Melanie Gerlis

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

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

A depressed art market: not a bad time to die

US tax court’s valuation revision reduces estate taxes for heirs

Fairsnews

Belgian art fair to be held in Jewish Museum

Site of 2014 terrorist attack to reopen to public; director not deterred by this week’s massacre

Damien Hirst, suffragette, spins with a twist

Artist has made a work to support the Women’s Equality Party

Small works come out tops at new-style Tefaf Maastricht

Recently-discovered Rembrandt, a revamped first floor, the New York editions—and an unfolding authenticity scandal outside the fair—contributed to a buzzy opening

It’s official: art sales fell in 2015

Annual Tefaf report shows 7% decline in a polarised market tilted toward the one-percent

Fairsnews

Tefaf sets its sights on New York

Fair teams up with US advisory firm to launch two smaller editions in the US

Art lenders outside the US get creative

Falcon Fine Art expands business that allows borrowers to keep their works