Art market
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
Hermès wins lawsuit against maker of MetaBirkins NFTs
A jury ruled NFT artist Mason Rothschild’s line of digital handbags was subject to trademark law
Restituted Kandinsky painting lost in the Holocaust could sell for $45m
The painting, which was the subject of a decade-long provenance dispute, will go up for sale at Sotheby’s London in March
US authorities subpoena auction houses in effort to crack down on violations of Russian sanctions
Prosecutors in New York are seeking auction house sales information going back years in order to track potentially illicit transactions by sanctioned Russian collectors
Bonhams owner floats sale of auction house at $1bn
Epiris private equity group, which owns the auction house, has reportedly approached JP Morgan Chase & Co to advise on the deal
‘Post-Brexit post-Covid fightback for London’: Masterpiece founders launch new fair in place of cancelled event
The London Summer Art Fair will open in June with around half the dealers of Masterpiece
Biggest-ever India Art Fair aims to diversify pool of South Asian collectors
With the top level of the region's art market back in rude health, the Delhi fair is doubling down on fostering a new generation of buyers
Unusually large Brueghel the Younger painting—rediscovered in France—offered at Paris auction for €600,000
The work, depicting a village scene, is being sold at Hôtel Drouot
The art of the obit: Adam McEwen on his hypothetical obituaries of living celebrities who are ‘guides to life’
The Art Newspaper’s obituaries editor speaks to the New York artist about how his journalistic training informs his tributes to figures like Greta Thunberg and Dolly Parton
Surrealist collection with ‘pioneering’ interest in exiled and women artists heads to Christie’s
Paintings by Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning among the 25 works to be sold in London
Frieze Los Angeles bringing a skyscraper, a truck-based gallery and more to Santa Monica Airport
The fair’s special programmes include performances and large-scale installations around its venue, as well as contemporary art interventions at storied West Los Angeles locales
Defendants seek dismissal of copyright infringement lawsuit brought by collage artist Deborah Roberts
"There is no precedent for copyright protections on an artistic style," says a lawyer for artist Lynthia Edwards and dealer Richard Beavers
Police investigation prompts French auction house to postpone sale of Chandigarh furniture
Reports of thefts of heritage furniture items from buildings across the Indian city have risen over the past ten years
'New French restitution laws should benefit the market—and maybe force change in Britain too?'
As the Washington Principles turn 25, the complexities of restitution in a global art world have mushroomed—leaving lessons to be learned for institutions, governments and art market players
Plunging arts exports, cancelled fairs and increased regulation: how Brexit is endangering the UK art market three years on
On the anniversary of the UK's departure from the European Union, dealers and politicians warn Britain is slipping behind its competitors as a cultural leader
From a lively New Deal-era fresco study to an illuminated Rauschenberg edition: our pick of the highlights from February's sales
Plus, a Charles II-era silver-gilt vases, an avant-garde Cuban painting and a rare Tintin comic book cover
The donating game: How artists like Tracey Emin are driving philanthropy in the art world
The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?
Christie's marks 25 years of the Washington Principles on Nazi-confiscated art
Auction house kicked off its year-long restitution programme in Paris last week which aims to educate collectors and buyers
Princess Diana gown, Lebron James jersey and ornate Bronze Age disc lead Sotheby’s latest cross-category auction experiment
The auction house’s first “The One” sale in New York included a mix of ancient artefacts and modern memorabilia organised into thematic sections





























