The country is stymied by international sanctions, but Iranian collectors spend millions on home-grown art

The South African gallery announced a plan to shift its US base east as it participates in its first Art Basel Miami Beach

The late artist’s captivating bird’s-eye-view paintings are featured on the gallery’s stand at Art Basel Miami Beach

The perennial design fair, now marking its 20th anniversary in Miami Beach, will launch in the Alserkal Avenue gallery district in 2027

The power threesome will launch Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries, specialising in secondary market sales

Plus, versions of famous images by Bruegel and L.S. Lowry are on sale this month

By the time London dealer Patrick Matthiesen realised the person he had handed “Mother and Child on a Hammock” over to was not who he claimed to be, it was too late

‘David and Goliath’ went to auction with an estimate of just just €2m–€4m

At the third edition of Art Mumbai, the trade debated whether the South Asian sales boom is surface level or the sign of something deeper

The contractual work was sold for €25,000 to appoint curator Mi You to the institution's board

As Maurizio Cattelan's toilet sells to its gold spot price, experts question just how secure of an investment art really is

The newly attributed, five-inch-tall sketch of a foot has an estimate of $1.5m to $2m

The decision is framed as a “strategic evolution for the gallery as it consolidates its operations in London”

The recently passed federal budget includes a pledge to provide artists royalties when their work is resold on the secondary market

Jeff Cowan had been accused of sourcing forgeries and fabricating false provenance documents

The fair returns with a stacked list of participants, both new and familiar faces

Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s senior art market editor in the Americas, Carlie Porterfield, about this week’s auctions, discusses the climate emergency with Louisa Buck and chats to the director of the Wallace Collection

The final evening auction of New York’s marquee autumn sales featured a bevvy of bidding on Surrealist works and a $62.7m Van Gogh

The blue-chip mainstay, which for the past 15 year has operated from a Foster + Partners-designed headquarters on the Bowery, will shutter at the end of December

Across the day’s four sales in Toronto, the auction house set new secondary-market records for 16 artists’ work

A court has suspended the export license of the 17th-century arithmetic device designed by Blaise Pascal, the last such example in private hands

The sale was led by a $16m Francis Bacon and included a Triceratops skeleton, a first for Phillips

Led by a Christopher Wool painting that made $19.8m, the evening included 19 lots from the Chicago collectors Gale Neeson and Stefan Edlis

Sam Glatman, the co-founder of Artsignal, which recently received a major vote of confidence in the form of investment from Christie’s Ventures, predicts that it will become the “dominant intelligence layer for the art world”

The US oddity emporium and tourist attraction franchise is “flush with excitement”, according to a statement

The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder

Members of the IFPDA "overwhelmingly voted in favour" of the shift, the first major change to the association’s bylaws in decades

The fair has also made a historic curatorial announcement

The house's total is up 42% from last year's equivalent sale, and it set new auction records for Leonor Fini and Beauford Delaney

The fair group Art Basel are among the signatories of a statement criticising a proposal to introduce a levy on “unproductive wealth”