Art market

Lisson Grove's galleries collaborate to promote London's unsung art district

New initiative led by Lisson, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Palmer Gallery, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art and The Showroom will launch during London Gallery Weekend in June

Untitled Art will launch four new prizes at Houston fair's second edition

Combined, the prizes will provide as much as $113,200 for acquisitions at the fair

Heffel’s spring sales, featuring rediscovered royal portrait and E.J. Hughes seascape, tally $16.2m

Works by famed Canadian figures including Emily Carr, Tom Thomson, Jean Paul Riopelle and Takao Tanabe also notched major results

India's Kiran Nadar Museum to take over Christie's London headquarters this summer

A month-long non-selling exhibition from the collection of the New Delhi patron will feature 60 Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi artists working from the 1950s to the present day

Richter and Judd works top Christie's solid if not stellar sale of post-war and contemporary art

The $162.6m evening auctions featured a trove of Gerhard Richter works that had belonged to the late dealer Marian Goodman, and canonic Minimalist sculptures from the estate of collector Henry S. McNeil Jr

Crime news

Authorities in New York return more than 650 looted antiquities, valued at nearly $14m, to India

The objects were recovered through investigations into trafficking networks, including those linked to convicted smuggler Subhash Kapoor and trafficker Nancy Wiener

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

Art marketanalysis

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

Art marketanalysis

'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

Filmreview

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

Art marketcomment

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