Art market

The Armory Show reveals 230-gallery line-up and move to late September

Caribbean-focused curatorial programme and expanded sections for emerging galleries headline 2026 edition of the New York City fair

The ten most expensive Van Gogh paintings

‘Sunflowers’ does not make the list—and there are other surprises

James Cohan Gallery becomes Norr Cohan as founders step back

Longtime senior director David Norr assumes sole ownership following a years-long leadership transition

Christie’s and Sotheby’s 2026 half year results: trophy lots and luxury goods fuel rebound

Private sales and flexible financing arrangements are also helping the businesses shore up their bottom lines

Gus the T-Rex sells for a record $50.1m at Sotheby’s

One of the most complete fossilised skeletons of its kind beat the previous record, held by Ken Griffin’s Apex, by more than $5m

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Auction houses made significant recoveries in 2026, ArtTactic report finds

Data from Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips shows confidence from major single-owner sales is trickling down to the rest of the art market

Phillips counts on luxury watches for sales in first half of 2026

Three timepieces are among the house's top five highest-priced lots this year

Los Angeles's Post-Fair will expand to Paris during Art Basel week

The alternative fair’s first international edition will occupy two architecturally distinctive venues in the Marais

Sotheby’s partners with the Virgil Abloh Estate to sell a set of rare prints to fund university scholarships

The pieces come from a beloved 2015 collaboration between Abloh and his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Can a Riga fair foster a new generation of collectors in Latvia?

The Baltic state is bidding to bolster its nascent art market

Man jailed as Sotheby’s due diligence foils antiquities fraud

Andrew Crowley, based in Bristol in the UK, has been sentenced for trying to sell statues with forged provenance documents through the auction house in London

New York exhibition fundraising for Venezuelan earthquake relief efforts

More than 200 works on view at Henrique Faria Fine Art are on offer to raise funds for emergency aid in Venezuela through the World Central Kitchen

19th century bronze Laocoön leads London Old Master auctions, selling for £13.6m at Sotheby's

Work achieved the second highest price ever for a pre-Modern sculpture at auction, while Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the Duke of Wellington sold for an artist record £9.7m at Christie's

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Lévy Gorvy Dayan pioneers stand-alone strategy with sale of a single work

New York gallery responds to client needs by offering a $10m-plus de Kooning painting in attention-grabbing move

A dinosaur called Gus and a dramatic Highland landscape by Landseer: our pick of the July auctions

Plus an early version of the Statue of Liberty derived from the original plaster model of the landmark and an intimate, moody landscape by Milton Avery

Latin American commercial art space to launch in London this October

Founded by the Brazilian collector Flavia Nespatti, Antesala in Fitzrovia will combine selling shows of Latin American artists with an advisory and public programme

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Why one season of successful auctions won't transform the art market

While impressive results in New York and London suggest buoyancy at the very top end, further news of closures and downsizing illustrates the soaring costs facing bricks-and-mortar galleries

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What sold at Christie's London auction of controversial Zabludowicz collection?

Consigned from the holdings of Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, the £15.4m sale fell within estimate

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Sotheby's auction of Joe Lewis collection breaks record for most expensive sold in UK

Led by a once-scandalous Modigliani painting, the £296.3m London evening sale provided a bright spot for a market struggling with concerns of Brexit and overseas competition

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London's ailing June art season is heating up, thanks to homegrown efforts

Beleaguered by Brexit, this year, record auctions and a promising crop of fairs and events are helping to boost the week

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From the Hamptons to Saint-Tropez: design fairs PAD and Nomad follow the sun

Nomad co-founder and director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte describes the fair as “a resort concept”

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A decade on: Brexit’s impact on the UK art market

Experts weigh in on the effect that the 2016 vote to leave the EU has had on the trade

Across Art Basel, the art world celebrates David Hockney

Multiple galleries at the fair have brought works by the late British artist whose market was “booming when we lost him”

Mexican authorities urge Sotheby’s to stop sale of two pre-Columbian artefacts

The objects, a stone mask and an intricate ceramic figure, are scheduled to be auctioned Thursday morning in New York

Dealer David Nahmad given 30 days to return Nazi-looted Modigliani painting

The $30m work has been the subject of almost a dozen years of legal battles

How Liste has moved beyond its reputation as Basel’s ’young fair’

As the market catches up with the ultra-contemporary art championed by Liste Art Fair Basel for decades, the fair includes artists who have found success later in life

Buyers snap up blue-chip works at Art Basel’s opening day

A $35m Picasso led first-day sales, while galleries reported strong seven-figure results across both historic and contemporary material

Prize for emerging artists at Art Basel quietly cancelled

Dealers in the fair's Statements section say they were informed at the last minute that the Baloise Art Prize has been discontinued

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Asian antiquities are gaining a younger following—will it last? 

Sales are booming as Millennial and Gen-Z collectors are taking a shine to historical artefacts