Art market

Frida Kahlo dreamscape estimated between $40m to $60m could break artist's auction record

El Sueňo is from a major Surrealist collection amassed by Nesuhi and Selma Ertegun, being sold at Sotheby's New York this November

Japanese museum’s collection of Western art could bring $60m at auction

The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art will sell off its treasures this autumn at Christie’s in New York

Picasso or Bitcoin? How art’s status is changing among the super-rich

The art market is failing to attract the highest spenders, whose sights are set on other investments as the trade plateaus

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Despite new autumn slot, Tokyo Gendai remains a largely local affair

Galleries reported satisfactory sales amid a global slump, noting that the relatively low prices and high volume of Japan's market are serving its domestic scene well

Inaugural Brussels Art Week stakes a strong claim for the city's scene

Organised by new non-profit RendezVous, the event brought together Brussels's wealth of commercial galleries, institutions and artist-run spaces

‘We craved external validation, but what's important has shifted’: Dubai gallery The Third Line celebrates 20 years

Founder Sunny Rahbar reflects on the rise of the Gulf scene and her gallery's journey, from 9/11 to the financial crash of 2008

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It’s back to business for the art market—but can the trade keep ticking over till Christmas?

As dealers end their summer breaks, closures, cancellations and some worrying economic indicators point to tough times ahead

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Leaner, nimbler and more discreet: why some art advisory firms are growing in a downturn

As other parts of the business scale back, advisories continue to launch and expand

Sotheby’s secures $120m Pritzker and $400m Lauder collections, with works by Matisse, Munch and Van Gogh

Specialists estimate the collections could collectively bring in around $520m during the upcoming auctions in New York this autumn

After 50 years, LA Louver is closing its gallery in Venice, California

The gallery will donate its vast archive to the Huntington as it shifts to a new business model

Rarely seen Walter Sickert painting to go on sale in London

The British artist’s oil, depicting a bored couple, is being offered by the gallery Piano Nobile as part of a selling exhibition

Francis Bacon painting, one half of a canvas divided by the artist, expected to sell for £9m at Sotheby's

The now separate paintings, ‘Portrait of a Dwarf’ and ‘Two Figures’, were once part of the same work

Ukraine-Russia war remains front and centre for Viennacontemporary fair exhibitors

The fair continues to act as a bridge between eastern and western Europe

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan's collection of Indian and Persian paintings to sell at Christie's for more than £8m

The collection of 95 works, built with his wife Princess Catherine, will be auctioned in London on 28 October

Christie’s expects Elaine Wynn’s collection to bring $75m, while her record-breaking Bacon triptych goes to Lacma

Wynn, who died in April, owned trophy works by Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell and others

Christie’s shuts down pioneering digital art department

With the NFT market still a fraction of its recent heights, the auction house has reportedly let go of key staffers

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Despite external chaos, Frieze Seoul soldiers on

The fair's fourth edition sees its increasingly regional collecting base more subdued—but decent top-end sales and strong institutional presence maintain its position as one of Asia's leading market moments

Independent 20th Century fair will move to Sotheby’s Breuer Building in 2026

The move will allow the fair to grow significantly, from around 30 exhibitors to around 50

New York's Art on Paper fair draws a fuzzy line between its titular medium and everything else

The 11th edition of the paper-focused fair explores the innumerable ways that the material can be used as a vehicle of expression—with some paintings and ceramics for good measure

Clément Delépine leaving Art Basel Paris to lead Lafayette Anticipations

After overseeing four editions of Art Basel’s French fair, Delépine will take the helm at the Fondation Galeries Lafayette’s art and culture space

Dealers get creative pairing artists at Duet—just don’t call it an art fair

The new project, featuring 11 galleries and a group show, frames itself as an alternative to more conventional Armory Week fairs

The Armory Show jumpstarts New York art market after summer of hand-wringing

The fair is unfolding amid market jitters and following a string of gallery closures, but dealers were upbeat and reporting solid sales during the VIP preview

Despite red tape from US sanctions, Tehran-based gallery champions Iranian art at The Armory Show

Owner of O Gallery says her participation affirms ‘importance of cultural dialogue at a time when exchange across borders is increasingly fraught’

Artists who defy categorisation take pride of place at Independent 20th Century

The fair, which spotlights art from the previous century, is showing overlooked women Modernists as well as boundary-pushing painters and sculptors

‘Unicorn’ collection, expected to fetch $180m, comes to Christie's

The Weis family's private trove of masterworks has emerged at last

Furniture gets a performative boost at Collectible design fair

At the fair’s second New York iteration, bespoke functional art meets food, music, drag and even body piercing

Comment | Why New York can be a risky place for dealers and museums to hold art

Could the Manhattan district attorney's seizures be putting people off sending artworks to the city?

Art fairsanalysis

How—and why—do art fairs work with non-profit organisations?

Teasing apart the alliances between for-profit trade events and charitable organisations

The new U-Haul Art Fair is pulling up in Chelsea

Exhibitors at the new fair on wheels will work out of trucks rather than from stands

New York's digital art gallery reboot

The opening of the NFT platform SuperRare’s physical space and Heft Gallery, both on the Lower East Side, signal growing collector interest and institutional acceptance