Art market

Comment | Galleries are looking to merch to keep spirits up—it's a joyful move in challenging times

Playful events such as Lyndsey Ingram’s ‘Bourdon Street Chippy’ are a gateway to higher spending, writes Melanie Gerlis

Diamonds as old as Earth itself go on show at Frieze Masters

The 3.5 billion-year-old gemstones are part of a display from the diamond company De Beers

‘Quality always rules’: VIP day sales at Frieze London 2025

According to gallerists, collectors are taking longer to make decisions this year—but they are still showing up to buy

Thinking bigger: gallery stalwarts Sadie Coles, Maureen Paley and Stuart Shave on why they're expanding to new London spaces

Amid a challenging art market, the gallerists remain positive about London's resilience as an international hub

A tale of two philanthropies: why private foundations differ in London and Paris

While the new Fondation Cartier exemplifies the heft of corporate giving in Paris, the additions of YDP and Ibraaz bring London greater diversity

Palestinian artist ‘cancelled’ by US museum comes to Frieze Masters

Samia Halaby’s retrospective at the Eskenazi Museum of Art was cancelled last year, but she's in London with a message of optimism

'I want to show the real deal': property developer Rajan Bijlani on his Modernist design collection

Few collectors are as well positioned for Frieze as Rajan Bijlani, whose home, a former pottery studio, is a ten-minute stroll across Regent’s Park

At Frieze London, a new section explores the flow of cultural influence between Africa and Brazil

Across eight galleries featuring ten artists, ‘Echoes in the Present’ is curated by the Nigerian art historian Jareh Das

Comment | Why it's time to increase UK's art export threshold

Alexander Herman argues that rules set up three-quarters of a century ago may no longer be fit for purpose

Putting young galleries at the front: Frieze London’s bold strategy holds

The fair continues to support emerging spaces and spotlight West African and Brazilian artists this year

Frieze to launch Abu Dhabi edition in November 2026

A deal struck with the emirate's department of culture will see the brand take over the existing Abu Dhabi Art fair

Sotheby’s to sell painting from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first solo show

‘Crowns (Peso Neto)’ (1981) is estimated to fetch between $35m and $40m

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As censorship rises, is there a future for truly political, truth-telling art?

Amid geopolitical instability around the world the market is looking to “safe” works—and artists are searching for new spaces to speak out

Is an auction house's loss a gallery's gain? Pilar Ordovas collaborates with former Sotheby's specialists for African and Oceanic art show

The exhibition, Dialogues, pairs 20th and 21st century art by the likes of Picasso, Adam Pendleton and David Hammons with the objects that inspired it

Art Basel names 87 galleries taking part in inaugural Qatar fair

Strong interest has resulted in the the fair having upwards of 50% more participants than anticipated, organisers say

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‘Is it possible to come back from this?’: Tehran’s art community on recovering from the 12-day war

Following the conflict between Iran and Israel in June, galleries in Tehran are continuing to show resilience

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Learning from the past: how historical tariffs have impacted the art market

As data from the last 150 years show, a market that thrives on free trade will have to diversify to survive

Record sales and a tax break close out blockbuster year for South Asian Modern market

Saffronart's latest auction in New Delhi is the largest ever held in South Asia, while Sotheby's in London made the highest price for Modernist F.N. Souza

Christie's Hong Kong autumn sale drops 46% from last year but makes Picasso's record in Asia

Sotheby's and Phillips's Hong Kong sales were also down from their 2024 equivalents

Colnaghi, world's oldest gallery, to open Saudi Arabian outpost

The London-based dealership specialising in Old Masters and antiquities is launching in Riyadh—but is there enough demand?

Pace to shut Hong Kong gallery

The mega gallery will be the latest high-profile departure from the H Queen's building as the city's art market struggles with economic slowdown

Almine Rech shuts London gallery but will open another there 'soon'

The prominent art dealership has closed its London operations in “a technical step to restructure a lease that no longer aligned with its plans”

Anna Schwartz Gallery, beacon of Australia’s contemporary art world, to close and rebrand

The gallery, opened in its current iteration in 1993, will be replaced by the new venture, Anna Schwartz Projects

At the Atlanta Art Fair's second edition, the city showed its strengths

The fair’s second edition brought in more visitors and featured strong presentations especially by local artists and of textile works

Sotheby’s sells York Avenue headquarters ahead of move to Breuer Building

The sale will help the auction house pay down debt, chief executive Charles F. Stewart told staff in an internal email

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How Tate's Emily Kam Kngwarray show is revealing the fraught market dynamics of Aboriginal art

Kngwarray's late but dazzling career changed perceptions of Aboriginal art. The curators of her retrospective explore how a sudden demand for her work reflects “complex histories and power dynamics in Australia”

Art Basel hires Christie's veteran for new collector and institutional relations role

Carly Murphy, who has been at Christie's since 2022 and previously worked at Sotheby's for more than a decade, will move to the fairs sector later this month