Gaurav Bhatia is co-operating in "formal enquiry" ahead of auction house’s inaugural sale in Mumbai today

The firm's third gallery will oversee its Shanghai office as well as representatives in Taiwan and Korea

For Frieze Projects, artists including Barbara Kruger and Paul McCarthy will create site-specific works within Paramount Pictures Studios's fake New York city

Under president Xi Jinping's increasingly stringent regime, galleries must negotiate a slow and capricious approval process to show works of art

A painting of the University of Toronto lab where he co-discovered insulin goes for ten times its high estimate in Toronto

Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions

The process of art attribution has come under attack, with forgery scandals rampant

The auction houses sell more than 80% of works priced over $1m at auction—can an underdog ever wrestle market share away from them?

Auction house is yet to announce a successor, while Outred says he is taking time out to consider offers

Native American official calls planned auction of the items “unconscionable”

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Heinrich von Spreti will serve as interim managing director until a replacement is found

The young art fair re-opened in a new San Juan venue after Hurricane Maria damage

A monumental painting of the American West by Emanuel Leutze breaks records while works by Rockwell and Hopper flop

His business Mayfair Fine Art went into administration earlier this year following FBI sting operation

Now painting under his own name, Beltracchi's works are part of a selling exhibition currently touring Europe

The auction houses' bottom lines suffered from unsold lots, continuing a trend of top-lot discernment during New York’s fall sales

The Yorkshireman's 1970s Californian scene, Portrait of an Artist, sold on the nose at $80m at Christie's in New York last night

Broadening the sales strategy for Latin American art has been a positive move for some artists' markets

Dr Frederick Banting wanted to take up art full-time, but he was killed in a plane crash during the Second World War

With only two lots unsold, the auction house nets $362.6m in evening of avid bidding

A double pool portrait, estimated at $80m and offered at Christie’s with no reserve, could set a record for the most expensive work by a living artist

At $317.8m, the Ebsworth evening sale becomes one of the top five most valuable collections ever sold at auction

Nineteen of the accused in Operation Demetra face trial in December, while the alleged UK mastermind awaits extradition

Monet carries Christie's evening sale while a Magritte shines at Sotheby's, marking an auction record for the Surrealist painter

Contemporary fair has reinvented itself after scaling back and moving to a November slot, although it has lost some big name exhibitors

It may be known as a haven, but buyers in the grand duchy pay 17% tax, fair director says

Two works supposedly owned by bankrupt company, whose director Matthew Green resigned in February following FBI sting operation, are "apparently" in Dubai

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Third-party auction deals have made some people very rich—but they may be bad for the market in the long run