Tribeca, with founder Arne Glimcher at the helm
“Gallery 125 Newbury is about expanding my own story...about going full circle, back to the little gallery I once had,” Glimcher said of the new space in Manhattan's booming art district
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal library for sale at Bonhams
The sale traces her intellectual development from a law student and avid reader to one of the most recognizable justices on the Supreme Court.
Long walk to nowhere: auction of items owned by Nelson Mandela cancelled due to brewing dispute in South Africa
Proceeds from the sale were meant to fund a memorial garden and museum around the freedom fighter’s burial site
Banksy mural 'gifted' to East Anglia town has been sold to private buyer after being removed by the owners
The mural was one of ten works peppered across English seaside towns and could have been street artist's way of raising the area’s profile
London Art Fair is the latest to postpone 2022 edition due to Omicron surge
The fair is the most recent casualty of the new Covid-19 variant, moving its opening back by three months
Sotheby’s faces class-action lawsuit alleging mistreatment and misclassification of workers
Lawyers for the auction house are trying to dismiss the complaint, which they call 'devoid of factual allegations,' but they could be facing a classic Catch-22.
In latest feud over Robert Indiana’s legacy, Morgan Art Foundation claims publisher hid thousands of artworks and lied under oath
The foundation claims publisher Michael McKenzie “made a mockery of the discovery process” and “repeatedly thumbed his nose” at the court
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Francesca Woodman at Marian Goodman to Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory
Sotheby’s sales for 2021 surpass $7.3bn, the highest total in company history
The firm’s sales were bolstered by a sharp increase in online bidders, who accounted for 92% of all bids this year
The Armory Show’s 2022 edition will have a distinct focus on Latin American art
For the first time in its four-decade history, the fair’s curatorial programming will be led by experts in Latinx and Latin American art
Andy Warhol Foundation petitions US Supreme Court to review ruling over Prince portrait
A lawyer for the foundation says a review by the Supreme Court of a lower court’s decision would “reaffirm the importance of free artistic expression”
Frieze Los Angeles reveals details of its 2022 edition
With 100 galleries and a new public art programme, the fair is moving ahead in a new location despite the Omicron variant’s creeping influence over the art fair stratosphere
Meryl Streep, Zadie Smith and others sign letter demanding Cuban government stop persecuting artists
The letter, signed by more than 300 well-known figures in the arts, adds pressure to calls for the Cuban government to let artists live and work freely
NFT project sells for $91.8m, debatably achieving the highest price ever for a work by a living artist
Sales of the new project by Pak point to increasing gamification in the NFT market, though the superlative total sum comes with a number of caveats
‘The pandemic isn’t going anywhere, but the world keeps spinning’: galleries make hay while they can at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Timed entry meant a slower start but there is still an appetite for buying, despite the Omicron variant, at America's glitziest art fair
Wanna shop for art like an NBA star?
Bronx gallerist Set Free Richardson is helping the stars of the basketball court tell a KAWS from a Kehinde Wiley
Jorge Pardo: ‘I don’t draw by hand anymore’
The Cuban American artist on the advanced technology he uses to create his drawings and objects
Collector’s Eye: Cricket Taplin
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
Handmade tales: collage, textile and assemblage pieces abound at Art Basel in Miami Beach
NFTs may be the newest thing but physical objects still hold a warm place in the art world's heart
George Clinton: a journey from funk protagonist to art practitioner
As in his music, feeling and community are fundamental to the Parliament-Funkadelic frontman’s paintings
Collector’s Eye: Amy and John Phelan
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
Highlights from December’s auctions: from an unseen Schiele to the first ever postage stamp
Our pick of the works coming up for sale in London and Munich
Our pick of exhibitions to see during Art Basel in Miami Beach
From an overdue retrospective devoted to the Jewish painter Maryan to little-known installations by Betye Saar
Sotheby's triple-header New York auction night notches up $234.2m with artist records for Lisa Brice, Maria Berrio and seven others
The auction house also accepted cryptocurrency on two works by Banksy and sold a rare copy of the US Constitution for $41m
'I did it for the money, your honour': art dealer Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty to fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison
The 34-year-old was arrested while in hiding on the Pacific island Vanuatu
Pace to launch a custom-built NFT platform
Pace Verso launches on 22 November with digital artworks from Lucas Samaras’s 'XYZ' series.
Frida Kahlo breaks record for a Latin American artist in Sotheby's $238m Modern art sale
While the auction's star lots included the $34.9m Kahlo and four Monets, the most aggressive bidding was on works by Alexander Calder and Pierre Soulages