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Christie's South Kensington: the training ground where an industry learned its game

Art world power players add their voices to the eulogy for the well-loved secondary saleroom

Design auctions buck the downward trend

Expanded access via online platforms has boosted the market for the masters of Modernist furniture

Christie’s to hold first Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art sale in London

Auction house cuts Dubai October series as it looks to “internationalise” the sector's market

Galleries and programme confirmed for ninth Abu Dhabi Art fair

New curated section organised by Omar Kholeif aims to bring new works to Middle Eastern audiences

Report gauges state of art market in post-Brexit UK economy

Cross-border EU trade essential to maintain UK's position as second largest art hub, says British Art Market Federation

Santa Fe shows the contemporary side of folk art

Three-day event brings together artists updating their countries’ native craft traditions

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The future is handmade: Santa Fe's International Folk Art Market

This weekend's festival aims to be engine of economic change

In the wake of a wave of closures, galleries are adapting to survive

Dealers are rethinking the bricks-and-mortar model in favour of temporary, collaborative and virtual platforms

Damien Hirst banks on Venice show for his renaissance

Artist and his investor-collectors hope spectacular exhibition and plenty of spin will revive flagging market

The Armory Show moves forward a week, but the ADAA Art Show stays put

Rescheduling means Armory Week art fairs will be spread over two weeks in 2018

Breasts, bears and Barbie: what you might have missed in Hirst's Venice show

British artist has added a number of small inside jokes throughout vast exhibition

London poised to regain Old Master crown from New York

Sotheby’s offers its most valuable Old Master sale in London, and a Guardi painting at Christie’s could break records

Gary Hume creates new works for Sprüth Magers London reopening

German dealers to relaunch in expanded gallery in September after 18-month refurbishment

Record for Wolfgang Tillmans as Phillips and Bonhams achieve top results in contemporary sales

Auction houses capitalise on summer season of biennales and art fairs

Warhol's first 'selfie' sells for £6m at 'tight and solid' Sotheby’s sale

Successful contemporary auction calms nerves after Christie’s decision to cancel its own

Contemporary art ushers in visitors to Masterpiece

Art fair is attracting a younger crowd with its glamorous but collegial approach

Christie’s Impressionist and Modern sale falls short of goal but beats last year’s result by nearly 500%

Max Beckmann’s Birds’ Hell sells for a record £32m, with new highs also notched for Hannah Höch and Georges Vantongerloo

The ‘only annual biennial’: La Biennale Paris reveals details of 2017 edition

The first edition of the now yearly event, which changed its name of the Biennale des Antiquaires, opens in September

David Bowie’s Tintoretto altarpiece to return to Venice for 2019 Biennale

New research reveals underdrawing that dates the painting to a decade earlier than previously thought

Will the real Modigliani please stand up?

Modigliani Project aims to throw new light on a market bedevilled by fakes and squabbles

Gutai’s spectacular rise—and potential fall

After a show in Venice and sales in Paris a decade ago, US collectors started to take the post-war Japanese movement seriously and demand soared—but have prices peaked?