Art market
Dutch auctioneer to publish first catalogue raisonné of Banksy’s street works—but does it pose a conflict of interest?
Hessink’s will auction three of the British street artist’s outdoor pieces next month in Amsterdam, though none have been authenticated
New York gallery faces multi-million-dollar lawsuit over a Rothko’s mystery provenance
The lawsuit claims the Manhattan gallery Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art is refusing to divulge the seller of 'Untitled (Red, Yellow, Blue, Black and White)' (1950), which has left the provenance incomplete and the painting unsellable
Pandora Papers reveal 1,600 works of art 'secretly traded' in tax havens
The art reportedly includes "more than a dozen" works by Banksy bought by the London-based financier, Maurizio Fabris, via an offshore trust in New Zealand since 2009
Object lessons: from a 16th-century angel to a jaunty walking stick
Our pick of the highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions
Botticelli: my worries about the Man of Sorrows
The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution
Botticelli's 'stunning and puzzling' Man of Sorrows
The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution
A career-spanning, six-venue exhibition of the painter Rochelle Feinstein’s work opens in galleries across the US and Europe
The multi-venue show reflects the artist’s kaleidoscopic practice and proves there’s an organic way for mid-size galleries to put on a global exhibition
Phillips taps into demand for contemporary Ghanaian art with selling exhibition
Birds of a Feather, held in collaboration with the Ghanaian company Artemartis, will run next month at the auction house's Berkeley Square headquarters in London
Art Cologne director takes to Instagram to criticise rival Art Basel’s ‘colonialism’
Daniel Hug posted that the Swiss company "is only interested in making money and keeping Art Basel the number one fair worldwide"
Frieze cancels Los Angeles fair’s outdoor sculpture show due to shipping delays and labour shortages
Frieze Sculpture Beverly Hills, which was to take place in Beverly Gardens Park and run until May, would have included sculptures from 12 exhibiting galleries
Bacon and beasts: an in-depth look at the visceral new show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco
Premier League and Uefa consider legal action over footballer John Terry’s NFT baby ape tweets
NFTs feature the leagues’ trophies which are protected under trademark laws
Art Basel forced to postpone Hong Kong fair until May due to rising Covid cases
Originally planned for March, it will now take place less than three weeks before the Swiss fair's flagship event in Basel
Jewish icons or anti-Semitic memorabilia? The growing market for Nazi-era artefacts—and the Israeli collectors buying them
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we spoke with Eyal Ilya, owner of Pentagon Auction House in Israel, about the trend for Second World War artefacts
Late Botticelli painting sputters at Sotheby’s Old Masters auction in New York, selling for $45.4m
The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate
Edel Assanti launches new London gallery in former Fitzrovia haberdashery
Gallery co-founders Jeremy Epstein and Charlie Fellowes discuss renovating the Grade II-listed Arts and Crafts building which opens this week with a show of new work by Noémie Goudal
Lucian Freud's portrait of muse and fellow artist Janey Longman to be auctioned for first time with £15m price tag
Painting, acquired by private British collector “from the easel” in 1987, will be sold at Christie's in London in March
War of the fairs: Art Basel owner kicks Fiac out of Grand Palais in Paris
The French cultural body RMN put Fiac's October slot up for tender last year—now the Swiss firm MCH will launch a contemporary art fair, paying €10.6m for a seven-year contract
A French surgeon tried to sell an X-ray of a former patient’s bullet wound from the Bataclan attack as an NFT
The patient survived the November 2015 Islamic State attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, but never gave permission for the image of her wound to be sold
'Business is good and I need more space': Ben Brown opens pop-up gallery in London with Vik Muniz show
The Mayfair-based dealer has taken the space on Grosvenor Street until the end of May, but might extend
Louvre teams up with Sotheby’s to investigate provenance of works bought during the Second World War
The auction house will help the Parisian institution research the history of items purchased between 1933 and 1945, which "may lead to restitutions"
Giving it another go: MCH Group gets back into bed with Art SG—just a few years after the Art Basel owner pulled out of the Singapore fair
After selling its share in late 2018, the Swiss conglomerate has again taken a 15% stake in the event
San Francisco’s Fog art fair returns with rapid sales of tangible works and rising interest in the digital
The fair, which was canceled in 2021 due to Covid-19, has seen strong participation from local galleries and collectors, as well as institutions
Van Ham auction house to sell inventory of insolvent Galerie Michael Schultz
Schultz, who died last month, was arrested in 2019 on suspicion he cheated customers
Pace will launch a project space in Tribeca, with founder Arne Glimcher at the helm
“Gallery 125 Newbury is about expanding my own story...about going full circle, back to the little gallery I once had,” Glimcher said of the new space in Manhattan's booming art district
Art Basel Hong Kong hedges bets for March fair with Covid-contingency plan in May
Well over half the galleries participating in the fair are opting for satellite booths as travel restrictions continue to disrupt large-scale events
Could it be magic? Singer Robbie Williams to auction three Banksy works worth more than £10m at Sotheby’s
Former Take That star acquired the works directly from the artist’s studio in the mid-2000s
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal library for sale at Bonhams
The sale traces her intellectual development from a law student and avid reader to one of the most recognizable justices on the Supreme Court.
Long walk to nowhere: auction of items owned by Nelson Mandela cancelled due to brewing dispute in South Africa
Proceeds from the sale were meant to fund a memorial garden and museum around the freedom fighter’s burial site
Hectic June awaits: Tefaf Maastricht announces new fair dates (right after Art Basel)
The Dutch art and antiques fair was forced to postpone its March event due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions, but will now run from 25 to 30 June