Art market
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Artists love it as a medium, but are collectors and dealers too busy for time-based work at an art fair?
Auction guarantees are dividing the art trade
Insurance for sellers or market manipulation?
The Art Show fair report: Setting a sophisticated tone
Collectors queue to view classic modern and contemporary works
New York's lack of a standout art fair
New York is a city with the space and the traction to make introducing a fair of Art Basel's scale a lucrative prospect. So why are locals dragging their feet?
Knitted lights and boiled leather chairs: a look at current trends in design, as seen at art fairs
Collectors in search of unusual materials at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile design fair should expect the unexpected
TEFAF Maastricht reaches beyond its European core
Chairman Ben Janssens has spent the year charming galleries and collectors in other continents
Scholars divided over Leonardo attribution
Simon C. Dickinson Ltd is now the owner of Madonna and Child with St Anne and a Lamb, having reimbursed Nasser Kazeminy for the $7m he paid. If authentic, the gallery stands to make a profit, but if not then its value as an anonymous drawing is modest. So where did the drawing come from—and is it the real thing?
Swann advocates African-American art in new sale
Auction house combines blue-chip works and those priced to entice new collectors
Buyers and dealers unswervingly snapping up art at Miami fairs, despite economic slump
How young dealers are on the up
Top galleries commit to Art HK fair
Dealers keen to work with eager Chinese collectors
Leonardo case exposes back-room deals
A court ruling over commission on the sale of a drawing has revealed a complex web of payments
The market bounces back from the recession as big-ticket works sell for big-bucks
But despite strong headline sales, missed estimates and cautious collectors signalled that 2010 would not be a return to the wild days
Major collectors to host (e)merge fair in DC
Washington DC fair will focus on youth and young artists
Art Basel Miami Beach banks on the tried and tested
Established artists first to sell as collectors take their time over emerging talents
Rumoured expansion west for Cheim & Read
While opening remains unconfirmed, it would be among a spate of other galleries branching out
Haunch teams up with NY financier Asher Edelman
But gallery says there’s no formal deal with Asher Edelman over artist
Steady nerve required by dealers as buyers take their time—but lower price points encouraged sales at Art Basel Miami Beach
Who needs celebrities? It’s the serious collectors that count
2011 Sharjah Biennial artists announced
New organiser discloses record 119 artists from 36 countries will be exhibited
73 Warhols flood the market: A quick look at what this means for the High Priest of Pop
A broad range of works reap favourable prices
Pulse gets collectors’ hearts as they snap up new works
Sales very close to pre-recession totals
Collectors pay top prices for the highest quality work of Islamic classics
Christie’s totals higher, but Sotheby’s had the standout individual piece
Post-war and contemporary auction report: cautious but confident
Some good prices were made, but top quality works were relatively thin on the ground
Dealers are collectors, too, whether this is a problem comes down to a question of integrity
Some things are for sale. And some aren’t
Joe Simon-Whelan's Warhol authenticity claim over
Simon-Whelan says he lacks the financial resources to pursue his case
Key lots: Contemporary and post-war
Sarah Morris, Mark Bradford, and Andy Warhol are this season's London highlights
Frieze London fair report: Bling is out, but big is back (though the prices are sober)
The fair drew the major collectors, its quota of celebrities and plenty of students. But the feel was calm, not frenzied
Visitors to Art Gwangju regarded the fair as 'a kind of museum exhibition'
More officials than collectors?
Warhol Brillo boxes downgraded to “copies”
Authentication board says famous museum director “falsified” their history
New books on art investment aim to capitalise on the emerging field
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