Art market

Dealer Daniella Luxembourg to sell $30m of art from personal collection at auction

The sale at Sotheby's New York next month includes works by Lucio Fontana, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg

Dallas Art Fair offers first test of collectors’ appetites amid Trump’s trade war

A tight-knit community of patrons and a resilient state economy keep sales strong in Dallas despite macroeconomic headwinds

Trump turns on museums and libraries, the art market’s 12% fall, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett—podcast

What are the implications of the US president’s attempts to gut and transform arts organisations? Plus, discussions about the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report 2025 and works by two leading Irish modernists

Warhol electric chair canvas could bring $30m during New York auction season

Christie's will offer the rose-hued “Big Electric Chair” from the collection of influential Belgian art patrons Roger Matthys and Hilda Colle

Billionaire collector Thomas Kaplan to sell Rembrandt lion drawing to raise funds for wildlife conservation

Young Lion Resting, which went on show in Amsterdam this week, could approach a record price for a work on paper at auction next year

The Dallas Art Fair is ‘a new front’ for dealers

The Texas fair has a record of resilience, largely shielded from economic dips that affected the US at large, but this year’s edition will be the art market's first major test since President Trump's new tariffs

Global art sales plummeted by 12% in 2024, latest Art Basel/UBS report finds

A cooling contemporary market and lack of high-end sales has contributed to another “challenging year”, in which sales fell in almost every region

‘We are in uncharted territory’: Trump’s tariffs scramble art trade

There is widespread confusion about whether or not new US tariffs—and those imposed by trading partners in retaliation—apply to art and antiques

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Why five years after the pandemic, art fairs are still in recovery

Art market experts believe fairs might need a radical rethink in order to remain viable

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'Alarming situation': Tax issues dominate discussions at Milan's Miart fair

While a 22% VAT rate is a pressing issue for the art trade in Italy, the country is also benefitting from the arrival of wealthy individuals from the UK

UK’s new sanctions reporting regime tightens screws on struggling dealers

While the US appears to be relaxing some of its anti-money laundering provisions, the British government has labelled the art market as high risk and introduced a legal requirement to increase due diligence in the sector

Could the future of the art market lie in antiques?

There was an uptick in sales of traditional art at last month's Tefaf Maastricht fair

‘We haven’t stopped a minute’: foreign collectors and curators fuel buoyant start at SP-Arte, Brazil's biggest fair

The São Paulo fair is benefiting from renewed interest in art from the Global South, says founder Fernanda Feitosa, thanks in part to Adriano Pedrosa’s 2024 Venice Biennale

Gagosian to stage first Willem de Kooning show in 12 years

The gallery brought on Cecilia Alemani to curate the show, which will span five decades

A Robert Frank photo he saw as ‘threatening’ and a ghostly Dalí painting: our pick of the April auctions

Plus Dürer’s engraving of Nemesis and a painting by one of China’s greatest Modern artists

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Mystery in Manhattan: why New York galleries are turning to intrigue this spring

Several dealers are taking a “less is more” attitude by, for example, giving little away in press releases—and it’s making a notable difference

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Long undervalued, Bangladeshi artists begin to rise at auction

Modernist paintings by artists such as Zainul Abedin and Mohammad Kibria soared past their estimates at recent sales in New York

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Slim Hong Kong evening sales at Christie's and Sotheby's draw solid results for a 'tough season'

Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery

New York print fairs see new energy and an influx of young collectors

The IFPDA Print Fair's crowded preview and the launch of the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair echo recent signals that the medium is increasingly in demand

Canadian gallery sues Norval Morrisseau’s estate for breach of contract and defamation, seeking $1m

EA Studios alleges that the estate and its director bad-mouthed the Calgary-based gallery in an attempt to steal its customers

Rising Ethiopian artist Merikokeb Berhanu’s gallery joins forces with two major dealers to help her go global

The gallery Addis Fine Art, which has branches in Ethiopia and London, has partnered with Esther Schipper and James Cohan to promote Berhanu internationally, which shows the positive potential of shared representation

Energy returns to a changed Art Basel Hong Kong

While there were fewer US collectors, and Chinese spending remains lower, the increased Southeast Asian presence and an "exponential growth" of Gen Z buyers is notable at this year's edition of the fair

Collector's eye: the art Cherry Xu has bought and why

The cultural entrepreneur, who is based in Shanghai, platforms young and emerging artists. Here, she discusses her journey in art, her passion for Frida Kahlo and the culinary delicacies not to miss during the fair

Our pick of the shows to see during Hong Kong art week

From Sin Wai Kin's latest video works to Sarah Sze's first solo exhibition in Asia

The latest Hong Kong art hot spot: Wong Chuk Hang on the Southside

The up-and-coming area has seen a boost to its local art organisations and gallery offering due to the pandemic and increased transport links

Jessica Chastain and Adam Driver will play a gallerist and her artist in new television series

The art world is taking Hollywood by storm, and ‘The Dealer’ is the latest project to get the green light

In her comeback show, painter Seung Ah Paik renders her body as a map

After stepping away from the art world and starting a family, the artist is having her first solo show in New York with Gratin and showing two new paintings at Art Basel Hong Kong with Bortolami

Basquiat to Chagall: Hong Kong's international auction houses turn to household names during art week

As mainland Chinese art buying continues its post-pandemic contraction, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are pivoting from ultra-contemporary Western artists towards tried-and-tested 19th- and 20th-century big hitters

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Tariff time: what Trump’s new levies mean for Hong Kong’s art trade

As Art Basel Hong Kong opens, local dealers are staying watchful over the financial impacts of the American trade war

Frieze Masters appoints Emanuela Tarizzo as director

The art adviser and former director at Tomasso gallery takes the reins from Nathan Clements-Gillespie at a pivotal time for Frieze, which is presently being considered for sale