Art market
June auction highlights: from a delicate Degas pastel to a Kandinsky painting once owned by the Guggenheim museum
Our pick of the best objects up for sale in London and New York
What happens when artists die without making a will? Dealer fights to save remains of Fred Yates’s estate
French government sold works by the intestate artist for a pittance; now the UK is set to follow suit
Sun, sea and Esther Schipper: Berlin gallery pops up in Mallorca and Taipei this summer
This is the first time the gallery will open temporary spaces
Sotheby's launches sales in Germany—against stiff competition from local auction houses
The opulent Palais Oppenheim in Cologne will host exhibitions and sales from September. Sotheby's says move is due to growing client base in country, not Brexit
Satellite summer: Lehmann Maupin and Carpenters Workshop Gallery collaborate in Aspen, while Christie’s pays homage to the Hamptons
Galleries and auction houses continue to set up shop with niche exhibitions where their clients spend their vacations
Casa Versalles, an initiative envisioned to benefit the Mexican cultural sector, opens second edition in Mexico City
A portion of the proceeds from the selling exhibition will benefit two regional museums, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey and the Zapopan Art Museum
New French art market report finds auction sales dropped 19.5% to $25.5bn in 2020
The Conseil des Ventes Volontaires concludes that China dominates global auctions, accounting for $8.6bn of sales and 35% of the worldwide market
Anonymous peer-to-peer trading platform LiveArt Market launches with $5m of sales already—but how on earth does it work?
Buyers and sellers will never know each others identity when transacting through the online site, but its founders say such privacy encourages trust and transparency
'Two cool older boys': Lucian Freud's portrait of David Hockney expected to sell for up to £12m
The work, which took four months to paint in 2002, will be auctioned at Sotheby's this month
Sotheby's to offer Tim Berners-Lee's original code for world wide web as (you guessed it) an NFT
Berners-Lee says NFTs are the "ideal way to package the origins behind the web"
New York investigators hand over 27 smuggled art objects valued at $3.8m to Cambodia
Charges are pending against two New York-based antiquities dealers linked to the objects
As the Euros kick off, we ask…what has football got to do with art? Quite a lot, actually
The European Super League, an elite alliance betraying football’s roots, was scuppered by fans. These same power structures exist in the art world – so where’s the resistance?
Sotheby's owner Patrick Drahi buys £2.2bn majority stake in BT
The cost-cutting French telecommunications billionaire has formed Altice UK to buy a 12.1% stake in the company
'Jobs for the boys… why I'm starting to feel old amid the new art world order'
The thrusting land of NFTs and tech nomads favours the young—and has yet to shake off the old ties of nepotism
Shoe designer's $18.9m 'Double Eagle' sets new world record for a coin at auction
The unique coin from 1933, part of a collection amassed by luxury shoe designer, Stuart Weitzman, sold at Sotheby's in New York yesterday
Hauser & Wirth expands its already large footprint in Los Angeles
The gallery is opening a second space in West Hollywood, in a former car showroom
New Shenzhen DnA event this autumn aims to fill southern China's dearth of contemporary art fairs
New art and design fair in the Chinese boom town of Shenzhen launched by organisers of Art021 in Shanghai and JingArt in Beijing
If you sell art in the UK, you must register for anti-money laundering supervision by tomorrow—or risk prosecution
"Art market participants" who sell works of art worth €10,000 (£8,600) or more must register with the HMRC by 10 June
Takashi Murakami organises Outsider art sculpture show in vast New York space
Collectors can still break into market for self-taught work, says fair founder
US collectors aim to give Indigenous Australian curators 'a seat at the table' with fundraising sale of $1.5m Tommy Lowry Tjapaltjarri painting
L. John and Barbara Wilkerson are selling Two Men Dreaming at Kuluntjarranya via Melbourne gallery to fund new arts leadership education programme in the US
Slash and burn: does artistic sabotage always pay off?
A slashed Velázquez and a burnt Banksy achieved notoriety, but vandalism in the name of the NFT faces ethical hurdles
Tokyo aims to take art trade crown from Hong Kong
Can reforms to Japan’s onerous tax system allow Tokyo to replace Hong Kong as the leading art trade hub in Asia, as it was during the “bubble period” of the late 1980s?
Bonhams consignor withdraws looted Nepalese sculptures from auction
The five figures of Hindu gods once adorned a gilded temple gateway in a Unesco world heritage site
Art Basel confirms it is happening this September IRL—but with some caveats
Collectors are told they must be fully vaccinated or supply a negative Covid-19 test in line with Swiss government regulations
Galleries: London's oldest shopping mall needs you
Burlington Arcade has 12 empty units and its owners want art businesses to help fill them
‘For every Malcolm, you need a Martin’: England rugby player Maro Itoje presents exhibition on Black histories missing from UK curriculum
Sports star says he aims to ‘show a fuller picture’ of African history with London gallery show
From sneakers to Pokémon cards: here are five of the hottest collectibles
With baseball cards selling for $5.2m each and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet making $2.9m, people will collect anything if its rare and makes them nostalgic
Julie Mehretu donates major painting to Art for Justice Fund
The auction is estimated to raise $3m to $4m to support efforts to end mass incarceration