Art market
From the archive: Why the art world is crazy about Cranach
New technology is shedding light on an Old Master as the prolific, multi-talented artist enjoys a renaissance
West Coast wave of Ai Weiwei shows puts Chinese artist in Los Angeles spotlight
Activist launches Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery and will show works with talent agency UTA
Owner of £10m Giotto to appeal High Court ruling that painting left Italy unlawfully
Judge finds in favour of Arts Council England, but collector Kathleen Simonis argues Italian laws are incompatible with EU free movement of goods
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks’s home is on the (auction) block with a $1m-$3m price tag
Detroit house was saved in 2016 by the US artist Ryan Mendoza and Parks’s niece Rhea McCauley
Christie’s reports record half year sales of £2.97bn
Rockefeller auction plus leap in private and online sales drive 26% increase
Beijing’s Caochangdi galleries given two weeks’ notice to relocate ahead of demolition
Among those affected are the Hong Kong-based de Sarthe Gallery, which opened in Beijing in 2014, and X Gallery
Will blockchain deliver a registry of all traded works of art?
Christie’s summit weighs up pros and cons of the technology and how it might bring greater transparency to the art market
Unpaid invoices, vetting issues and bad marketing: dealers call out ‘mismanaged’ Bahrain fair
Despite a group of exhibitors describing Art Bahrain Across Borders as disappointing, royal patron says event will continue
US dealers move against Trump’s proposed 10% tariff on Chinese art and antiques
Public hearings on the government’s plans are due to be held in Washington, DC in August
White Cube appoints Warhol expert Eric Shiner artistic director in New York
Is the London-based gallery growing its US team to open an exhibition space there?
Art Basel owner to launch contemporary art fair ART SG in Singapore next year
MCH Group expands burgeoning roster of international art fairs with annual November event
Banksy painting sells for record £1.5m as ‘greatest hits’ show opens at London gallery
Prices for larger works by the Bristolian street artist could fetch more than £5m
Appeals court largely strikes down California’s artist resale rights law
The decision limits the rule to a narrow one-year window of secondary market sales—but what does it mean for the future of droit de suite in the US?
More than just a pretty face: furrowed brows win at Christie's patchy Old Master sale, but £6.7m sculpture tops paintings
Tacca's Hercules is star of the bronzes, while Carracci's military portrait and Rembrandt's print find favour where Rubens's daughter flounders in £31.1m sale
From project space to mega dealer: Jay Jopling celebrates 25 years of White Cube
Hong Kong show features rarely seen archival material, while 23 artists have made new works for an exhibition dedicated to memory in London
Guarantees, the Beckham effect and warts-and-all portraits: Sotheby's pulls off a consistent Old Master sale
No big hitters, but overall quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America buoyed £42.6m auction, with £5.3m record for Canova set in day sale
Otto Naumann comes out of 'retirement' to join Sotheby's
Veteran Old Master dealer will join the auction house in New York at the end of the summer, months after selling his inventory there
Glut of sculpture in London auctions, despite Giambologna withdrawal
Bronze and marble take centre stage during Old Masters sales week, although Dresden Mars returns home without going on the block at Sotheby's
German government steps in to buy Giambologna as minister says Bayer should have donated it to ‘people of Dresden’
Sotheby’s withdrew bronze sculpture of Mars from auction at last minute
Old Master saga: expert hired by vendor to prove Saint Jerome's authenticity says it is a fake
Maurizio Seracini concurs that the painting sold by Sotheby’s in 2012 is a modern forgery
Re-discoveries, the Holy Grail of Old Master dealers: we pick out four at London Art Week
From a Van Dyck once thought to be by Rubens to William Nicholson's portrait of an actress identified only weeks ago
Myrna Ayad steps down as Art Dubai director, while fair plans to move Modern section in 2019
Ayad says decision to leave was "personal" and plans to launch her own art consultancy
Guy Wildenstein cleared of tax evasion for a second time in Paris
Franco-American scion of art dealing dynasty was accused of hiding art and other property worth hundreds of millions of euros from French authorities
Tefaf brings management of New York fairs under European control as Artvest agreement ends
Netherlands-based organisation will oversee events as two-year agreement with US firm expires, but Michael Plummer and Jeff Rabin remain as shareholders
From Marina Abramovic's face to a butcher's shop diorama, early sales at Masterpiece London
UK capital's heatwave lends a relaxed summer atmosphere to cross-collecting fair, where deals are done at a slower tempo than at contemporary events
London’s contemporary art summer season in flux as middle market comes out on top
Christie’s introduces day sale format and established names give way to new talent
Private View: our pick of July and August gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from Canova's prank portrait of Giorgione to a feminist take on Pop art
New initiative aims to increase social mobility and diversity in the art industry
Easel will offer careers information, a mentorship programme and a grant scheme to subsidise low wages in entry level roles
Lucian Freud’s late reclining nude makes London record at £22.5m
Artist was 80 years old when he began the painting of a former Tate cataloguer
Frieze focus on women who challenged the male-dominated 1980s art market
New section at London fair will explore artists who railed against "the idea that genius resided solely in masculinity"





























