Art market
Art Basel may be busy, but cautious sales reflect a complex market picture
Secondary market works are taking longer to place as art trade faces “a clear readjustment”
Art world moves in on the laid-back Balearic islands
With Hauser & Wirth's outpost on Menorca, new Ibiza gallery Can Garita and CAN Art Ibiza fair, the bohemian location is attracting art buyers
Gustav Klimt's last portrait has highest estimate ever put on a painting in Europe at over £65m
Lady with a Fan (1917) was last sold for $11.6m in 1994 and will be offered at Sotheby's in London on 27 June
Is Liste art fair’s under-40s rule starting to feel its age?
Amid a market that increasingly worships the young while women and those from the Global South fight for a place at the table, the Basel fair’s policy faces calls for a rethink
What sold on Art Basel's first VIP day: from a $22.5m Bourgeois spider to a huge $2.5m Richter sculpture
Despite fears of a market slowdown, clients were spending at a packed Art Basel
Resale rules have become the art world norm: what are they and are they enforceable?
Art sales contracts now often include terms stating when and how you can—or rather, how you cannot—sell a work on
Perrotin in talks to sell 60% stake to real estate investor to fuel growth
Founder Emmanuel Perrotin will retain a 40% stake in the international contemporary art gallery that he founded in 1990, but Colony IM will provide a capital injection and "corporate infrastructure"
Blockchain platforms promise resale royalties and provenance tracking for physical artworks
After NFT boom, blockchain technology is increasingly being used to help solve art industry's practical problems
Gagosian appoints new director for Switzerland
Andreas Rumbler will be tasked with uniting the mega-gallery's Swiss spaces "under a common vision"
Hauser & Wirth to open Paris gallery in October with Henry Taylor exhibition
Séverine Waelchli is announced as director of the gallery, which will be set in a four-storey neo-classical building near the Champs-Élysées
Jean-Michel Basquiat: a buyer's guide
Basquiat's art market superstardom rose to dizzying new heights in 2021 but auction sales dropped by 50% in 2022
'The prestigious places are the worst': low pay still dogs the art industry, despite optimistic salary survey
The art market salary report offers insights into salaried employment but the impact of low wages—and having children—in a time of rapid inflation are missing
Art advisor Lisa Schiff is cooperating with authorities investigating her business, her lawyer says
The high-profile art advisor is liquidating her firm and can no longer afford the “lavish lifestyle” she was accused of in two lawsuits filed against her by a former client
From a relic from Gabon to a Fauvist beach: our pick of the highlights from June's sales
Plus imposing heads by Giacometti
White Cube is latest Western gallery to open in Seoul
Meanwhile Esther Schipper will stage a show of Korean artists across in Seoul and Berlin this summer, and Thaddaeus Ropac is doubling its gallery space in the South Korean capital
Tiwani Contemporary signs up for last remaining space on London's Cork Street
The gallery, which specialises in artists from Africa and the diaspora, was established in 2011, and now moves into the Pollen Estate's development
Starfish brooch designed by Salvador Dalí sells for nearly $1m at Christie’s
The brooch once belonged to socialite Rebekah Harkness, the subject of a Taylor Swift song
Picasso portrait sells for €3.4m at Van Ham, a house record
The auction house's evening sale on 5 June was the most successful in its history
Italy could slash VAT on imported works of art
Proposal follows EU directive to align import sales tax among member states, causing alarm in France which currently has the lowest rate
'The economy is bad, the mood is worse': Gallery Weekend Beijing returns under renewed fears of censorship
This is the event's first edition since China lifted its Covid restrictions
Venice Biennale artist Sonia Boyce and Simon Lee Gallery part ways after just two years
The London-based gallery is also subject to a Companies House notice to be dissolved, though owner says tax dispute has now been resolved
Sotheby’s will pay $100m for the Whitney Museum’s Marcel Breuer building
The auction house expects to move into the Madison Avenue building in 2025, vacating its current York Avenue headquarters
Art Basel prepares for first fair under new team, while Volta Basel searches for a new director
New structure at Art Basel will see separate directors assigned to each show, while Volta Basel is without a leader after Kamiar Maleki’s departure for Photo London
Bart Drenth resigns as Tefaf's global managing director following reports of 'anti-woke' tweets
Drenth has also been criticised online by Tefaf managing director Charlotte van Leerdam for speaking about her private battle with breast cancer in the Dutch press
For just the third time this century, a Fra Angelico work heads to auction
Rediscovered panel painting comes to Christie’s evening sale in London next month with an estimate of £4m-£6m
French actor Alain Delon’s art collection heads to auction
"The Leopard" star’s collection could bring in as much as €5m at Bonhams in Paris
Palm Beach art dealer sentenced to over two years in prison for blue-chip art fraud scheme
Victims spent “tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars” on counterfeit art sold by the dealer, according to the US Department of Justice
Propelled by Marie Antoinette's poodle, mid-season Old Masters auctions in New York fetch nearly $13m
Specialists at Christie’s and Sotheby’s dismissed concerns about a decline in the Old Masters market
Paintings by Alex Colville and Emily Carr top the bill at Heffel’s big spring auctions in Toronto
The Canadian auction house also saw strong results from works by members of the Group of Seven and a soaring Warhol print
Ancient Greek gold coin from Crimea sells for a record-breaking £4.8m
The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise money for the Soviet government





























