Art market
Seven of the best at this year’s Masterpiece fair
Exhibitors cater to the luxury goods crowd but fine art still takes centre stage
Joana Vasconcelos creates new work for selling show at Phillips London
Auction house is contributing towards the artist’s production costs
There is no single, global art market
New book explores some of the myths of the international trade
Paolo Scheggi, an Italian artist you’re going to hear more of
Record prices spark interest in protagonist of Milan art scene
Golden generation of 1960s Royal College of Art students has shows across London
Neil Stokoe, R.B Kitaj and David Hockney were in the same year
Artist chronicles fight with Louis Vuitton
Book tells of Nadia Plesner’s three-year battle to clear her name after luxury fashion company took offence at her drawing of a designer bag
Gauguin painting’s $300m price tag may have been confirmed
Museo Reina Sofia acknowledges eye-watering figure in press statement
Rare exhibition of Rodin sculptures to open in London
Only works produced in artist’s lifetime will be included
Calls to open looted-art archives grow louder
Museums and the trade want to put an end to the Catch-22 situation with Medici and Becchina
There is method in the madness, even in a boom
Changing tastes, as much as changing economic conditions, could bring a halt to the seemingly inexorable rise at the top end of the market
Surfacing on the market: Le Corbusier’s souvenir of Sydney
Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Jørn Utzon Collection, 9-11 June
Images from the dark days of colonial rule
Collection of politically inspired works by artists from the Congo on the market
On Avenue Matignon, art is no longer in vogue
Luxury boutiques are chasing out the galleries from their Paris addresses
Surfacing on the market: the other Fabergé
Doyle, New York, Belle Epoque: 19th- and 20th-century Decorative Arts, 3 June
Berlin galleries join forces to stay in the game
Increasing pressure to grow is pushing mid-tier galleries to find new ways to remain competitive
Art Basel: an old fair gets a new(ish) look
This year’s edition offers a more logical layout and a green Messeplatz project
‘Commerce is in. If real estate is booming, art is booming’
Property tycoon Aby Rosen, promoting his new Manhattan skyscraper, talks about art-world fatigue and giving something back to society
Lagos collector plans private museum to house 1,500 works
Retired stockbroker began buying in 1967
It shouldn’t happen to a vetter
How experts make sure that everything at Masterpiece is authentic and that the fair lives up to its name, using everything <br> from connoisseurship to scientific techniques and sensory tests—and what happens when they smell a rat<br>
MoMA struggles to fulfil sculptor’s last wishes
Scott Burton left his estate to the New York museum—but prices for his work have tumbled