Art market
Jane Birkin’s original namesake Hermès bag sells for record-breaking €8.6m at Sotheby’s Paris
It is the most expensive handbag ever sold at auction
Influential New York gallery Venus Over Manhattan will close after 13 years
Founder and dealer Adam Lindemann says he will return his focus to his personal art collection
Phillips claims stake in South Asian market with London exhibition
Held in collaboration with Grosvenor Gallery, the Modernist selling show sees the auction house tap into this burgeoning region
A sale as old as time: Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer
The skeleton, which was displayed at Frieze Masters in 2023, has been found to belong to a new species
The art market bites back as estimates fail to score
A landscape that includes economic volatility, generational movement and new technology is changing the rules of engagement
New fair for women-led galleries to launch during London's Frieze Week
Echo Soho is founded by the gallery owner India Rose James and will host up to 12 exhibitors this October
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Turner painting bought last year for £500 sells for almost £2m at Sotheby's
The Old Master sale on Wednesday night totalled £14.5m, led by a record price of £2.7m for Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi
Pennsylvania college moves to sell its entire art collection amid $20m budget shortfall
Albright College has consigned more than 500 works from its collection to an online auction, though the small sum it expects to get from the sale will do little to alleviate financial pressures it faces
Tim Blum will phase out traditional gallery model, close Los Angeles and Tokyo locations
The longtime dealer says a new structure will allow for more flexibility, engagement
A Clara Peeters self-portrait and the only work for which Gandhi posed are among this summer’s auction highlights
Plus, a tense landscape by Max Beckmann and nudes by Philip Pearlstein
As Iraq's economy shows signs of recovery, a thirst for new art is emerging
A new generation of artists, collectors and educators is tapping into the country’s desire to create and experience art
Collector Ken Griffin spends $18.1m on historic US documents signed by Abraham Lincoln
Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution
New world record for Canaletto as view of Venice sells for £31.9m
The painting, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, was sold during Christie's £55m Old Master sale in London tonight, alongside works by Constable, Willem Key and Gerrit Dou
Key player in Norval Morrisseau forgery ring pleads guilty
James White, a prominent member in the vast network, pleaded guilty to forgery and trafficking
A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy
Ed Dolman, Brett Gorvy, Patti Wong and Phillip Hoffman have formed a management firm to advise top-level clients as industry enters new era
Treasure House Fair hopes to be the flagship summer event London desperately needs
The third edition of the "heir" to Masterpiece London opens tomorrow at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, with a diverse group of 72 exhibitors spanning antiquities to contemporary art
Nudes by Tamara de Lempicka and Jenny Saville lead quiet Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale
The auction totalled £62.5m—down 25% year-on-year—but Sotheby's says it is committed to holding June sales in London despite a beleaguered post-Brexit market
Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner
The small landscape painting was consigned to a Toronto auction house a decade ago, but had not been seen since 2021
Innovative London drawing fair with no stands stages its second edition
Trois Crayons, a platform for drawing, is organising the selling show of works from the past 500 years
As art market regulations tighten, international dealer association calls for 'unity' across trade
Cinoa's new president hopes for a more co-ordinated approach as game-changing legislation comes into effect
‘Momentous’: Italy to slash art VAT to 5%, the lowest rate in the EU
The move comes ahead of a series of planned reforms to improve competitiveness within the Italian art market
Strategic or speculative? Once again, art investment funds are on the rise
Figures behind the Fine Art Group and Arte Collectum explain why now is the right time to launch a fund
Romania secures hold on ‘stolen’ El Greco as court filings reveal Dmitry Rybolovlev is its owner
The work was pulled from a Christie's auction following claims by the Romanian government that it had been unlawfully removed from the country in 1947
London's pre-contemporary art market gets boost from two new summer events
Studiolo and Classic Art London seek to give fresh energy to a traditionally important time in the UK calendar
No more business-as-usual: Art Basel demonstrates how dealers can adapt to thrive
Galleries showing at the fair are responding to a shifting art market
In Basel, alternative art fairs spring up in new places
Basel Social Club has moved to the Old Town, while a gallery takes over a villa
Art Basel Diary: guests unwind in the Rhine, puppets rest in bunk beds and Bezos’s yacht gets hot
Plus: the art of football and an evening poetry reading
In pictures: meet the newcomer galleries debuting at Art Basel
More than a dozen galleries are showing at Art Basel for the first time, all brimming with enthusiasm