Art market
Rule of law: Legal tips for art lovers
From new exhibitor regulations at Art Basel in Miami Beach to questions over insurance and taxes
When do satellite fairs become space junk?
With at least 19 such events taking place during Art Basel in Miami Beach this year, have we reached "peak fair"?
Late artists finally get their due at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Galleries at the fair are giving lesser-known deceased artists the credit they deserve
Jump-bidding for Rembrandt's fingerprints and a tale of two Van Dycks: dispatches from London's Old Master auctions
Christie's and Sotheby's sell near identical Van Dyck portraits of Princess Mary, and new records are set for Frans Hals and a jolly Judith Leyster
Are super-yachts the best places to keep your art collection?
From conservation and insurance to customs and tax issues, the complications of keeping art on boats
In debt we trust: the rise of art-secured lending
The rapid growth in the number of loan providers, from private banks to specialist lenders, could transform the art market’s relationship with the financial markets
'Will art market speculation ever go away?'
Fifteen years on since we first reported from Art Basel in Miami Beach, art as an investment has taken a new form
Glenn Gould’s Bach hits the auction block
The late pianist’s 1981 annotated score of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is the first of his manuscripts to come to market
Adam Chinn to leave Sotheby's after chief operating officer role is 'eliminated'
Former deal-maker, who joined the auction house in 2016 with the acquisition of Art Agency, Partners, will leave on 31 December
Object Lessons: from children's book illustrations to a bronze-cast scooter by Subodh Gupta
Our pick of highlights from December's auctions
$1.3m worth of ivory seized in California—the largest haul since a ban was adopted in the state
The Carlton Gallery of San Diego and a nearby warehouse had hundreds of pieces
Object Lessons: London Old Master week
Tis the season for Old Masters: here are three works to seek out, from a mythological marriage portrait to Annibale Carracci's sketch on an old account book
Head of Sotheby’s India takes 'indefinite leave' following #MeToo allegations
Gaurav Bhatia is co-operating in "formal enquiry" ahead of auction house’s inaugural sale in Mumbai today
Lévy Gorvy to launch Hong Kong headquarters next March
The firm's third gallery will oversee its Shanghai office as well as representatives in Taiwan and Korea
Fairytale of New York in La-La land—artists to take over film set at Frieze Los Angeles
For Frieze Projects, artists including Barbara Kruger and Paul McCarthy will create site-specific works within Paramount Pictures Studios's fake New York city
Censorship could stifle China's art market
Under president Xi Jinping's increasingly stringent regime, galleries must negotiate a slow and capricious approval process to show works of art
Record set in Canada for Nobel Prize-winning doctor and artist Frederick Banting
A painting of the University of Toronto lab where he co-discovered insulin goes for ten times its high estimate in Toronto
The highs and lows of New York ‘gigaweek’
Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions
Art authentication is not an exact science
The process of art attribution has come under attack, with forgery scandals rampant
Why the Christie's and Sotheby's duopoly is impregnable
The auction houses sell more than 80% of works priced over $1m at auction—can an underdog ever wrestle market share away from them?
Christie’s head of post-war art in Europe Francis Outred leaves after ten years
Auction house is yet to announce a successor, while Outred says he is taking time out to consider offers
Auction house pulls seven objects from American Indian sale amid protests
Native American official calls planned auction of the items “unconscionable”
Object Lessons: from a Song Dynasty scroll that could smash auction records to a small but foxy 19th-century garment toggle
Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe
Sotheby’s Germany chief Philipp von Württemberg resigns
Heinrich von Spreti will serve as interim managing director until a replacement is found
Exhibitors see steady sales at the second edition of Puerto Rico's MECA art fair
The young art fair re-opened in a new San Juan venue after Hurricane Maria damage
Downright quirky appetite for American masters at Sotheby's
A monumental painting of the American West by Emanuel Leutze breaks records while works by Rockwell and Hopper flop
London dealer Matthew Green accused of selling art used to secure more than £2m in loans
His business Mayfair Fine Art went into administration earlier this year following FBI sting operation
Notorious forger Wolfgang Beltracchi on ethics, the art market and how to make a great fake
Now painting under his own name, Beltracchi's works are part of a selling exhibition currently touring Europe
Phillips and Bonhams see strong sales on smaller lots
The auction houses' bottom lines suffered from unsold lots, continuing a trend of top-lot discernment during New York’s fall sales
Hockney sets new auction record for a living artist, but were strings pulled behind the no-reserve sale?
The Yorkshireman's 1970s Californian scene, Portrait of an Artist, sold on the nose at $80m at Christie's in New York last night