Art market
JingArt fair returns to Beijing—with a new crop of young collectors
The fair was cancelled last year due to Covid-19 but this year was bigger than ever before, at 43 galleries
Abstract art, mid-century furniture and contemporary design all under one roof at new London gallery
LAMB opens this week in the Georgian townhouse formerly occupied by Bernard Shapero rare books
Damien Hirst secures £15m in government Covid-19 loans despite owing more than £100m to his parent company in Jersey
The companies that make Hirst’s art and manage his £183m collection are owned by the offshore parent Science
Works by women artists reach new heights in Canadian auction
Two canvases by Carr blew past their estimate to become among the highest auction prices paid for her work, while a painting by 92-year-old Rita Letendre set a record for the artist
Blast off! Painting by David Bowie sells for more than $87,000 in online auction
The painting was found in an Ontario thrift shop and purchased for just five Canadian dollars
Sotheby's doubles down on private sales with Monte-Carlo gallery
Seasonal two-storey space is newest addition to Monaco's growing commercial art scene
Records set for Cinga Samson, Avery Singer, Vija Celmins, Titus Kaphar and Julie Curtiss at Phillips's $118.2m evening sale
Auction house chose to hold its 20th century and contemporary art evening sale in New York during what is traditionally the London season due to "detonated" calendar
Chinese gold sculpture breaks German auction record at €14m—almost triple the previous high
A Chinese collector bought the 15th century gold and bronze Ming-dynasty sculpture of the god Vajrabhairava earlier today
Hoard of plundered ancient art—discovered by police in a Belgian dealer's home—is returned to Italy
The almost 800 rare archaeological artefacts are now on show at the Castello Svevo in Bari
Los Angeles gallery Regen Projects brings on two new directors Bryan Barcena and Stephanie Dudzinski
Both Bryan Barcena and Stephanie Dudzinski have worked with major museums and galleries in the city
Back to the beginning: author and art critic Frederic Tuten will have his first solo show in the Hamptons
Tuten was close friends with Roy Lichtenstein, who twenty years ago saw promise in the writer’s sketchbook.
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