Art market
'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
1-54 cancels 2022 edition of Marrakech fair due to global surge of Omicron variant
The fair, which focuses on African contemporary art, will be replaced by a smaller event in Paris
For the first time ever, a Korean museum is selling off 'national treasures' at auction
Two bronze Buddha statues are likely to make records for cultural artefacts at auction in Korea
Banksy mural 'gifted' to East Anglia town has been sold to private buyer after being removed by the owners
The mural was one of ten works peppered across English seaside towns and could have been street artist's way of raising the area’s profile
As the direct-to-consumer model for selling art gains ground, where does it leave traditional dealers?
As peer-to-peer trading disrupts the market, bricks-and-mortar galleries must reconsider what they offer collectors
The Year Ahead: the best exhibitions to look forward to in 2022
Plus, who will be the art market’s winners and losers?
Sotheby’s reportedly selects Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley to pursue IPO at around $5bn
The auction house, which had been publicly traded for decades before being bought by Patrick Drahi for $3.7bn in 2019, could return to public trading later this year
Victoria Siddall makes 'difficult decision' to leave Frieze
Siddall, the global director of Frieze fairs, has been at the firm for 18 years. She will leave after the Los Angeles event this February but remain on the board
The socialite collectors, the $700,000 Cecily Brown painting and the first-refusal contract—lawsuit reveals secret machinations of the art world
Chinese collector Michael Xufu Huang was covertly buying works on behalf of the Monaco-based Federico Castro Debernardi for a 10% commission. But then he got stung
London Gallery Weekend announces 2022 dates and a new focus on UK regional museums
Last year's inaugural edition saw 140 galleries take part in the city-wide event
Sicilian castle from The Godfather movie is up for sale for €6m—but what about the extensive art collection it was built for?
Baron Pennisi commissioned the neo-Gothic villa, which includes a private chapel with frescoes by Giuseppe Sciuti, at the end of the 19th century
This £45m Magritte painting could double artist's previous record
The monumental L’empire des lumières, painted in 1961 for the artist's muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, has never been sold before but will now be auctioned at Sotheby's in London in March
'Cancelled' Madonna and Child found beneath Botticelli's $40m Man of Sorrows
Infrared images of the painting, which is due to be sold at Sotheby's in New York later this month, show that an earlier composition lies underneath
Bonhams buys Nordic auction house Bukowskis
The private-equity-owned auction house's acquisition of the Swedish firm is a first move in its bid to extend its global network
'Art is now accepted as a financial asset, but it is still a questionable investment'
It is now normal to consider art a bankable asset—for the very wealthy at least—but the art market is too volatile and risky for most investors
Berlin art dealer suspected of cheating clients has died
Michael Schultz was arrested in 2019 but died before he could be prosecuted
Rediscovered Bernhard Strigel painting found in a Toulouse home expected to sell for up to €800,000
The panel is thought to be the pair of Strigel's Thurifer Angel, which was bought by the Louvre Abu Dhabi in Paris in 2008
London Art Fair is the latest to postpone 2022 edition due to Omicron surge
The fair is the most recent casualty of the new Covid-19 variant, moving its opening back by three months
Sotheby’s faces class-action lawsuit alleging mistreatment and misclassification of workers
Lawyers for the auction house are trying to dismiss the complaint, which they call 'devoid of factual allegations,' but they could be facing a classic Catch-22.
Who will be the gatekeepers of digital art?
Museums, curators and art professionals endorse traditional art, but who will be the gatekeepers for the online world?