Art market

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

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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

New York gallery migration continues as Marian Goodman and Alexander Gray plot moves to same Tribeca block

The galleries, longtime fixtures of the Midtown and Chelsea gallery districts, will open directly across Broadway from each other

Well-attended Arco fair in Madrid boosted by foreign wealth and Picasso’s 50th anniversary

Spain’s largest commercial art event saw 211 galleries gather at the IFEMA conference centre

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How online buyers of luxury collectibles reshaped auctions in an economic slump

Turnover is increasing at a time of global turmoil—and it is mostly down to growing digital sales and new tastes among the 1%

The 21 galleries making their Art Basel debut this year—and what they're bringing

This is the first edition of the Swiss fair under the leadership of new chief executive Noah Horowitz

Seeking more space, a San Francisco dealer relocates to the suburbs

Anthony Meier is joining many of the City by the Bay’s residents who have migrated out of the centre to more spacious surroundings since the start of the pandemic

Works from publishing billionaire S.I. Newhouse’s collection could bring more than $144m at Christie's

A previous group of 11 works from Newhouse's collection brought in $216.2m across two Christie's sales in 2019

Phillips reveals launch programme of Asia headquarters in Hong Kong

Works by Yayoi Kusama, Matthew Wong and Loie Hollowell will headline a preview exhibition for its inaugural auctions in March

Rubens portrait from Met trustee’s collection could fetch $30m at Sotheby’s

“Portrait of a Man as the God Mars” once broke the Old Master’s auction record and was on display at the Metropolitan Museum for several years

Is an influx of Latin American collectors turning Madrid into the art world’s next Miami?

As the Spanish capital attracts a moneyed contingent from Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, regional galleries are following suit

Art Bridges acquires $4.5m Robert Colescott painting at Bonhams auction

The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton

Growing global demand for emerging African artists helps pull the crowds to the Cape Town Art Fair

Major museum exhibitions, auctions and a new conference are all testament to the impact the fair is having on the local art ecosystem

Gold rush: collectors snap up California artists’ work at Frieze Los Angeles

Dealers open new outposts and auction house activity intensifies around the growing fair

Did Vincent van Gogh get Gordina pregnant? Christie’s is selling her portrait

Coming up for auction on 28 February for £1m-£2m, the painting has been hidden in a private collection for 120 years

Former Los Angeles train depot, transformed into an arts centre in the 1990s, bounces back with influx of new galleries

Municipal support during the pandemic and an influx of new tenants is helping to restore Santa Monica's Bergamot Station Arts Center to its former glory

Wheeling and dealing: Los Angeles galleries move into old car showrooms

Roberts Projects and Hauser & Wirth take over two of the city’s historic car showrooms, while Lisson slides into a former sex club

Auction of longtime Vogue editor André Leon Talley’s collection exceeds expectations at Christie's

The white-glove sale brought in nearly $1.4m (with fees) across 64 lots, including rare portraits and works by Andy Warhol

Peter Doig leaves international dealer Michael Werner after 23 years

British painter is choosing to work independently to ensure “transparency in all dealings”

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist says he was conned in dealer’s $1.6m art fraud scheme

Detroit-area gallery owner Wendy Halsted Beard was arrested last year on mail and wire fraud charges following an FBI investigation

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns to Marrakech after two-year hiatus

The number of galleries from Africa has more than halved since 2020, but sales were steady among the 12 new exhibitors

Indiana university under fire over plan to sell $15m Georgia O’Keeffe painting to fund dorm renovation

Museum associations and the university’s former art department chair have spoken out against the planned deaccessioning

Celebrated Chicago museum co-founder’s vast Outsider art collection heads to auction

A cut of the sale’s proceeds will benefit the Intuit museum as it plans for expansion

A 200-year-old family collection of largely unseen Théodore Géricault paintings heads to auction

The sale at Sotheby’s Paris will include seven works by the artist with Portrait of Zoé Elmore carrying the highest estimate of €1.2m

Are young collectors buying at India Art Fair?

Concerted pushes to engage with a new generation can be found at the fair as the top end of the market appears safe, if not static