Art market
Can Marrakech's 1-54 art fair step into the breach of city's cancelled biennial?
New fair brings contemporary African art home, but jury is out as to whether a commercial event can replace a public exhibition
Sales at Arco Madrid unscathed by censorship controversy
Collectors praise fair's mix of politics, aesthetics and conceptual works
Object lessons: a Surrealist ménage à trois, a Yoruba princess and a rare Futurist painting
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
The Outsider Art Fair to launch first Basel edition this summer
The Basel programming may centre on Swiss art brut artists and institutions
Santiago Sierra work censored at Arco fair to be shown at Catalan museum
Media mogul Tatxo Benet says that censorship is damaging for artists—and the viewing public
Roy Lichtenstein painting hidden in private collection for 25 years to be unveiled
Frightened Girl is part of a London exhibition devoted to the Ben-Day dot technique commonly used in pulp fiction comics
First edition of 1-54 in Marrakech will attempt to lure Africa's collectors
London and New York fair opens at Winston Churchill’s favourite hotel La Mamounia this week
Cyborgs and utopias: Arco looks to the future
Arco Madrid is changing strategy for its 37th edition
Object lessons: a Surrealist room by Magritte, a zombie infestation by Coleman and a Navajo weaving from the collection of an oil heiress
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Art businesses ill-prepared for new EU data protection law
Data privacy is getting a long-overdue overhaul with GDPR, but is the art market ready?
Nato Thompson named artistic director of Seattle Art Fair
The Philadelphia-based curator sees opportunity to create dialogue between public artworks and the market
Middle Eastern artists are charging a lot of money to certify—or condemn—their works
But when does protecting a creative legacy go too far?
Düsseldorf gears up for the battle of the photography festivals
Düsseldorf Photo Weekend kicks off its seventh edition on 16 February
Surfacing on the market: from Giacometti to Le Corbusier
Our pick of objects from this month’s most interesting auctions
India Art Fair returns to its roots
New director Jagdip Jagpal pledges to maintain at least 70% Indian galleries at fiercely individual Delhi fair, where quality is rising but still patchy
Mexico City’s Material fair draws praise—and exhibitors from Zona Maco
As the main fair has become more blue-chip, the younger event has focused on fresh talent and a connection to the local scene
Object lessons: a neoclassical beauty in marble by Francesco Barzaghi, machine-age American grit and Josef Albers's Mexico
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Nomad St Moritz takes art and design to the Alps
Roaming mini-fair's second edition moves from Monaco to service wealthy skiing crowd
Artists would do well to invest in their own work, study says
New research suggests that artists may be better off retaining equity in their own work than investing in the stock market
India’s art market grows, despite demonetisation
Subcontinent’s art scene expands with the help of private money as government cleans up the economy and simplifies tax
Ivory-trade investigator Esmond Bradley Martin found murdered in Nairobi home
Former UN special envoy for rhino conservation was at the forefront of exposing scale of global black market for animal products
Object lessons: Venetian glass fit for Dior and a view of the last Spanish stronghold in Mexico
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Old Masters market shows some life in New York auctions
Leonardo buzz may have given bidding a boost, but results still show a sharp divide between the best and the rest
Is Frieze Los Angeles bound?
Rumour mill goes into overdrive as reports circulate of new event in January 2019 as fair's directors discuss options with West Coast dealers
Christie's reports global sales up 26%, to £5.1bn, in 2017
The increase comes from a rise in new online buyers and one very expensive Leonardo
Bond Street gallery exodus continues as London's Fine Art Society sells lease after 140 years
Soaring rents due to competition from fashion houses leads to reluctant decision to move from historic five-storey townhouse
Private view: our pick of February gallery shows
Noteworthy exhibitions at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talents
Ageing Picasso’s painting of lover and virile musketeer could make £18m at Christie's
Mousquetaire et nu assis is among highlights of London evening sale of Modern and Impressionist art in February
