Art market

Saudi Arabiaanalysis

Why the inaugural Art Week Riyadh was a fair in everything but name

The event saw 32 galleries take part to test out Saudi Arabia's growing art market—but organisers maintain it was a non-commercial venture

Expo Chicago connects the Midwest to the global art market

For its second edition under Frieze’s ownership, the Windy City’s art fair aims to extend its international impact, including deepening ties with Korean galleries

San Francisco Art Fair brings attention to Bay Area scene and sales for exhibitors from near and far

The fair’s programming included events with local institutions and stands devoted to non-profits and collectives

Nova Contemporary gallery taps into Thailand’s burgeoning market

The Bangkok space opens new premises this month, ahead of major new private museum Dib Bangkok

David Geffen files countersuit against Justin Sun as collectors' fight over $78m Giacometti escalates

Geffen's countersuit comes two months after Sun, the crypto investor and buyer of Cattelan's Comedian, sued claiming ownership of the sculpture Le Nez

Art marketanalysis

Regional strength helps insulate Art Dubai from tariff-related turbulence

Lower price points and Dubai's enduring status as a tax haven buoyed sales

Basquiat's family portrait painting could bring $30m at Christie's auction

The painting "Baby Boom" was featured in one of the artist's first solo exhibitions at Fun Gallery

Qatari sheikh wins case against Phoenix Ancient Art over allegedly forged antiquity

The New York- and Geneva-based gallery says it will appeal the ruling in the case brought by Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah al-Thani

Monet riverscape could splash down for more than $30m during New York auctions

The painting headed to Christie's, "Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule", was on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for more than 30 years

Faith Ringgold’s estate is now represented by Jack Shainman Gallery

The gallery will stage an exhibition of the late artist’s work in November

New app for antiques dealers hopes to make streamlining inventory ‘less daunting’

Online software platform Ronati Studio, which is aimed primarily at vendors of antiques and collectable artefacts, manages inventory from acquisition to resale

Collector’s eye: the art Reem al Roubi has bought and why

The Dubai-based Sudanese patron of major museums explains how she has expanded her collecting horizons from African to Middle Eastern art

Art Dubai is cementing its position as the region’s key art market

As the UAE’s art scene continues to grow, Art Dubai is looking to expand too, including expanding its Downtown Design event to Saudi Arabia next month

Art marketanalysis

Is the art market coming to the end of the age of eternal growth?

Further weak auction results, plus economic turmoil, raise fears the trade may have passed its peak

Dealer Daniella Luxembourg to sell $30m of art from personal collection at auction

The sale at Sotheby's New York next month includes works by Lucio Fontana, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg

Dallas Art Fair offers first test of collectors’ appetites amid Trump’s trade war

A tight-knit community of patrons and a resilient state economy keep sales strong in Dallas despite macroeconomic headwinds

Trump turns on museums and libraries, the art market’s 12% fall, Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett—podcast

What are the implications of the US president’s attempts to gut and transform arts organisations? Plus, discussions about the Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report 2025 and works by two leading Irish modernists

Warhol electric chair canvas could bring $30m during New York auction season

Christie's will offer the rose-hued “Big Electric Chair” from the collection of influential Belgian art patrons Roger Matthys and Hilda Colle

Billionaire collector Thomas Kaplan to sell Rembrandt lion drawing to raise funds for wildlife conservation

Young Lion Resting, which went on show in Amsterdam this week, could approach a record price for a work on paper at auction next year

The Dallas Art Fair is ‘a new front’ for dealers

The Texas fair has a record of resilience, largely shielded from economic dips that affected the US at large, but this year’s edition will be the art market's first major test since President Trump's new tariffs

Global art sales plummeted by 12% in 2024, latest Art Basel/UBS report finds

A cooling contemporary market and lack of high-end sales has contributed to another “challenging year”, in which sales fell in almost every region

‘We are in uncharted territory’: Trump’s tariffs scramble art trade

There is widespread confusion about whether or not new US tariffs—and those imposed by trading partners in retaliation—apply to art and antiques

Art marketanalysis

Why five years after the pandemic, art fairs are still in recovery

Art market experts believe fairs might need a radical rethink in order to remain viable

Art marketanalysis

'Alarming situation': Tax issues dominate discussions at Milan's Miart fair

While a 22% VAT rate is a pressing issue for the art trade in Italy, the country is also benefitting from the arrival of wealthy individuals from the UK

UK’s new sanctions reporting regime tightens screws on struggling dealers

While the US appears to be relaxing some of its anti-money laundering provisions, the British government has labelled the art market as high risk and introduced a legal requirement to increase due diligence in the sector

Could the future of the art market lie in antiques?

There was an uptick in sales of traditional art at last month's Tefaf Maastricht fair

‘We haven’t stopped a minute’: foreign collectors and curators fuel buoyant start at SP-Arte, Brazil's biggest fair

The São Paulo fair is benefiting from renewed interest in art from the Global South, says founder Fernanda Feitosa, thanks in part to Adriano Pedrosa’s 2024 Venice Biennale

Gagosian to stage first Willem de Kooning show in 12 years

The gallery brought on Cecilia Alemani to curate the show, which will span five decades

A Robert Frank photo he saw as ‘threatening’ and a ghostly Dalí painting: our pick of the April auctions

Plus Dürer’s engraving of Nemesis and a painting by one of China’s greatest Modern artists

The Insidersanalysis

Mystery in Manhattan: why New York galleries are turning to intrigue this spring

Several dealers are taking a “less is more” attitude by, for example, giving little away in press releases—and it’s making a notable difference