As British Columbia clamps down on foreign real estate investment, Chinese collectors are investing in contemporary Canadian art with "no expense spared”

Continuing Abstraction show will run off-site throughout the fair, featuring artists such as Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler and Theaster Gates

Max Levai will head up the newly consolidated global gallery as blue-chip dealers increase their real estate footprint and stretch their family legacies

She started off as an apprentice clown and did a stint as a currency trader, but it’s as a dealer in works of art in the vanguard of social change that Dominique Lévy has found her true calling

Our pick of highlights for sale over the next fortnight

The French Modern master’s oil painting Femme assise sur un balcon was withdrawn from a Canadian sale after bidding stalled below the reserve price

New commercial gallery shows—from notions of black culture in London to immigrant identity in Los Angeles

A successful second edition of the fair, with visits to houses and studios, and lots of collateral shows

Free of the high taxes and stringent customs of mainland China, the fair adds to a burgeoning art scene in South Korea's second largest city

Angus says he is also keen to buy MCH’s share in the India Art Fair as the group divests its regional art fair portfolio

Around 18,000 people invested in the now bankrupted company's manuscripts collection, but state says many items of historical importance should never have been sold

United Artists for Europe exhibition and auction will benefit cultural projects supporting heritage preservation across the continent, but Notre Dame is ruled out

Christie's American art sales this week realise a new record for Hartley but Sotheby's struggles to get the pricing right on Hopper's Shakespeare scene

Worthy causes can often disguise more opportunistic motives

People under the age of 22 account for 40% of consumers

Dana Schutz’s record broken twice in one night at Phillips then Sotheby's, while the bidder behind the $91m Koons Rabbit buys Lee Krasner painting for $10m

Draw Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery caters to fans of the quieter medium with a range of budgets

Post-war and contemporary sale in New York also produced a big sale for Robert Rauschenberg and new records for Louise Bourgeois and Jonas Wood

Market is alive and kicking at the top for prime Impressionist works, though Bouguereau's uncomfortably placed, 19th-century Bacchanalian scene failed to sell

Martin Summers recalls a long and eventful career in the trade

British artist says men should be able “to deal with women’s questions”, as first major solo show in China is announced

It has art schools, tradition, a culturally rich catchment area, and a true-grit backer

Fresh material from big collections led the $399m New York auction, while mid-tier Monets primed the market for his $55m haystacks work at Sotheby's tonight

Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions and fairs

The ruling was based on the loose business dealings of Hammer, the gallery and its parent company—like reimbursing him $2m for luxury cars

The Italian bank, which just announced €1.4bn profit in first quarter of 2019, will offload some of the 60,000 works of art in order to fund social initiatives

The collectors are seeking more than $300,000 in damages after the painting failed to be authenticated before heading to auction last year

Dealer, who started out mounting exhibitions in East End warehouses in the 1990s, has opted for a change of pace—and much larger space—in seaside town

Second edition of fair moves from tent to bricks-and-mortar in western China's 'skyrocketing' city