Building relationships with all stakeholders—from dealers and collectors to museums and archaeologists—is vital

The Art Dealers Association of America 2021 survey shows many galleries intend to increase their artist roster in 2021 and slowly hire back employees

Basel edition will continue hybrid model and satellite booths introduced in Hong Kong

Dealers must decide which fairs to prioritise as Art Basel in Switzerland and Frieze in London are scheduled just weeks apart

The 27-year-old founder of Retro Africa talks about her expansion plans and how she is helping to build a contemporary art scene in Nigeria

A 120-lot online auction of Edward Bell's collection of designs, photographs and proofs starts today

In addition to the fledging fair, the tax haven on the Côte d'Azur is hosting a week of exhibitions and auction house offerings

Auction sales, according to the analysts ArtTactic, are up 230% to a total of $5.9bn so far this year at the three major auction houses, Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips

The state-backed online "museum" plans a physical exhibition later this year at the Ethihad Museum

The Ionides Scarab sold for $250,000 in April—but it may not have been the auction house’s, nor the consigner’s, right to sell the object in the US

Seven new artist records were set in tonight's auction, including for Georges de La Tour, while a second highest prices were set for female painters Angelica Kauffman and Artemisia Gentileschi

The tiny "Post It note" drawing was sold by Thomas Kaplan, owner of the Leiden collection of Rembrandts, who bought it in 2008 based on a fax

An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned

The Spanish art fair, which usually takes place in February, has braved the Madrid heat with this year’s postponed edition

Proceeds from exhibition will go towards funding the monumental Paris project

Performance Exchange will show work this weekend by artists including Helen Cammock, Abbas Zahedi and Tim Etchells in collaboration with ten commercial spaces

The Art Basel in Miami Beach chief will leave at the end of August, less than four months before the fair is due to take place in early December

Lower-value older works and those by artists who died less than 50 years ago no longer need an export licence to leave the country—but the process can still be slow

The charges against her stemmed from the fraudulent sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture to a Hong Kong collector, while a similar claim against her over a Warhol portrait remains in German court

The auction house's £17.2m offering in London tonight was only 57% sold, overshadowed by the football match

Thanks to the pandemic, we have many alternative ways to buy, sell and enjoy art, and now this genie is out of the bottle, we don’t want to put it back

Collaborative shows from 2 to 16 July features over 40 galleries, with Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi chief curating an online exhibition for those who cannot make the trip

All but one of the four auctioneers conducting the £153.6m marathon 20th- and 21st-century evening sale were women

Estimates of the potential size of the art market are way off the mark

"We are trying to build a programme that will be very female and queer oriented... that might be difficult for a Mexican audience, but it has to happen,” founder says

Asian bidders and British art boosted figures to make auction house's highest summer total since 2018

Rather than a full fledged fair, the event will bring together works from galleries and independent design studios

Our pick of the works coming up for sale in London and Los Angeles

Philosopher Reading is now the third most expensive work by the Rococo artist to sell at auction

From portraits of Napoleon and his wife reunited after nearly 200 years to Rafael Nadal's buttocks