Art market

Los Angeles dealer Doug Chrismas puts off prison time, visits Frieze while awaiting appeal

The dealer’s two-year prison sentence for embezzlement was pushed back pending appellate court rulings

Technologyanalysis

Semi-autonomous artists can offer society new means of working with AI

Artists have a history of giving cultural and social relevance to new technology. Recent exhibitions of artificial intelligence art and a sale at Christie's New York highlight new approaches to collective ownership and governance that are applicable to the wider community

Trump tariffs could hit Canadian art market hardest

‘A rippling impact across our sector’: Canada’s art trade is seeking to lessen its dependence on US buyers to soften the blow of 25% tariffs on imports

A sister canvas to Lisa Brice’s record-setter, and Picasso’s male gaze: our pick of the March auctions

Plus, a rare trio of paintings by Surrealist Paul Delvaux, and a watercolour of an Egyptian soirée by John Frederick Lewis

Sotheby's secures most valuable single owner collection of Old Master paintings to come to auction

Around 60 works estimated for a total of $80m to $120m from the collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders will be offered in New York this May

Art trade considers effects of Trump halting probes on Russian oligarchs

Fears of growth in illicit art trade amid US dumping kleptocracy teams

‘I like being able to walk between my spaces’: Sadie Coles on her gallery's new Savile Row location

The 6,000 sq ft space occupies a townhouse that was once home to a storied gentleman's club frequented by John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Paper, scissors, stone: Collect pushes craft to its limits

The fair, organised by the Craft Council, open this week at London's Somerset House

Art Fair Philippines opens ‘proudly local’ 12th edition in new venue

This year 48 galleries take part in Manila's premier art fair

Dealers feel justified in forging ahead with Los Angeles art week

It is still too soon to tell how the city’s art scene will be affected by the blazes in the long term

Cross-category exhibitions are gaining popularity, but do they pay off?

Transhistorical shows, often pairing Old Masters with contemporary art, are frequently critical successes but the commercial benefits are less obvious

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Sharing is caring: the New York dealers who are joining forces

Collaborating on projects and sharing spaces allows smaller galleries to keep costs down—and to learn from each other

‘Los Angeles is like a phoenix’: Frieze gives boost to city’s artists and galleries

Just weeks after the fires, a strong opening at the fair indicates a positive mood among buyers

Frieze reveals 67 exhibitors for New York fair’s 2025 edition

The world’s biggest galleries are returning for the latest edition of Frieze's boutique Manhattan fair, and seven emerging spaces will join for the first time

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Comment | Plunging sales see shine come off luxury goods at auction

'The so-called “gateway drug” effect of luxury has been overstated'

Camille Claudel bronze discovered in Paris apartment sells for €3.1m

The price is the second-highest ever paid for a work by the French sculptor

TJ Boulting gallery in London, known for its roster of women photographers, has closed after 13 years

Citing a tough market and a desire to begin a new chapter, co-founder Hannah Watson has ended the Fitzrovia gallery

Donald Trumpanalysis

As the wealthiest lurch to the right, will the commercial art world follow?

Condo London festival suggests repercussions of Donald Trump's presidential triumph are not clear-cut

Mexico City’s oldest art gallery celebrates 90 years

Galería de Arte Mexicano became a nonagenarian with an anniversary show and a mariachi party on its Zona Maco stand

Art Basel reveals a new section for fresh-to-market works

Premiere will be dedicated to art created within the past five years

Crime news

Dealer Brent Sikkema’s husband charged with hiring his killer

A lawyer for Daniel Sikkema has denied the charges brought by federal authorities

Thousands call on Christie’s to cancel AI art auction in open letter

The sale has sparked backlash from critics who say AI programmes exploit human artists

Records set for Arab artists at Sotheby’s debut Saudi Arabia auction

The “Origins” sale totalled $17.28m and achieved a sell-through rate of 67% by lot

Art Cairo—taking place in the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum—spotlights Arab art from around the world

For the first time, the fair is presenting galleries from across the Arab world and Europe

After the Los Angeles wildfires, will art become uninsurable?

The catastrophic blazes are expected to become the costliest wildfires ever in terms of insured losses, leading to concerns that it may become prohibitively expensive to insure art in parts of southern California

Wolfgang Tillmans collection to be sold at Christie's

The 15 works, on the market for the first time since they were bought by an anonymous collector, will be on show this week before being sold in March

At Mexico City’s Material and Salón Acme fairs, artists go out on a limb

The long-running satellite fairs—which champion experimental, emerging and artist-run spaces—abound with adventurous works, tactile materials and body parts

New York Old Masters sales fall just short of expectations at Christie’s and Sotheby’s amid ‘tough’ market

At this year’s winter auctions, the two big houses saw ‘a mixed bag and mixed results’

Art marketanalysis

India Art Fair opens amid a tense Delhi election

Rising Hindu nationalism and recent incidents of censorship have made exhibitors increasingly cautious to show contentious works