Art market
Hauser & Wirth couple buy up Groucho private club in London—complete with 150-strong art collection
Works by Peter Blake, Gavin Turk and Tracey Emin are dotted around the Dean Street premises
Chasing a booming East Asian art market, shipping company Crozier expands in Hong Kong
Organisation's chief still sees Hong Kong as "primary gateway to region" despite Beijing crackdown causing jitters for businesses
Influencers and antiques? How a new generation is transforming the market
In a post-Covid world, tech-savvy collectors continue to disrupt the old model of in-person trading
Expo Chicago picks Americas Society and Macba curators to organise fair's special sections in 2023
Museu d'art contemporani de Barcelona curator Claudia Segura and Americas Society director Aimé Iglesias Lukin will oversee the fair’s large-scale art and emerging gallery programmes, respectively
First edition of Design Miami Paris fair postponed after police cite ‘security problems’ with venue
The event was to be held at the Place de la Concorde in October to coincide with the inaugural Paris+ par Art Basel
Leading Indian gallery Experimenter expands from Kolkata to Mumbai
It will move into a building currently occupied by Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in the country's largest city and financial capital
Gallery Weekend Beijing provides welcome relief after very quiet six months for Chinese dealers
Rolling lockdowns and transport difficulties have stymied the art scene
Billionaire battle rages on as Geneva court overturns dismissal of Dmitry Rybolovev's fraud case against art dealer Yves Bouvier
Rybolovlev is accusing Bouvier of having swindled €1.1bn from him through the €2bn sales of 38 works of art from 2003 to 2014
Paula Rego’s influence will live on—here's why her market will too
Long undervalued, especially at auction, her works are now appealing to a wider base of collectors and prices are set to rise accordingly
A replica of a replica: Sturtevant's version of Claes Oldenburg's The Store to be restaged in London
Thaddaeus Ropac gallery will recreate a 1967 work by the American artist Sturtevant, which near-copied Oldenburg's 1961 installation as a comment on authorship and originality
'Recession is likely—and the art market is not immune'
It might take a little longer in our world for the bad news to feed through, but feed through it will
Crypto crash or burn? Damien Hirst to set his paintings on fire for NFT project
Artist will destroy thousands of his works at Newport Street Gallery in London this autumn
China’s zero Covid restrictions have had significant impact on country’s commercial art scene
New report reveals that 77% of galleries had lower sales this year compared to last, while several art fairs were cancelled
The Armory Show to examine conflict and debate around public monuments
The 2022 edition of the New York fair will feature a section of large-scale installations organised by the Tate curator Tobias Ostrander
Frieze announces galleries for London fair in October and doubles down on city's 'global reach' post-Brexit
Amid rising interest rates and continued supply chain havoc, the UK's premier contemporary art fair resolves to celebrate the capital's position as an "international centre"
Chelsea Calling: this summer’s group shows remind the reign of gallery district
Blue chip galleries in New York’s original art district have put on their best shows with ambitious checklists and pairings
Sri Lankan activist art by Chandraguptha Thenuwara to be shown at Frieze London
Works on paper reflect deepening political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka
Why are NFT platforms opening up physical gallery spaces?
SuperRare, Superchief Gallery NFT, Bright Moments and Quantum Art have all opened galleries in the US over the past year
Art and mental health charity celebrates £1m funding partnership and new show at London's Hauser & Wirth
Hospital Rooms has worked with award-winning artists to commission works across UK hospitals
Boutique fair Artmonte-carlo promises strong sales and deep-pocketed local buyers as French Riviera's art scene heats up
The fair's sixth edition invited just 37 galleries to take part—but wealthy patrons and residents of the Mediterranean tax haven say they prefer the intimate size
Indigenous Canadian artists pressure government to curtail sales of counterfeit First Nations art
Imports of artworks manufactured abroad to replicate Indigenous Canadian styles are not currently regulated
Perrotin and Pace galleries announce Seoul expansions—while other Western dealers test Korean waters via group show
With the inaugural Frieze Seoul opening in September, more international gallerists are staking a claim in the city's rapidly expanding scene
'This market will not turn quickly': Christie's, confident amid fears of a coming recession, reports $4.1bn in sales in the first half of 2022
The auction house’s quick reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic has positioned it well to survive any approaching economic headwinds, executives claim
A new documentary tracks the ups and downs of ‘making it’ in the contemporary art world
Kelcey Edwards’s documentary delves into some of the open secrets underpinning today’s art world
Black Napoleon and smooching sailors: Amy Sherald tells us about her first European solo show opening in London
The exhibition at Hauser & Wirth will coincide with Frieze London and present new works subverting the Western art historical canon
Auction houses say the art market is booming. But what lurks beneath these shiny numbers?
Despite what hyperbolic marketing might suggest, sales of 20th-century titans are failing to reach expected price points
Digging deep for Old Master treasures: mixed results at London sales as dearth of 'good material' continues
Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals
Korea International Art Fair reveals 164 galleries for its 21st edition
Korea’s longest-running art fair will feature more than 100 Korean galleries and run concurrently with its satellite fair, Kiaf Plus, and the first edition of Frieze Seoul
The year of Australia's corporate art sell off? Major pension fund latest to liquidate collection
The Construction and Building Unions Superannuation fund hopes to net $6.3m from auctioning its works with Deutscher and Hackett’s in Melbourne
From a new recording of the song that made Bob Dylan famous to a gay rights protest artefact: our pick of the highlights from this summer's sales
Plus, a “crypto-jukebox”, a striking piece of Modern British silver and a sea battle by a Dutch Old Master