Art market
Summer of Seoul: why the South Korean capital is a new art world hub
Plus, the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize winner: a basket made with horsehair
'The less you see, the more you project': Henni Alftan, painter of cropped and suspenseful scenes, gets her market moment at Sprüth Magers in London
The Finnish artist explains her process and her relationship with cinema
After a busy auction season, Phillips delivers good, but not ground-breaking, results at its 20th century and contemporary art sale in London
The auction house made £17.5m with a record achieved for British painter Antonia Showering
Postmasters, the first New York gallery to leave Chelsea for Tribeca, will shutter its space there to pursue pop-up model
Following a legal dispute with their landlord, the gallery’s founders are embracing a nomadic model while maintaining their focus on new media art
Inaugural Atlanta Art Week seeks to raise awareness and foster community in a city long overlooked by the mainstream art world
"This event could help build exposure for the galleries and institutions in Atlanta and make sure what we are included in the dialogue," says Atlanta Art Week founder Kendra Walker
Monster minerals, 'forgotten' women artists and a 66-million-year-old dinosaur: VIP sales from Masterpiece London
After two-year hiatus, fair returns to Chelsea with an exuberant sense of joie de vivre
Sotheby's sales in London fall short—though Francis Bacon brings in £43.4m
Bidding was strong for red-chip artists, but the air is much thinner at the top of the market
A match made in heaven: The Armory Show brings large scale sculptures to the US Open
The sculptures, which will be placed on the grounds of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the tournament, will all be by artists from underrepresented backgrounds
Banking on the Monets: Christie’s London to Paris relay auctions bring in a solid £203.9m
There were few fireworks in the three-part sale as the froth comes off the top of the market
Tefaf Maastricht fair evacuated after attempted armed robbery
Several men ambushed a jewellery stand—though the fair has now been secured
Galleries bring out their prized works for first Tefaf Maastricht since pandemic—but sales are slower than usual
Dealers say that the two-year gap between the Dutch fair's editions has helped galleries to bring higher quality works
South London galleries join forces and relocate to Fitzrovia as emerging art market matures
Castor and Indigo+Madder are jointly taking a space and will share offices and viewing rooms—though will operate separate exhibition programmes
NFT apostle Noah Davis leaves Christie’s for CryptoPunks
Davis helped usher NFTs into the mainstream as Christie’s head of digital sales, and has vowed to keep the Punks pure
British art dealer faces trial in the US for alleged part in Inigo Philbrick’s ‘ponzi-like scheme’
Robert Newland worked for Philbrick’s secondary market business Modern Collections before stints at Hauser & Wirth and Superblue
UK’s revenue and customs agency begins handing out fines to art market players
HMRC is penalising art world "participants" that have failed to register under the new anti-money laundering legislations
One of Ukraine's leading avant-garde artists to get major presentation at Tefaf Maastricht
Works by Oleksandr Bohomazov, priced up to €1.75m, will be presented by James Butterwick and Modernism galleries
Sylvie Fleury picks her five favourite works at Art Basel
UBS, the fair's lead partner, has this year dedicated its VIP lounge to the Swiss artist
'Soho Scammer' Anna Sorokin to sell NFTs
Sorokin joins the many celebrities, from Grimes to Paris Hilton, who are cashing in on the NFT trend
Rediscovered Sebastiano Ricci painting to be unveiled at Tefaf Maastricht
The work’s last public appearance was on 10 March 1838 in a Christie’s London sale. “It’s like a 300-year-old brand new painting,” says dealer Christopher Bishop.
A single owner sale of works by Gertrude Abercrombie may bring her market the attention it has long deserved
The 21 lots come from the collection of the Chicagoans Laura and Gary Maurer, the preeminent collectors of Abercrombie works
Francis Bacon’s portrait of rival and friend Lucian Freud could make more than £35m in London sale
Work from a private European collection fuels the market for the blue-chip artist
Stanley Whitney, revered painter of lyrical colour grids, goes to Gagosian
The abstract painter will have a solo show with the gallery at one of its London spaces in 2023
Uffizi gallery makes only €70,000 from Michelangelo NFT that sold for €240,000
Deal with Cinello company fuels debate about ownership of Old Master masterpieces in the metaverse age
In the Hamptons, a collaborative exhibition aims to move glass art into the market's mainstream by pairing it with blue-chip art
“Having that kind of cross-category [collaboration] between art and design helps to pull different types of buyers into the market,” says Eliza Ravelle-Chapuis, head of Sotheby’s East Hampton gallery
Collector files lawsuit to prove ownership of $7m Picasso after attempted sale goes south
The prospective buyer failed to give anything beyond the down payment, the suit alleges, while at the holding warehouse, a string of suspicious custodial transfers began
The Venice Biennale has long been known as the world's most discreet art fair—where does Ukraine fit into that?
In the wake of Russia’s invasion, some of the spending power at the exhibition is being directed towards good causes
From Dora Maar's photograph of Picasso to Chagall's depiction of wedded bliss: our pick of the highlights from June's sales
Plus, a contemporary woven Japanese basket and a colourful work on paper by Kirchner
What’s with dictators and bad art?
Imelda Marcos is just one of a series of despots with appalling taste
Could Japan rise again? New fair to launch in Tokyo in July 2023
Founded by Sandy Angus, Tim Etchells and Magnus Renfrew, the event looks to cement a growing market in Japan
Art Basel plans comeback in Switzerland: but is it all business as usual?
With a new Paris fair on the horizon, attendance figures are expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels next week at the Swiss flagship event