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Estate fallouts expose challenges of posthumous art ownership

Recent US lawsuits, including a row over underpricing, reveal weaknesses in the market

‘The struggle creates genius’: as it grows and matures, Atlanta Art Fair spotlights the city’s hard-working artists

The fair’s third edition, its largest yet, saw a bevy of sales in its opening hours, primarily in the four- and five-figure range

Untitled Art, Houston taps into a city where artists can thrive

The second edition of the fair highlights Houston’s galleries, collectors and institutions, while artists point to affordability, strong connections and a spirit of experimentation

Flea market picker strikes gold as $30 Gertrude Abercrombie painting brings record $1.3m at auction

The painting, discovered in an estate sale in Michigan this summer, set a new auction record for Abercrombie at a Freeman’s sale in New York

Contemporary Istanbul founder planning new fair on city's Asian side

The 21st edition of the fair occupied a new single-floor site at the Ottoman era shipping yard Tersane Istanbul

New York's Split Level art fair returns to Madison Avenue design showroom for second edition

The fair is once again taking over Rimadesio’s design showroom, giving pride of place to young galleries with a focus on experimentation and affordability

$450m Impressionist collection—including a potentially record-breaking Van Gogh painting—to be sold at Sotheby's New York

Five of the works from the Blaquier-Arrieta collection go on show in London today as part of an international tour ahead of the sale in November

Turner painting estimated to make £50m auction record goes on view in Rome

The 19th century work ‘Rome, from Mount Aventine’, which holds the British painter's auction record from 2014, is on display at the Palazzo Rondinini before going under the hammer at Sotheby's London in December

Buyer of mysterious £6.75m Rembrandt painting revealed

Thomas Kaplan’s Leiden Collection acquired Saint John on Patmos at Sotheby’s, the 18th work by the Dutch master to enter the collection

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Bogotá's Artbo fair remains boutique and local—is that enough?

Exhibitor numbers for the fair's 2026 edition are still down from pre-pandemic levels, and its collectors and galleries are largely from Colombia

At The Armory Show, emerging galleries are clear-eyed about the risks and rewards of doing fairs

The fair’s Presents section for younger galleries, often among its most vibrant sectors, features bold stands organised by ambitious dealers who understand the costs of doing business

The expanded Independent 20th Century fair offers abstraction of all stripes

True to the fair’s mission, many exhibitors are showing works by long-overlooked practitioners of abstract art

Was this Pissarro painting—sold at Sotheby's in 2024—looted by Nazis? A Paris court deliberates

Heirs to Jewish banker Salomon Flavian claim they were not consulted before the sale, meanwhile Sotheby's argues the work may have not been forcibly taken at all

Why one of Berlin's hottest young galleries has relocated to London

A real-estate crisis, fraught politics, and a market downturn have all factored into Heidi's move

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BBC art dealing game show reveals 'crisis of commodification' facing galleries

What is the future for the art market when monetary value trumps aesthetic value?

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Hockney works to the fore at British Art Fair

The event, started in 1988 and one of London's oldest art fairs, returns to the Saatchi Gallery this week with over 70 exhibitors

Christie’s will stage second anime and manga auction after debut sale outperformed expectations

In October, the auction house will once again tap into the US boom of Japanese popular culture with a sale centred on Dragon Ball, Pokémon, Sailor Moon and Studio Ghibli

U-Haul Art Fair’s fleet doubles in size for next New York outing

The truck-based fair’s latest edition, coinciding with The Armory Show, will feature 20 exhibitors

Independent 20th Century brings blue-chip deep cuts to the Breuer

The fair’s autumnal edition, devoted to overlooked or under-recognised bodies of work from the previous century, is taking over Sotheby’s headquarters

The Armory Show spotlights Caribbean artists and galleries

New York’s biggest art fair has revamped its footprint to place artists of the Caribbean and its diasporas in the foreground, as well as stalwarts of the hometown scene

Contemporary Istanbul expands international reach with 17 newcomers

Organisers are highlighting the city's role as a regional culture hub despite ongoing economic and political challenges

Late greats David Hockney and Wu Guanzhong shown together at Christie's Hong Kong

The non-selling show was inspired by Hockney’s three-week visit to China in 1981, as the country was reopening to the world

ArtRio opens amid political uncertainty as Brazil’s art market continues to grow

The Rio fair brings together 76 galleries as an upcoming presidential election and a new generation of collectors shape the market

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Blue-chip names headline Christie’s Hong Kong sales

As the auction house continues to celebrate 40 years of operating in Asia, its exciting line-up of September sales offers renowned global artists alongside those with strong markets in the region

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Monet’s ‘Iris’ could break record for most expensive painting ever sold at auction in France

Estimated between €22m-€30m, it leads a 28-lot sale at Sotheby’s Paris of the collection of Jeanne Schlumberger

Ellie Rines opens new Tribeca gallery after a decade in Chinatown

Having helped establish Henry Street as a New York art destination, the dealer now has a new gallery name, a new space and a new director

A late Chagall self-portrait and a colourful crushed car sculpture: our pick of the September auctions and sales

Plus, a rare Chinese vase decorated with Buddhist lions and a moody landscape by Lois Dodd

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Dealers make moves around Manhattan

From Soho to Chelsea, established local galleries, newcomers and others are opening new spaces or relocating their businesses

Marlow Moss, overshadowed De Stijl pioneer, gets first London show in decades

A Jewish non-binary lesbian who fled the Nazis and lost much of her work in a 1944 studio fire, Moss's paintings and sculptures are the subject of a commercial exhibition at Ward Moretti

Two Eastman Johnson paintings stolen in the 1970s are recovered

A Connecticut auction house identified the stolen works in a private estate collection and helped return them