Art market

Sold-out Phillips auction in New York brings in $115.2m, more than double 2025 result

The sale offered signals for optimists that the market is rebounding, and set new auction records for Joseph Yaeger, P.S. Krøyer and Pat Passlof

Bidding battle for Matisse leads Sotheby’s $303.3m Modern art evening sale in New York

Henri Matisse’s "La Chaise lorraine" sold for $48.4m with fees as strong results for Picasso, Van Gogh and Giacometti lifted the evening auction's total

Art bartering: artists start viral social media trend to fight cost of living crisis

From help with websites and video editing to free accommodation and haircuts, artists are trading their work on Instagram and TikTok to escape the traps of capitalism

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In a new home, Photo London gets down to business

The navigable Olympia in west London is a welcome change from Somerset House for the fair's exhibitors hoping to maximise exposure and get deals done

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'Reflection of resilience': Art Dubai's war-postponed edition opens to healthy sales

The fair's 20th edition was almost derailed by the US-Israel war in Iran—but organisers rallied the local community for a special show

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New film about forgers is ‘Miami Vice’ for the art-world crowd

Although uneven at times, ‘Forge’ questions whether collectors really have more appreciation for art than artists who create forgeries

Robert Mnuchin's $85.7m Rothko leads Sotheby's $407.5m auction in New York

Last night's season opening sale of post-war and contemporary art, which started with 11 lots from the late art dealer, set new records for young artists Ding Shilun and Yu Nishimura

Independent art fair makes the most of more spacious digs

The fair has nearly doubled its footprint at its new location on the East River, offering exhibitors and collectors more room while allowing for larger site-specific artistic interventions

Latin American galleries dominate at Frieze New York

Despite mounting costs and political pressures, exhibitors from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere are bringing their artists’ work to the city—with the fair committed to representing the region

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Ten years on, Tefaf New York still stands out from the crowd

The fair’s dedication to art from the 20th century as much as the 21st sets it apart from its May competitors

Cai Guo-Qiang joins White Cube

The Chinese artist presents a new iteration of his gunpowder paintings at Tefaf New York

New York art world spared worst of logistics woes

While the war in Iran has complicated art-market activities in the Middle East, the impact on this month’s fairs appears minimal

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Comment | Flourishing markets beyond the big three will benefit the art ecosystem—and the planet

Regions outside of the US, UK and China have grown their share from 17% of business in 2015 to 24% in 2025, according to report

Frieze New York highlights local galleries while global voices grow

Nearly half of exhibitors this year have a New York base, reinforcing the city’s market dominance as Latin American participation also rises

New £5.5m record for Islamic glass leads London sales

A Mamluk footed bowl deaccessioned from the Toledo Museum was the star of this spring's sales of Indian and Islamic art, which saw strong bidding on Indian paintings and Iznik ceramics

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This month’s blockbuster auctions in New York could bring upwards of $2.5bn

The sales at Bonhams, Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s, spanning two weeks, will test the trade’s recent buoyancy

David Nahmad maintains that his Modigliani was not looted by the Nazis

The Lebanese billionaire cited Marc Restellini’s recently published catalogue raisonné as proof that this has all been a case of mistaken identity

The Venice Biennale has long been a sales platform—now no one is pretending otherwise

From a Christie's exhibition to a posthumous display of Mel Ramos, this year numerous explicitly commercial shows signal a shift in attitude

Art trade adjusting after US Supreme Court struck down Trump's extreme tariffs

After the ruling, President Donald Trump imposed new rate of up to 15%, although this is also being challenged and is likely to be temporary

Gallery Weekend Berlin opens ranks as city faces identity crisis

A new section Perspectives invites seven younger galleries to take part, helping to refresh the event and combat accusations of elitism

Under new ownership, Art Monte Carlo voices 'global ambitions'

Held in the Grimaldi Forum, the boutique fair was bought last year by trade fair company Informa Prestige

Full extent of Stephen Friedman Gallery's £7.8m debt revealed in filings

The bankrupt gallery owes £800,000 to three prominent artists—Alexandre Diop, Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley—while other major creditors include the logistics company Crozier

British billionaire's £200m art collection most expensive ever offered in UK

Financier Joe Lewis's trove of market titans, including Klimt, Schiele and Bacon, will "inject trust into the London market" when it is sold at Sotheby's this June

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Pittsburgh’s burgeoning gallery community readies for its moment in art world spotlight

As the latest Carnegie International arrives, Pittsburgh’s long-running and newer commercial art spaces make the case for a more supportive, sustainable and slower-paced scene

Crime news

Texas man who ran cryptocurrency scam supposedly backed by blue-chip art worth $1bn sentenced to 23 years in prison

Robert Dunlap promised investors a coin backed by works by Dalí, Picasso and other renowned artists

TikTok Shop adds ‘fine art’ category—will it disrupt the art market?

The new category was launched with a live sale of works by influencer artist Sophie Tea

Wildenstein dispute over Monet work highlights art market opacity

Long-running dispute centres on a complex 2004 transaction tied to works by Claude Monet

Harnessing the winds of societal change: how art dealers have been able to shape taste for centuries

A new book about the history of the art trade highlights how some outsiders became insiders, while others slipped through history's cracks