Art market

Sex Pistols photographer accuses artist Elizabeth Peyton of copyright infringement

Dennis Morris is considering legal action over painting removed from Sotheby’s day sale last week

Lawnews

American Airlines and seven others sued over damage to Lucio Fontana sculpture

Concetto Spaziale was being shipped from France to the Armory Show in New York last year

Melanie Clore to leave Sotheby’s at the end of February

Decision by respected Impressionist and Modern art specialist, after 35 years of passion and loyalty, comes as a surprise

Middle market shines through during week of uncertainty at London auctions

Cautious estimates at Bonhams and Christie’s produce solid results in cooling market

Stolen mosque lamps to return to Egypt as Cairo museum houses new database

Authorities confirmed the objects had been taken from national collection and fakes left in their place

Blain Southern celebrates five years in Berlin

To mark the anniversary, the gallery is showing all the artists it has worked with in Germany

Tefaf Maastricht doubles down with New York expansion

Dutch fair teams with US advisory firm to bring two more editions to the marketplace

Artnews

Art in shopping malls: it’s all product after all

Art has long been hitched to luxury goods, but it is now becoming a more democratic—or commercial—concept as malls begin to incorporate exhibition space

Artnews

Wildenstein can’t be forced to recognise disputed Monet

French court will not intervene over work that was championed by BBC’s Fake or Fortune

Artnews

Sotheby’s pays top dollar for the art world’s best address book

Auction house buys art advisers in surprise $85m deal

Artnews

Why is the art market like a carousel?

Academic Olav Velthuis says growing a scene is “hard and tedious; but once it gets going it gets easier”

Out-of-towners stay out-of-sight at Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair

But the event delivers for local curators and collectors looking for some of the city’s best artists and galleries

Artnews

Top Sydney gallerist launches blistering attack on the art world

Evan Hughes, son of founder Ray, is closing the Hughes Gallery and running for office

Art Loss Register faces competition complaint from Art Recovery Group

Gloves come off in fight to run international database of stolen works of art

Contemporary art market cools, but Modern sector heats up at Christie’s in 2015

Middle market helps deliver auction house’s second highest results in 250-year history

Taubman collection was a gamble that did not pay off for Sotheby’s

President Tad Smith reveals that the auction house expects to lose between $10m to $19m in the fourth quarter due to sale guarantees for the former owner’s art

The show must go on at Brussels Art Fair

Despite the security lockdown in the Belgian capital in November, Europe’s oldest art fair is back with an expanded, more international edition