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

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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

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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

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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

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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