Art market
Tefaf's transplant takes root in New York
Contemporary art and a Surrealist feast are on the menu for second north American outing of Maastricht-based import
Frick shows that collecting is a scholarly subject
Center for the History of Collecting marks its first decade with book release and reveals ambitions to do more work with living collectors
Germany can now be sued for the return of Guelph Treasure, US court decides
Judge’s decision in Washington, DC—and new law—clear way for further claims on alleged Nazi loot from heirs of Holocaust victims
Spanish Royal Academy puts Goya’s Tauromaquia engravings on eBay
Etchings are among 36 Goyas that institution is selling on the site
Online stock exchange for art opens its virtual doors
London- and Prague-based online art trading platform launches full website this month
Object lessons, May 2017
From a H.G. Wells-inspired print by Moholy-Nagy to a prehistoric Native American birdstone, our top picks of notable sales at auctions and fairs
Frieze New York gets reframed for the post-truth era
Galleries will use fair as a platform for protest and cross-cultural dialogue
‘Brexit won't change anything,’ says Thaddaeus Ropac at opening of London gallery
Paris and Salzburg dealer launches new space with shows by Gilbert & George, Joseph Beuys, Oliver Beer and American Minimalists
Art Basel's film programme taps into political zeitgeist
Films about Islamic State, North Korea and the Black Lives Matter movement among highlights of curator Maxa Zoller's line-up
New faces at Art Cologne seize Berlin calendar clash opportunity
Gagosian and other newcomers more than fill the shoes of stay-at-home Berlin galleries
Sotheby’s first Modern and contemporary African art sale set to be a record-breaker
London auction includes 60 artists from 14 countries across the continent, with several making their debut
Object Lessons: studies in space and time, from an Andalusian astrolabe to a Sioux pictorial calendar
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Schiele’s landmark Danaë comes to auction at Sotheby’s
The mythological work is the artist’s first large-scale figural painting auctioned since 2001
Christie’s and Sotheby’s top Hiscox ranking of online platforms
Fine art insurer says future of digital market will be dictated by traditional players, not online-only rivals
Nowhere to hide: new tool brings technical firepower to the fight against fraudsters
Proprietary screening software will trawl the dark web for fakes and unauthorised copies sold online
Object Lessons: a 19th-century book of photographs of William Bradford's Arctic expeditions
Our pick of highlights from this week’s auctions
What's driving the growing interest in African art?
As exhibitions abound and a game-changing new museum gets ready to open in South Africa, the market looks set to follow
Art Cologne in advanced negotiations with Berlin's abc fair
A new fair called Art Berlin is scheduled to take place in September
Texas oil town is enjoying another boom—and this time it’s for art
Since the arrival of a contemporary fair jolted its local collecting scene, Dallas has gone from outpost to hot spot
Collectors reserve space as New York’s first art freeport prepares for summer launch
New facility offers museum-quality environment and cutting-edge security
Object lessons: Renate Bertlmann's performance photographs and Bosco Sodi's mixed-media work
Our pick of highlights from SP-Arte
Guinness family to auction Francesco Guardi Venetian view painting
Its companion piece sold for a record £26.7m in 2011
Object lessons: a Charles Nègre paper negative and a complete first edition of Goya's bullfight engravings
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions
Ropac seeks to unlock the hidden selling power of Joseph Beuys
The Austrian dealer will open his London gallery with work by the great German conceptualist, whose auction prices do not reflect his international stature
Dealers relieved to see Americans at Tefaf Maastricht
It’s too early to tell what the impact of New York editions will be as the majority of serious collectors at the fair are still from Europe