Art market

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

Murakami organises Japanese ceramics exhibition in Los Angeles

Blum & Poe show features works by three ceramicists who experiment with ancient techniques

The great debate: why galleries could take even more money from their artists

This was the controversial suggestion of a recent survey. We asked its author and four art-world figures to comment

Can artists still afford to work in London?

Frieze talk will look at the ways artists are adapting to rising costs and redevelopment in the capital

Danh Vo and Isabella Bortolozzi part ways amid Bert Kreuk legal case

The artist has instructed a new legal team separately to his former dealer as appeal is lodged in The Hague

US dethrones China in number of art auctions

Record sales in New York boost the market, while anti-corruption crackdown hampers Asian buyers, Artprice report reveals

Million-dollar sales boost art loan industry

Report says business has doubled to $10bn in four years

Christie’s sales growth cools in the first half of 2015

Falls in private sales, Russian art and London auctions dent otherwise strong performance; Sotheby's sales also flat

Writing is definitely not on the wall for drawings

Collectors are learning to love wall drawings as a new generation of artists embraces them

Rodin sculpture stolen from Beverly Hills mansion returned after 24 years

Art worth more than $1m was looted after Swiss housekeeper sold duplicate key

Italian gallery to open London outpost in October

Tornabuoni Art will inaugurate sixth space with Lucio Fontana solo show

Old Master galleries join forces for London Art Week

Dealers from Mayfair and beyond open their doors today for the event’s third edition

Record price for Julian Opie in fundraising auction for Ikon Gallery

Sotheby's sale in aid of non-profit Birmingham institution raised £785,000

Private members club offers 'privileged access' to the art world

The Cultivist also aims to support museums around the world

Restituted works help Sotheby’s lead the way

Impressionist and Modern sales meet expectations

Surfacing on the market: Leaf out of a book (of hours)

Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Rare Books Signature Collection