Art market

Made in Italy but open to the world: Florence antiques biennial's new director aims to draw an international crowd

More foreign dealers could help the fair attract a wider audience—with a little help from Jeff Koons

Fontana and Burri take centre stage in London’s galleries

Italian auctions trigger a surge in the country’s post-war art, and the city’s dealers answer the demand

Four reasons high-end design is back in style in London

After several stagnant years, the market for design is reviving

Maya Angelou's collection hits the block today

Author and civil rights activist believed that art “broadened" a person's perspective of the world

What to see during Berlin Art Week

The normally slow-paced city kicks into art overdrive this week with around 100 exhibitions and projects

How to walk away from the wild side

There is something refreshingly and unashamedly different about Michele Maccarone, the influential New York-based dealer who is preparing to open a 50,000 sq. ft space in Los Angeles this week

Parisian tribal art event opens up to major Asian art dealers

Twenty newcomers have joined Parcours des Mondes to create a parallel fair

Shepard Fairey creates new portraits for rock and roll show at Sotheby’s

London auction house will also sell photographs of famous musicians from Elvis to Mick Jagger and Madonna

The art fair the Istanbul Biennial wanted to squash

Art International opens today, but not everyone is celebrating

Five hundred years of printmaking comes to New York in November

Print fair offers works by blue-chip artists for a fraction of the price of their paintings

Second edition of Singapore Art Fair is scrapped

But discussions are underway about re-launching the event in 2016

Surfacing on the market: The Three Marys

Koller, Zurich, Italian Manuscript Illuminations, 18 September

Expo Chicago: Art goes above and beyond the gallery walls

The fair’s fourth edition will have works hanging from the ceiling, public art around the city and the first Greater Midwest Curatorial Forum

Surfacing on the market: Maya Angelou’s birthday quilt

Swann Galleries, New York, the Art Collection of Maya Angelou, 15 September

Shanghai art fairs join forces for art week

But city's first international fair, SH Contemporary, isn’t back this year

Sotheby’s bruised after ‘bumpy’ trading

New chief executive blames late sale schedule and exchange rates

Lawnews

Collectors vs art advisers: the trouble with verbal contracts

The Maleki case exposes the perils of mixing business with friendship in the art world

Surfacing on the market: painting with a political past

Bonhams, London, the South African Sale, 9 September

Online art sales are on the up—and so is fraud

Retailers need to do more to protect buyers from fraudsters selling fakes as online art businesses attract more investment

Lawnews

Will artist royalty rights go global?

Some say an international treaty will be fairer for all, others that it will mainly benefit the famous and dead