Art market
'We want to excite people': Rugby star Maro Itoje and London dealer Khalil Akar on their new African art gallery
The gallerists aim to break down the white cube model and make the art world more accessible through their new roving venture
Why are ever more artists ditching dealers?
From the emerging to the blue-chip, artists are trading gallery representation for agents or outright autonomy
An acerbic but highly readable view of the British art world
The critic and former curator Julian Spalding holds forth on his dislike of conceptual art and his love for Beryl Cook
Neglected middle class may be key to growing stagnant art market
The spotlight tends to fall on big spenders, but what of “professional class” buyers, who often feel intimidated by the art world?
Rediscovered paintings by Rembrandt and Canaletto fail to turbocharge London Old Master auctions
Evening sales at Sotheby's and Christie's drew in £19.4m and £21.3m, respectively
Cold feet? Why fewer investors are guaranteeing art at auction
According to a recent report, guarantees are down—what's happened?
Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier settle nine-year legal feud
The Russian oligarch had accused the Swiss businessman of swindling him out of €1.1bn by overcharging him on art
Philanthropy reinvented for a new generation of collectors—now with financial perks
New charitable schemes mirror shifts in attitudes to collecting and giving among younger art buyers
First-time exhibitors praise Art Basel in Miami Beach, saying the expense and effort pays dividends
Most agree that, for US galleries at least, the Florida fair is an unmissable destination
London’s Middle Eastern art sales have defied tensions
Auction purchases by Arab cultural entities overcome early uncertainties of Israel-Hamas war
How Gagosian's east London Christo show proved the power of the pop-up exhibition
Who says something eye-catching and short-term can’t also be serious?
VIPs keep market afloat at Art Basel in Miami Beach
As Art Basel in Miami Beach opened, sales were swift, though not often at sky-high prices of past years
Rio’s pioneering artist-run gallery celebrates an unexpected milestone
A Gentil Carioca’s 20th anniversary affirms it as a rare example of long-term commercial success
The art market in 2023: shaky year for heavily guaranteed single-owner sales
Middling performance of such auctions throughout 2023, with high costs and some sales coming in below their estimates, made a “sure thing” look less so
How an Oscar statuette row highlights issues around resale rights in the US
A Californian ruling blocking the resale of an Academy Award may bring clarity over transfer of ownership of living artists’ work
More than 200 works belonging to Lisa Schiff could be sold by Phillips to help repay former adviser's creditors
The auctions, which would happen across 2024 if a court approves the plan, could be followed by sales of around 900 additional works
The Gray Market: The 1973 Scull auction was a harbinger of today's market, but its meaning is still misunderstood
Fifty years later, history suggests the infamous sale from the collection of Robert and Ethel Scull is not quite the art market precedent it is remembered as
Long-unseen royal portrait by Diego Velázquez could bring $35m at auction
The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's
From a rediscovered painting by the Flemish Baroque artist Michael Sweerts to Blinky Palermo's last work: our pick of December's auctions
Plus, a small biblical scene by Rembrandt and a Hever Roman marble
Frieze Los Angeles will feature 20% fewer galleries in 2024 than previous edition
The fair's organisers are scaling back and gathering all exhibitors under one roof for their next outing at Santa Monica Airport
Emalin gallery doubles down on east London, opening second Shoreditch location
The new space will be located in an 18th-century building that is among the neighbourhood’s oldest
Caspar David Friedrich sketchbook to be sold in Berlin proposed for national heritage list
The auction house, Grisebach, says the sketchbook’s candidacy for the list will not affect plans for today’s sale
White Cube will represent Lynne Drexler's archive outside the US
The market for the American painter exploded last year, more than two decades after her death
Works by Canadian abstractionist Jean-Paul Riopelle rack up $8m at Heffel’s evening sale in Toronto
The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total
Amid a weak economy and political pressures, Artbo nurtures Colombia's nascent contemporary art market
The 19th edition of the Bogotá fair—one of Latin America's most important—has shifted location and date
Frieze to sponsor next British pavilion at Venice Biennale
This is first time an art fair has funded a national exhibition at the Biennale
Art Basel trials online gallery marketplace with a philanthropic edge
Access by Art Basel will launch at next month's Miami Beach fair
Cheim & Read, mainstay of the New York gallery scene, will close permanently next month
The gallery’s co-founder, John Cheim, recently unloaded treasures from his personal collection at auction
British art market yet to reap ‘Brexit dividends’, new report suggests
Clare McAndrew's British Art Market in 2023 survey shows a growing gulf between UK and US art markets, prompting key players to lobby government
Dealer and furniture expert to go on trial as part of longstanding investigation into forged French furniture
The trial is expected to offer unprecedented insights into the inner workings of the antique furniture market that once took pride of place at Paris's Biennale des Antiquaires





























