Art market

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

More than a third of dealers in London Art Fair survey say rising rents pose biggest threat to UK market

But 85% say market for Modern British and contemporary art will remain as strong or fare better in 2016

Crowdfunding offers small investors the lure of big art

Financing model is better known in the tech world

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London’s emerging galleries host exhibitors from abroad

Condo event offers international colleagues an alternative to expensive art fairs

Paula Cooper: still driving the New York scene, 50 years on

The pioneering dealer says her gallery is just a mom-and-pop shop—and that’s exactly how she wants it

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Sotheby’s buys prestigious art advisory firm in $85m deal

Founders of Art Agency, Partners will head up new department, along with Marc Porter, former Americas chairman at Christie’s

The price is right? Galleries would ‘rather not say’

Many dealers leave potential customers in the dark, allowing auction houses to define the market

Widespread forgery of avant-garde artist exposed at Russian Art Week

Expert says nearly 95% of Natalia Goncharova’s 1901-13 oil paintings are fake

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Owner of purported Monet loses case in French court

Work featured on BBC’s Fake or Fortune programme in 2011

Long-awaited Wildenstein trial postponed due to legal technicality

Art dealing dynasty facing tax and money laundering charges

Hong Kong’s art market falls even further away from its peak

More auctions than ever cement city’s position as hub of art sales in Asia, but outlook for the coming year remains subdued

Moscow museum transformed into commercial operation

Igor Markin, the founder of Art4.ru, says he wants “to sell brazenly.”

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Wildenstein tax evasion and money laundering trial begins

Case could shine spotlight on how some in the art world use trusts and tax havens

Slim pickings from Old Masters sales in a lukewarm London

Most of the consignments this season were really not up to scratch, with Christie’s, in particular, taking something of a beating

The perennial problem of backlog

From our archives: Ten years ago this month, Dealers send unsold Old Masters to Sotheby’s

Our new year’s resolution for 2016 is to keep striving for transparent reporting

The Art Newspaper plans to strip away the discrepancy between auction estimates, which do not include commission, and results, which do

Five predictions for the art market in 2016

Lay-offs at auction houses, terrorism in Europe and luxury art experiences for all

Silicon Valley in Pace’s sights as place to put down roots

Pop-up space in neighbouring Menlo Park is due for demolition