Art market

This summer’s hottest lawsuits

During an unusually hectic few months, law firms have been kept busy representing multiple clients

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Biennale des Antiquaires draws new blood from Old Masters

Historic fair revamps exhibitor list after merger with Paris Tableau

Auction house results confirm global art market downturn

Overall sales volume is down, but Sotheby’s sees profits rise and welcomes a new Chinese investor

‘Mixed feelings’ as Brian Sewell’s treasure trove is to be dispersed

Auction of the late art critic’s collection inspires sadness­—but excitement too

Three to See: Chart art fair, Copenhagen

From Brian Eno’s lower register to distinguished Danish design

Contemporary art fair comes to Warsaw's historic Palace of Culture

New event in Soviet relic casts an eye beyond Polish borders

New affordable-art website Collectionair backed by curatorial big-hitters

Former director of Pompidou among names behind online platform, which sells works for under $10,000<br> <br>

Artist Pension Trust makes first financial distribution

Sales from the 14,000-work collection will continue

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Art Stage Jakarta makes its debut

Singapore spin-off focuses on Indonesian art

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What summer slowdown? Seattle Art Fair expands

The event draws blue-chip galleries from across the US to the Pacific Northwest

Bortolami creates US-wide mini-Marfas

Artists given non-traditional spaces and free rein to put on shows

Experts shed light on Modigliani's murky market with new research project

Fakes and squabbles have long-obscured scholarship, but a catalogue raisonné may now be in the pipeline

Object lessons: from an ancient Greek coin to a chronicle of English kings

Dealers and auction houses stage selling shows during the art world's summer break

How far can developers gentrify the artist hub of Red Hook?

New projects are looming, but there are still around 150 artists’ studios in the Brooklyn neighbourhood

Helena Newman named chairman of Sotheby’s Europe in staff restructure

A slew of new posts includes the appointment of museum professional Eric Shiner to the Fine Arts division

London dealer Timothy Taylor to launch New York gallery

The gallerist’s new space, which opens this autumn, fills the ground floor of a Chelsea townhouse

London Art Week: our top five picks

A selection of objects that reflect the variety of art on offer, both in terms of price and medium

Object lessons: best of London's Old Master auctions

From a poetic Claude landscape to Rubens's masterpiece depicting biblical incest, here's our pick of this week's sales

The market looks vulnerable as the summer break begins

As a busy, but thinner, season draws to a close in the wake of Brexit, uncertainty is the order of the day