Art market
Asia Week New York bounces back from Covid-19 restrictions with $131m in sales
A print of the "Great Wave" by Hokusai sold for a record-breaking $2.8m at Christie’s during the series of exhibitions and auctions
After fallout, Sotheby’s seeks to fix ‘glitch’ in its NFT sale by including more women
Auction house faced online backlash over male-dominated digital art sale
Nan Goldin joins Gagosian, leaving Marian Goodman gallery after five years
With newfound backing from the world's biggest gallery, is the activist-photographer's art market poised for take off?
Renoir portrait once owned by art dealer Ambroise Vollard could fetch €650,000 at Paris auction
Painting was sold by Vollard in 1930 and has never been publicly exhibited before
Galleries continue to bank on Asia as Peres Projects expands in Seoul and Hauser & Wirth relocates to new street-level space in Hong Kong
Meanwhile, Eva Presenhuber is now teaming up with a South Korean design studio and Tang Contemporary Art will add a space in Singapore to its roster
Hong Kong is back with bang: Art Basel returns and M+ museum makes waves
Plus, art censorship online and Brenda L. Croft's photos of fellow First Nations Australian women
Phillips unveils new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong, promising investment in local scene after 'difficult' few years
The opening of the 52,000 sq ft Kowloon space kicked off the city's first international art week since Covid restrictions lifted
Hong Kong heiress sues gallery over alleged £500,000 Banksy fraud
Karen Lo says the dealer Pearl Lam never followed through with her purchase of a well-known painting by the secretive British artist
Art Basel Hong Kong fully reopens after four years—and Asian buyers are out in force
The opening day saw a steady stream of sales to private collectors and institutions in the region
Bracelet worn by Marlene Dietrich in Alfred Hitchcock film could bring $4.5m at Christie’s
The diamond and ruby bracelet is part of an auction of the jewellery collection of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter
Master Drawings New York, founded by two London dealers in 2006, acquired by New York gallery
Manhattan-based Christopher Bishop Fine Art has purchased the fair
Inside the 'biggest art fraud in history': what the alleged mass forgery tells us about the market for First Nations art in Canada
Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess
Late Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston trustee’s collection could fetch more than $270m at Christie’s
Two sales featuring work from Gerald Fineberg’s collection will take place in May in New York
Works worth more than $20m accounted for nearly half of auction sales in 2022, according to new Sotheby's report
Report also highlights how Asian, Millennial and Gen X buyers are changing the demographic of the market
'Museum-quality' works by Bill Woodrow pulled from Saatchi & Saatchi collection sale after last-minute intervention
Eight sculptures were being offered by auction house Roseberys at prices so low they would have been "destructive to his career", according to the artist Richard Deacon
Miami art dealer sentenced to more than four years in prison for smuggling ivory sculptures
Eduardo Ulises Martinez was convicted of illegally transporting ivory and obstruction of justice
Collector and dealer Lio Malca joins New York gallery migration from Chelsea to Tribeca
Malca’s new 5,000 sq. ft space on White Street will open in May
Frieze New York lines up mega-galleries and some new faces for fair's 2023 edition
The fair will welcome more than 60 galleries as the event remains on a smaller scale than before the Covid-19 pandemic
What lies behind the demise of British art and antiques fairs?
The problematic trend could reflect a wider international problem for the art market
Are young collectors buying Old Masters? Dealers at Tefaf Maastricht bank on changing tastes
The sector could benefit from cross-over buyers influenced by fashion designers and institutions looking to diversify collections
How one year of Russian sanctions have shaped the art market
Businesses urged to tighten approach to client background checks as US subpoenas auction houses for sales records
Venus Williams and Adam Pendleton team up for charity auction to fund restoration of Nina Simone’s childhood home
The legendary civil rights activist and musician was born in the North Carolina house and spent the first years of here life there
Old Masters in Maastricht: What does Tefaf tell us about the market for historic art?
Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist
'You can buy two sailboats for one Shang Dynasty gong': Chinese art dealer James Lally on selling his gallery’s inventory at auction
The retired gallerist looks back on 50 years of his career ahead of a Christie's New York sale this month
Half of Van Gogh’s most expensive paintings have sold to Chinese collectors
The burgeoning growth of the East Asian market pushes up prices for the artist’s work
Seven more paintings from Paul Allen’s collection could fetch $30m at Christie’s
Last year, the late Microsoft co-founder’s art collection brought in a record $1.6bn over two auctions
Does the West really care about human rights and art washing?
As the art world continues to do business in authoritarian regions, some question its claim to being a force for universal good
Happy International Women's Day! Female artists still dwarfed by male counterparts at auction—but ‘ultra-contemporary’ sales offer hope
New report by Artsy finds that work by women accounted for less than 10% of auction sales in 2022
The rise of art-backed loans is spectacular—here's how they work
Sotheby's is reportedly offering new securities service as art and finance worlds increasingly converge
Magritte painting thought to be an homage to Vermeer heads to auction in Paris
Surrealist work is estimated to make €2m at Sotheby's