Art Basel parent company MCH Group cancels Masterpiece fair in London
"Escalating costs and a decline in the number of international exhibitors" were cited as factors in decision
Professor who was controversially fired for 'Islamophobia' after showing depictions of Prophet Muhammad is named
US university's decision to dismiss employee for displaying the 14th- and 16th-century works has been described as an "egregious violation" of academic freedom
New faces and major anniversaries: art fair highlights of 2023
East Asia gains two new commercial art events and Frieze London turns 20
The art market in 2022: art fair shake ups, single owner auctions and an NFT winter
Despite headline figures of record sales, is the art world's bull market coming to an end?
Paris auction house Artcurial reports best year of sales—despite a downturn in trade of 20th- and 21st-century art
A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work
'Unprecedented' in South Asia: India's leading private art museum forms transnational partnership with Bangladesh foundation
Collaboration between Samdani Art Foundation in Dhaka and Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art brings the institutions—and the powerful collectors behind them—closer together
The Year in Art: We take a look at 2022’s biggest stories—and what they mean
Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year
World's smallest exhibition? The art project staging shows in storage units around the world
Since 2015, Lock Up International has created installations in the most transient and nondescript of spaces
At the last hour, Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India postpones opening citing 'organisational challenges'
Exhibition's fifth edition has been met with a number of issues, ranging from shipping delays to adverse weather
India's Kochi-Muziris Biennale turns ten—and gears up for its long-delayed fifth edition
Curator Shubigi Rao says this edition represents the resilience of art practices that have weathered the pandemic's storm
First wooden sculpture by Die Brücke founder Erich Heckel offered at auction goes on sale in Munich for €600,000
It comes to the block alongside another wooden sculpture by Heckel's contemporary Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Tefaf appoints Bart Drenth as global managing director
The organisation's fourth leader in three years, he will oversee both Maastricht and New York events alongside chairman Hidde van Seggelen
Ukrainian Modernist masterpieces transported from Kyiv under missile fire find refuge in Madrid exhibition
Survey show at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza will open with an address by President Zelensky and a symposium calling for a European cultural deal with Ukraine
More artists leave König gallery amid 'sexual misconduct' allegations against its founder Johann König
Monica Bonvicini's departure from the gallery's roster is one of many in recent months
A timeline of the $450m Salvator Mundi: centuries of deals, disputes and drama
The Art Newspaper charts the existence of the world's most expensive work of art, from 1478 to today
Back to normal? Not quite yet—Art Basel Hong Kong reveals pared down 2023 exhibitor list and new director
Next edition will be first since the special administered region lifted mandatory quarantine—but some Covid-19 measures remain in place
Institutional critique artist Andrea Fraser joins Marian Goodman gallery—her first US commercial representation in more than a decade
For more than 30 years Fraser has used performances to draw attention to power structures within cultural organisations
New York to get major photography fair in September 2023 at Javits Centre
Photofairs New York is the sister event of Photofairs Shanghai, East Asia's largest commercial photography event
Frances Morris to leave Tate Modern in April after seven years as director
London museum's first female chief, who was pivotal in diversifying the collection and programme, departs to pursue curatorial projects related to climate change and Modernism
Painter Loie Hollowell, who is launching an NFT series to support abortion funds, discusses politics, motherhood and her market
The Contractions series, based on the artist's experience giving birth to her daughter, will be sold on the blockchain to help those affected by the overturning of Roe v. Wade
Marc Spiegler steps down as Art Basel chief after 15 years—and is replaced by a familiar face
Noah Horowitz, formerly director Americas of the art fair brand, returns as chief executive following a brief stint at Sotheby's
Eco activist attempts to glue his head to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
Dutch police have arrested three people at the Mauritshuis in The Hague
Perrotin is about to open its first Middle East space in a Dubai tax-free zone
The gallery will focus on secondary market deals with occasional contemporary art programming
Artists take to Instagram to criticise Gilbert & George’s claims that museums are now ‘woke’ and only focus on Black and women artists
Candice Breitz, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ghada Amer and Athi-Patra Ruga all spoke out against the duo on social media
A painting marketed as 'by Titian'—but also attributed to his workshop—will be offered at Sotheby's in December for £8m
The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998
Dutch foundation plans to open major new contemporary art museum in Amsterdam—with a familiar face as director
The Hartwig Art Foundation's institutional space will be run by Beatrix Ruf, the former director of the Stedelijk Museum
Paris Internationale fair once positioned itself as a cooler alternative to Fiac—will Art Basel's presence change that?
The fair's eighth edition will take place in the photography studio that hosted the first exhibition of Impressionist art in 1874
Major galleries sign Venice Biennale’s women artists—at last
Commercial representation is growing for leading women who launched and sustained careers before the art market cared
Spiralling production costs put pressure on art fairs
PAD London founder says all its suppliers have increased their fees by 20% to 50%
Regent’s Jurassic Park: dinosaurs go on sale at Frieze Masters, but it is a highly complex—and laborious—market
David Aaron gallery’s £1m sale of a 154 million-year-old Camptosaurus skeleton highlights collectors’ growing interest in fossils