Melanie Gerlis

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

Prizesnews

Blurred lines: anything goes at this year's Turner Prize

From opera singers to homewares, works in the 2015 exhibition break out of traditional art categories

China crisis puts global art market on alert

Buying was visible at the very top, but the confidence this gave is now on the wane

Punctured Fontana egg to headline Sotheby’s London auctions

Modern Italian works set to steal contemporary art’s limelight (again) in Frieze Week sales

Is there a market for contemporary art in Russia?

Cosmoscow fair aims to kickstart local appetite

Back to school: top six gallery shows in London this week

William Kentridge's marching refugees, Luc Tuymans's abstract friends and possibly the capital's tiniest show

Million-dollar sales boost art loan industry

Report says business has doubled to $10bn in four years

Christie’s sales growth cools in the first half of 2015

Falls in private sales, Russian art and London auctions dent otherwise strong performance; Sotheby's sales also flat

Restituted works help Sotheby’s lead the way

Impressionist and Modern sales meet expectations

Restituted works help Sotheby’s lead the way in London sales

Impressionist and Modern art auctions were in line with expectations

Two thirds of galleries at Art Basel are from just four countries

Academic says globalisation has 'hardly had an impact' on the fair

The generation game: the women behind the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation

Around 300 pieces from the Swiss organisation's sizeable art collection is on display at the Schaulager

Soaring Swiss franc makes Basel more of a stretch for Europeans

Dealers from Switzerland acknowledge they need to be aware of buyers’ budgets at the fair

Hauser & Wirth takes on Fausto Melotti estate

Gallery partner says the Italian Modernist sculptor is less known outside of Europe

Art Basel opens with works that invite visitors to be part of the art

Experiences at the fair range from reclining in a hammock to enjoying an ice cream

Heritagecomment

Calls to open looted-art archives grow louder

Museums and the trade want to put an end to the Catch-22 situation with Medici and Becchina

Art Basel: an old fair gets a new(ish) look

This year’s edition offers a more logical layout and a green Messeplatz project

Lawnews

When did art insurance become cut throat?

Poaching leads Willis to get injunction and accuse JLT of conspiracy

Dispute over 13th-century painting stolen by one of its owners has been resolved

Questions remain over authorship of panel that could be by Duccio

Meet Woking’s answer to Roman Abramovich

Football club owner has built large collection, with more than 150 Modern British works on public display

The expat effect: many early adopters of the Hong Kong fair were born elsewhere

Dubai’s art fair also harnesses the interest of the city’s cosmopolitan inhabitants

Ai Weiwei boosts value of art fund by 5% in 2014

Tiroche DeLeon collection focuses on works from developing countries<br>