Art dealers

Art fairsarchive

The trouble with art fairs: curators, collectors and dealers are starting to feel fatigued

As the sheer number of annual events continues to grow, fair fatigue has become a common condition

Friezearchive

Frieze: For one week London became the centre of the art world

The annual event in Regent’s Park is a new magnet for artists, collectors and dealers

Russian Oligarch Alexander Shadrin buys 40 Dalís

The works are on show in a local museum, and will travel the country next year

Dealer who sold Turner masterpiece says it will go on public view in UK

Both the US National Gallery and Tate wanted to acquire The Dark Rigi but it was sold to a private collector

Tatearchive

How the US National Gallery and Tate were beaten to Turner masterpiece

The Dark Rigi has become embroiled in murky legal waters

Collectingarchive

Art consultant Philippe Segalot reveals his views on the market and which contemporary artists he thinks will stand the test of time

In the second extract from Adam Lindemann’s Collecting Contemporary, we learn that the most committed collectors also make the most money

The posthumous rise of Martin Kippenberger

The German artist’s work has become a favourite among curators and collectors—but only since his death a decade ago

Art Baselarchive

Ena Swansea splits from Gasser & Grunert after exclusion from Art Basel fair selection

The gallery's loss of one of its stars only contributes to their recent bout of poor fortune

Art fairsarchive

Mexico's MACO remains a modest fair but draws major dealers

Exhibitor numbers are up 50%, with a few big names such as Hauser & Wirth

Baselarchive

Design Miami/Basel 2006 kicks off in style

The fair makes it clear that contemporary design dictates the taste of the moment

Antiquesarchive

Going...going...is the traditional antique gallery dying?

Dealers race to sell stock at auction as buying tastes change

Moscowarchive

Moscow dealers to open art centre in former wine factory

Businessmen and collectors fund $4m complex

Art marketarchive

Warring New York dealers guilty of tax evasion

Court orders Helen Fioratti and James Sansum to repay huge sums

Business as usual at Knoedler's renowned Upper East side branch after $500,000 restorations

The modernisation of this landmark is an example of Knoedler's adaptability, as one of the US's longest established commercial galleries

Art marketarchive

Court finds Peter Brant really does own Warhol’s Red Elvis

The decision ends a dispute that started in 2000

June 2005archive

'The art trade is the last major unregulated market'

Is it time for reform? Murky dealings came to light in 2005 as more collectors began to enter the scene—and brought their cases to court

Art marketarchive

America votes for giltwood at the International Art and Antiques Show

Decorative arts dealers reported good sales but paintings were harder to shift

New Lefevre/Gibson collaborative gallery christened with London's first ever Giacometti show

All fifteen of the drawings that make up the display - running until 15 December - are available to purchase

Art marketarchive

Speculators angering dealers over collecting without passion for art

Young financiers want to build a diversified portfolio

Art fairsarchive

FIAC, Paris: Suffering from the Frieze effect

Foreign collectors deserted the fair and the French only buy their own artists

Friezearchive

Frieze already an established British tradition

Although only the second edition of this contemporary fair in a tent, global collectors flocked to it and sales were frantic

The Basel Ancient Art Fair set to launch this November

The fair will occupy the space in the fair calendar left bare by the now-defunct Cultura

Do contemporary dealers still need galleries?

Larry Gagosian has just opened a new, 1,400-square-metre space in London. But is such grandeur still necessary?