Melanie Gerlis

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

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>

Designs on Hong Kong

The Miami-born fair plans to keep pace with Art Basel

Gallery pulls out of Lima fair in protest against mayor’s ‘attacks against freedom of expression’

<h5>Event organisers end sponsorship agreement with city officials after complaints from arts community, but “damage is done” Andrea Ferrero says</h5>

Time to find Hong Kong’s artists on their home turf

Local works will be prominent at Art Basel and the new Art Central satellite fair

Comment: it’s the economy, stupid—and the art market is no longer immune to its vicissitudes

While the 2008 global financial meltdown largely failed to dent sales, in 2015 our editor-at-large warned that the falling oil price experienced at the time could prove much more serious

Newsarchive

China Guardian head sounds warning note on sales and fraud

Hu Yanyan says that results will still be “healthy”

Art marketarchive

Anger at casino Warhol sale

The works are being sold by Westdeutsche Spielbanken to raise funds for restructuring

Flipping art: filthy lucre or a sound business plan?

In 2014 we noted that market speculation can offer rich rewards, but in the long term, it may do collectors more harm than good

Art marketarchive

Collection agency head warns over resale rights

The Artists’ Collecting Society says that the “honeymoon” grace period on accurate reporting of sales is coming to an end

Modigliani drawings show at Harris Lindsay

16 works originally given to Paul Alexandre help kick off London Art Week

Art Baselarchive

Standards are upheld at Art Basel 2014 with consistent sales throughout

Dealers seem to have come to terms with the pressures of showing at such a prestigious fair, and prepared well ahead of time

Art marketarchive

Market warms to Japanese avant-garde

A new auction record is set for Kazuo Shiraga

Art marketarchive

The diffusion of the global art market away from landmark Western art fairs

As art events crop up all over the world, A-list events are no longer an imperative for dealers

Saatchi to sell Tracey Emin’s bed

Collector hopes for a king-sized return

Filmsarchive

Uli Sigg film on his rational and comprehensive attitude to collecting Chinese contemporary art

Sigg reveals that he didn’t necessarily like some of the contemporary art he bought