Art market
Why is the art market like a carousel?
Academic Olav Velthuis says growing a scene is “hard and tedious; but once it gets going it gets easier”
Out-of-towners stay out-of-sight at Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair
But the event delivers for local curators and collectors looking for some of the city’s best artists and galleries
Top Sydney gallerist launches blistering attack on the art world
Evan Hughes, son of founder Ray, is closing the Hughes Gallery and running for office
Art Loss Register faces competition complaint from Art Recovery Group
Gloves come off in fight to run international database of stolen works of art
Contemporary art market cools, but Modern sector heats up at Christie’s in 2015
Middle market helps deliver auction house’s second highest results in 250-year history
Taubman collection was a gamble that did not pay off for Sotheby’s
President Tad Smith reveals that the auction house expects to lose between $10m to $19m in the fourth quarter due to sale guarantees for the former owner’s art
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
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
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
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.”
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
Three contemporary art collectors to know in Taiwan
Art lovers with international visions