Art market
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
Johnny Depp is painting other celebrities—and making a killing from the sales
The movie star is fetching millions for his portraits of Bob Marley and Heath Ledger
Is the figuration boom over? Gagosian to launch major show of abstract artists across London galleries this summer
Curator Gary Garrels has been given “carte blanche” to include artists not represented by the gallery
Otobong Nkanga—who shows at biennials from Venice to Sharjah—joins Lisson Gallery
The Nigerian-born multidisciplinary artist will have a solo show at the London gallery next year
Building bridges post-Brexit: London Gallery Weekend to pay for European curators to attend third edition
This year's event will include 13 new galleries and an expanded performance programme
Female cult leaders, clay creatures and pink rooms: highlights from this year’s Outsider Art Fair in New York
This marks the 31st iteration of the fair, which champions self-taught, folk, naïve and outsider artists
NFTs crashed last year—does Art Dubai fair show signs of a ‘Crypto Spring’?
Plus, How Video Transformed the World at MoMA and the art of modernist ceramics
Collection of San Francisco photography museum could fetch $15m at Sotheby’s
The family behind Pier 24 Photography, which will close in 2025, is sending much of its enormous collection to auction, though the Maryland-based Glenstone Museum has already snapped up 112 choice pieces
Art Dub-AI: artificial intelligence is latest buzzword at fair
The event's 16th edition has an expanded digital section—here’s what sold so far
After an attempted robbery at gunpoint and leadership changes, Tefaf Maastricht resolves to get back to business
The art and antiques fair returns to its normal March slot with increased security after a slimmed-down version last year
Five artists to look out for at London's Collect contemporary craft fair
The annual event showcases makers working in jewellery and ceramics, textiles and glass
From a rediscovered Montelupo statue to a never publicly displayed Richter painting: our pick of the highlights from March's sales
Plus, a painting by an overlooked Surrealist woman artist, and a postcard by M.F. Husain, made for a friend over tea and kebabs
Kandinsky makes £37m auction record at a procedural but solid Sotheby's London evening sale
Strong Asian bidding helped secure the success of the 58-lot two-part auction, which brought the house £147m
'From "wet painting" to NFTs: the art market is moving on faster and faster'
Cycles in the industry are getting shorter with trends now coming and going within a year
A new hotel fair for up-and-coming galleries will launch in Dallas
The inaugural Dallas Invitational Art Fair will be held in April across the street from the established Dallas Art Fair
Christie's 20th and 21st century evening sales in London represent a 32% decrease from 2022
Two-part sale spanning Impressionism to the ultra-contemporary had few headline lots—but Brexit is not to blame, auction house specialists maintain
Amid property boom and influx of Russian cash, Art Dubai grows in size and scope—again
Dealers at the fair are hopeful for good sales, despite the prospect of a global recession
Estate of Ralph Iwamoto—Japanese-American painter overlooked after early-career successes—gains gallery representation
New York gallery Hollis Taggart is preparing a solo show of Iwamoto’s Surrealist works of the 1950s
New York dealer Sean Kelly’s son takes the reins at Los Angeles outpost
Sean Kelly Gallery, a powerhouse of the New York art scene yet for a long time one of the few major players without a location in another city, has kept things in the family at its West Coast space
'Fatal for the French art market': dealers decry new EU sales tax that could wipe out Paris's booming commercial scene
The directive will make selling art in France much more expensive—and imperil its post-Brexit position as the EU's market hub