Melanie Gerlis

Melanie Gerlis is the art market editor-at-large at The Art Newspaper and author of Art as an Investment

Fairsnews

Collectors take a long hard look at themselves at Art Basel

Artists hold up a mirror to everyone who makes the art world go round

Economics and politics made Tate Modern happen

Deregulation in London’s financial markets, and new money looking for a home, helped to make contemporary art a much-prized commodity

Economist Clare McAndrew lured away from Dutch fair Tefaf to crunch numbers for Art Basel

Her annual global market report, now sponsored by the Swiss fair and UBS, will be published to coincide with next year’s Hong Kong edition

Fairsnews

Weak market should bring out the best, says Art Basel director

This year’s fair will reflect the art world’s growing appreciation of photography

London’s Fine Art Society turns 140

Specialists put the past behind them for celebratory exhibition

Phillips ups thresholds for buyer’s premium

Increase puts auction house’s fees in line with Sotheby’s; Christie’s a relative bargain

Ai Wewei heads to the USA

The artist will make his first trip back to the US since getting his passport back from Chinese authorities

Damien Hirst and Larry Gagosian reunite at Frieze New York

Gallery is re-representing the artist and is staging a solo show at the fair

Real estate mogul Aby Rosen reaches $7m tax settlement

Dispute centred on differing regimes for collecting and dealing in works of art

Frieze New York opens to VIPs with a splash of Hollywood gold-dust

Fair's deal with entertainment mega-agent could secure its future—but some still need convincing

Fifty editions on, can Art Cologne regain top billing?

Prospects are brighter for the world’s first art fair, which opens this week, thanks to its director Daniel Hug

Five to see at MiArt in Milan

The thoughtful fair has more to offer than Italy’s Postwar market darlings

Tefaf brings welcome cheer to the market

Relief for dealers after Dutch fair rings up decent sales

The media fail to cover the bulk of art market transactions

This was one of the conclusions reached during the panel discussion Informing the Art World, held at the Tefaf Art Symposium in Maastricht on 11 March

Race is on to beat art forgery with DNA technology

Artists Mat Collishaw, Idris Khan and Gary Hume support new platform