Art market

Independent 20th Century fair will move to Sotheby’s Breuer Building in 2026

The move will allow the fair to grow significantly, from around 30 exhibitors to around 50

New York's Art on Paper fair draws a fuzzy line between its titular medium and everything else

The 11th edition of the paper-focused fair explores the innumerable ways that the material can be used as a vehicle of expression—with some paintings and ceramics for good measure

Clément Delépine leaving Art Basel Paris to lead Lafayette Anticipations

After overseeing four editions of Art Basel’s French fair, Delépine will take the helm at the Fondation Galeries Lafayette’s art and culture space

Dealers get creative pairing artists at Duet—just don’t call it an art fair

The new project, featuring 11 galleries and a group show, frames itself as an alternative to more conventional Armory Week fairs

The Armory Show jumpstarts New York art market after summer of hand-wringing

The fair is unfolding amid market jitters and following a string of gallery closures, but dealers were upbeat and reporting solid sales during the VIP preview

Despite red tape from US sanctions, Tehran-based gallery champions Iranian art at The Armory Show

Owner of O Gallery says her participation affirms ‘importance of cultural dialogue at a time when exchange across borders is increasingly fraught’

Artists who defy categorisation take pride of place at Independent 20th Century

The fair, which spotlights art from the previous century, is showing overlooked women Modernists as well as boundary-pushing painters and sculptors

‘Unicorn’ collection, expected to fetch $180m, comes to Christie's

The Weis family's private trove of masterworks has emerged at last

Furniture gets a performative boost at Collectible design fair

At the fair’s second New York iteration, bespoke functional art meets food, music, drag and even body piercing

Comment | Why New York can be a risky place for dealers and museums to hold art

Could the Manhattan district attorney's seizures be putting people off sending artworks to the city?

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How—and why—do art fairs work with non-profit organisations?

Teasing apart the alliances between for-profit trade events and charitable organisations

The new U-Haul Art Fair is pulling up in Chelsea

Exhibitors at the new fair on wheels will work out of trucks rather than from stands

New York's digital art gallery reboot

The opening of the NFT platform SuperRare’s physical space and Heft Gallery, both on the Lower East Side, signal growing collector interest and institutional acceptance

Collectible design fair’s second New York outing marries ‘folly’ and practicality

Fair's hottest section is devoted to functionally ambiguous but aesthetically inspiring pieces

Timely rediscoveries await at Independent 20th Century

The fair’s fourth edition includes timely works by Russian dissidents, queer underground artists and more

The Armory Show puts spotlight on the American South

Organisers hope the fair—including a sector championing artists from the southern US and another led by an Atlanta non-profit—complicates stereotypes about the region

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Comment | 'AI will transform the art market—just not how you expect'

The unglamorous world of art market logistics is set to become much more efficient, says Convelio shipping founder Edouard Gouin

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Pioneering Brazilian artist Lygia Pape's estate is now represented by Mendes Wood DM

The Brazilian gallery will hold a career-spanning exhibition of Pape’s work in São Paulo in April 2026

A former director at Lower Manhattan galleries goes it alone Uptown

After stints at Pace, Lehmann Maupin and elsewhere, Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle is prioritising her nomadic gallery Gladwell Projects, which will open a pop-up in Harlem this autumn

Leaning on luxury goods, Sotheby's launches auction week in Abu Dhabi

The auction house will hold a series of live sales in the emirate this December featuring sports cars, jewellery and handbags

New Orleans artists mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina

Ferrara Showman Gallery brings together works from ten artists reflecting on two decades since the deadly storm

Jeff Koons returns to Gagosian four years after departing for Pace

The world's most expensive living artist is once again represented by the global mega-gallery

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Rising dealer Sebastian Gladstone expands in LA—what’s behind his success?

This month, Gladstone will open a major expansion in Hollywood, as others shut shop

‘Sometimes you just have to go for it’: as others close, Ben Hunter expands his London gallery

The art dealer, who has taken over an entire townhouse in coveted St James’s, talks overheads, growth and balancing the primary and secondary markets

Artist’s doobie-ous Snoop Dogg collaboration tokes in $148,100 at auction

The artist Erica Kovitz used the remainders of blunts smoked by Tha Doggfather to make a series of mixed-media works

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will close Los Angeles location

The New York gallery's West Coast outpost will cease operations in September after seven years

Behind-the-scenes Beatles photographs shot by Paul McCartney to go on sale at Gagosian London

The images, taken by the frontman between December 1963 and February 1964, capture pivotal moments of the band's stratospheric rise to fame

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Buyer’s choice: how collectors factor into the art world’s quest for environmental sustainability

With the agency to make decisions on emissions-heavy activities, collectors play a crucial role in the industry

Forged Picasso prints sold at Stuttgart auction recovered as part of international police operation

The replica etchings are among more than 100 fake contemporary works of art that have been seized by Italian authorities since 2022

Christophe de Menil, art patron and heiress to the Menil Collection's founders, has died, aged 92

As the firstborn daughter of the Franco Texan de Menils, Christophe grew up to continue the family's legacy of arts patronage