Art market

Lawnews

French minister shakes up auction regulation

New law would dilute powers of the “commissaires-priseurs” system and give responsibility to non-experts

Frieze New York: enter the labyrinth

The fourth edition of the fair gives visitors more choice than ever

Surfacing on the market: Dancing in Bavaria

Ketterer Kunst, Munich, Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century, 22 May

Artistic success in America means wearing the right old school tie

Despite paying lip service to diversity, New York’s major museums, galleries and university programmes are bound tightly together in a system that favours the privileged

Art Brussels relocation sparks debate among local dealers

The move to the Tour & Taxis site next year coincides with the launch of the Independent fair in the burgeoning contemporary art hub

Ai Weiwei boosts value of art fund by 5% in 2014

Tiroche DeLeon collection focuses on works from developing countries<br>

Three quarters of new collectors buy art online for investment, study finds

But buyers are not risking large sums, with the majority of works still priced below £10,000

Andy Warhol's Mona Lisa sells for more than $4m at Art Cologne

New three-floor layout revived the German fair this year<br>

Sweet smell of success for reborn Art Cologne

German galleries, especially those from Berlin, are flocking to the revitalised fair this week<br>

Designs on Hong Kong

The Miami-born fair plans to keep pace with Art Basel

Notebook owned by the father of computer science to be auctioned

The journal that Alan Turing used to jot down his thoughts on a universal language was later turned into a dream diary by one of his student

Africa is the new China, so it must be time for a dedicated art fund

Its founders want to raise $40m and plan to support the continent’s museums

Chinese billionaire’s buying spree continues unabated

Liu Yiqian bought a Song Dynasty <i>guan</i> vase for $14.7m at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this week

Slow start for fledgling Paris fair

Paris Beaux-Arts’s first edition was handicapped by awkward timing and a vague concept

Gallery pulls out of Lima fair in protest against mayor’s ‘attacks against freedom of expression’

<h5>Event organisers end sponsorship agreement with city officials after complaints from arts community, but “damage is done” Andrea Ferrero says</h5>

Time to find Hong Kong’s artists on their home turf

Local works will be prominent at Art Basel and the new Art Central satellite fair

House move for the 30-year museums man

Former Barnes boss Gillman signs up for Christie’s

Taxarchive

Will Obama’s ‘middle-class economics’ hit inherited art?

Proposed tax reforms could make the rich feel less well-off—and less likely to spend on art

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Colombian art scene rebounds after civil war

Western dealers and curators look to the South

March 2015archive

Regulation guidelines are an ‘impossible dream’

Some think the trade was more concerned about the risk of losing sales than its reputation, observed our editor-at-large in 2015

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New York family at war in legal dispute over sale of multi-million-dollar Reinhardt

Court told that abstract work said to be of “no value” was resold for up to $10m just months later at Art Basel

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Art Deco, classic cars and tribal art drive sales in France but growth remains sluggish

Single-owner consignments and a €13.5m portrait by Modigliani help Sotheby’s emerge ahead of its rivals in a stagnating market

Comment: it’s the economy, stupid—and the art market is no longer immune to its vicissitudes

While the 2008 global financial meltdown largely failed to dent sales, in 2015 our editor-at-large warned that the falling oil price experienced at the time could prove much more serious