With only two lots unsold, the auction house nets $362.6m in evening of avid bidding

A double pool portrait, estimated at $80m and offered at Christie’s with no reserve, could set a record for the most expensive work by a living artist

Monet carries Christie's evening sale while a Magritte shines at Sotheby's, marking an auction record for the Surrealist painter

New York auction topped by Monet's Le bassin aux nymphaés, sold to an Asian buyer at $31.8m

Lesser known lots still hold plenty of hammer potential

The formal investigation follows his detainment earlier this week related to an ongoing spat with the art dealer Yves Bouvier

MCH Group is selling its stakes in Art Düsseldorf and India Art Fair and will pull out of Singapore’s Art SG to 'to stabilise the company '

As midterm elections approach, take in art that takes on issues at stake

From a two-venue show of Albert Oehlen's abstract works in Paris to a Bridget Riley retrospective in Los Angeles, here are the gallery shows to see

The divisive election of conservative president Iván Duque in August and resulting political tension may stymie sales at Bogotá's Artbo

Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe

With no auction precedent and little primary market data, Christie's sale of a work made by an algorithm tests demand

Modernist works from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be offered in New York in November

Estimated at $300m, the sale of American Modernist masterpieces will be digitally encrypted by the blockchain startup Artory

The mega-collector’s latest lawsuit, filed in New York, escalates his three-year legal feud with Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier

From Kerry James Marshall's all-new paintings in London to Zoe Leonard's decade-long photo series in Los Angeles, these are the commercial gallery shows to see

Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions

Exhibitors benefit from the curatorial heft of local art institutions

Research by The Art Newspaper uncovers wide disparity in both fee structures and transparency

While international exhibitor numbers are up again, the Midwest collectors base proves elusive

The contemporary art fair makes it mark with a ten year lease on Marx Halle

The power of Black artists resonates at the Brooklyn Museum, while Medieval monsters lurk at the Morgan Library

The work was bought by a Baton Rouge family for about $120 while travelling in London in 1958, the Wall Street Journal reports

Auction houses and art dealers express ‘relief’ even as the US-China trade war escalates

Our pick from this week's auctions and fairs

Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) could become the most valuable work by a living artist sold at auction

New exhibitions at commercial galleries, from Joan Mitchell's last show at Cheim & Read, to Francesca Woodman's haunting photographs in Venice

Our pick from this week's auctions and exhibitions

After waves of closures, the pricey West Side art district sees a frenzy of growth this fall

The art dealer will pay $3m in restitution to the IRS after falsifying returns to hide her use of gallery profits to upgrade her Manhattan home