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Lalanne mirrors owned by Yves Saint Laurent and a classic Diane Arbus photo: our pick of the April auctions

Plus, Konstantin Andreevich Somov's birch trees and rhinoceros after Dürer are on sale this month

Milan’s contemporary art credentials further bolstered by arrival of Paris Internationale

The cutting-edge French art fair is the latest to join an expanding cohort of global players opening in Italy

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A renewed focus on rigour and connection at Expo Chicago

The fair’s 2026 edition is the first to be helmed by new director Kate Sierzputowski, who has widened its institutional outreach through local and regional collaborations

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Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector

The New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists

Christie’s to sell an almost unknown Van Gogh double-sided drawing

These were sketches for paintings which were never completed - or are lost

Vaccine billionaire buys $17.9m Raja Ravi Varma, setting new record for Indian painting at auction

Cyrus Poonawalla is the latest collector to pay top prices for South Asian art, as the Indian art market continues a bull run

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Art crowd saddles up at the High Desert Art Fair

A motel in Pioneertown, a community in California's Mojave Desert, offers local grit and an antidote to art fair fatigue

Trey the Triceratops sells for $5.5m via Pharrell Williams's auction site

The skeleton of a young adult dinosaur, excavated in Wyoming during the 1990s "Bone Rush", sold on the musician's online Joopiter platform

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Art trade stays buoyant amid global turmoil

Strong results in the London spring auctions suggest ultrarich are regaining confidence, despite escalating war in the Middle East

Guillaume Cerutti departs Christie's and other positions in Pinault’s companies

The news follows his sudden departure as president of the Pinault Collection

Chile's leading art fair foregrounds affordable works, often with a political edge

The 16th edition of Chaco boasts a plethora of affordable works by Latin American artists in an inclusive atmosphere

Guillaume Cerutti departs as president of the Pinault Collection after 13 months

The former chief executive officer of Christie’s moved to Paris to focus on the collection and its museums in 2025

Sales at Art Basel Hong Kong reflect a deepening Asian market

The region's growing institutional infrastructure is helping to counteract a diminished presence from the West

Important collection of Minimalist art could bring big results at auction

Henry S. McNeil Jr.’s collection, led by a major Judd "stack" sculpture, is expected to exceed $30m at Christie's this spring

Ten must-see works in Art Basel Hong Kong's new section

The fair’s Echoes section is dedicated to art created in the last five years

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Comment | All hail the rise of the art internship

Against a backdrop of a contracting job market for graduates, initiatives such as the Sotheby’s Institute’s fellowship programme are supporting the next generation of art industry experts

Hong Kong’s contemporary art scene is blossoming in difficult times

With four new art spaces opening, cultural workers see a bright future for the city

French government blocks sale of newly discovered drawing by German Renaissance master Hans Baldung

The portrait has been deemed “a work of major historical and artistic interest“ for France’s national heritage

Gullah artist Sam Doyle’s narrative portraits shine at Outsider Art Fair in New York

His works, painted on found wood and discarded tin, illuminate culture on the remote Saint Helena Island

New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford – podcast

In this week's episode of The Week in Art, Ben Luke discusses the newly-enlarged New Museum, talks to Georgina Adam about her new book on the latest generation of art collectors, and hears from the curator of a new exhibition on botany at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David. Clack and Alexander Morrison

Mexico’s culture ministry urges eBay to halt sales of pre-Hispanic artefacts

The Florida-based seller claims the listed objects were purchased legally, adding: “I suggest you research the laws”

Major collection of Indian paintings and calligraphy to be offered at Christie's

Following the success of the Aga Khan sale in October, works from the collection of Seattle-based Mary and Cheney Cowles will be sold in London in April

Art Dubai 2026 to be postponed and adapted in response to regional conflict

The fair’s 20th edition will be rescheduled to mid-May and have a “more focused and flexible format”, as Iranian strikes in the UAE show no signs of abating

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Comment | Why doesn't Tefaf Maastricht move to Brussels?

The out-of-the-way Maastricht offers travel complications and inferior accommodation—but its intimate size is its advantage

US congress passes revamped Holocaust recovery bill that sidesteps many legal defences

The Hear Act of 2025, which now only needs president Trump’s signature to become law, extends and expands the reach of its 2016 predecessor

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Can Tefaf Maastricht keep up with the experience economy?

The venerable fair continues to offer a trove of historic treasures, but that might not be enough to draw in today's wealthy buyers

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The rise and fall of ‘buy-one, give-one’ art sales

A once-popular mechanism that allowed collectors to secure an in-demand work if they gifted a second to an institution, market shifts have made "bogos" less viable

Comment | Cow in MSCHF project survives, but should the project have happened at all?

The artist collective allowed buyers to decide the fate of a cow’s life (thankfully they chose a sanctuary over the slaughterhouse), but the intended awareness-raising gave way to polarising digital discourse