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New York’s Market Gallery evolves from Chinatown apartment to Soho pop-up

The buzzy gallery, run out of founder Adam Zhu’s renovated storage shed, launched an inaugural group show on Mercer Street

AI portrait of footballer Lionel Messi's favourite goal raises $1.87m for charity

Refik Anadol's re-imagination of the Argentine star’s 2009 header sold in an online auction at Christie's New York

Art Basel Miami Beach to welcome 41 new exhibitors

A handful of galleries are not returning for the 2025 edition

Sharp drop in value of works saved for the UK this past year, official report reveals

A painting by Antoine Watteau valued at £6m was among those granted an export licence after no museum buyer was found, however items including the Second World War notebooks of Alan Turing were saved

Art Dealers Association of America cancels 2025 edition of The Art Show fair in New York

The ADAA sent an email to members this week saying the decision was made with “long-term sustainability” in mind

Ron Perelman's $410m insurance trial is testing the limits of art valuation

Long-running dispute centres over works owned by the billionaire collector that were damaged in a 2018 fire

A hundred years on, Cork Street is the beating heart of London’s art scene once more

More than a dozen galleries on the storied Mayfair thoroughfare are celebrating its history with a group exhibition

‘Creating their own ecosystem’: Arts Council gives backing to collaboration between artists in rural Gloucestershire

The Hide, an artist retreat in the Cotswolds, southwest England, with an annual sculpture showcase, is a grassroots project that is gathering momentum

‘Free art, with strings attached’: Zero Art Fair’s first edition in New York City puts a new spin on the old fair format

More than $500,000 worth of art traded hands free of charge last week with a contract that makes collecting more accessible and helps ease artists’ burden of storing old work

Christie’s celebrates the late Syrian artist Marwan with non-selling London show

The exhibition is auction house’s third dedicated to Middle Eastern art, part of a strategy to support the region

Influential New York gallery Venus Over Manhattan will close after 13 years

Founder and dealer Adam Lindemann says he will return his focus to his personal art collection

Phillips claims stake in South Asian market with London exhibition

Held in collaboration with Grosvenor Gallery, the Modernist selling show sees the auction house tap into this burgeoning region

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A sale as old as time: Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer

The skeleton, which was displayed at Frieze Masters in 2023, has been found to belong to a new species

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The art market bites back as estimates fail to score

A landscape that includes economic volatility, generational movement and new technology is changing the rules of engagement

New fair for women-led galleries to launch during London's Frieze Week

Echo Soho is founded by the gallery owner India Rose James and will host up to 12 exhibitors this October

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The online data company had a truly radical offering when it started in 1990, but how will it prosper in a changed world?

Turner painting bought last year for £500 sells for almost £2m at Sotheby's

The Old Master sale on Wednesday night totalled £14.5m, led by a record price of £2.7m for Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi

Pennsylvania college moves to sell its entire art collection amid $20m budget shortfall

Albright College has consigned more than 500 works from its collection to an online auction, though the small sum it expects to get from the sale will do little to alleviate financial pressures it faces

Tim Blum will phase out traditional gallery model, close Los Angeles and Tokyo locations

The longtime dealer says a new structure will allow for more flexibility, engagement

As Iraq's economy shows signs of recovery, a thirst for new art is emerging

A new generation of artists, collectors and educators is tapping into the country’s desire to create and experience art

Collector Ken Griffin spends $18.1m on historic US documents signed by Abraham Lincoln

Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution

New world record for Canaletto as view of Venice sells for £31.9m

The painting, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, was sold during Christie's £55m Old Master sale in London tonight, alongside works by Constable, Willem Key and Gerrit Dou

Key player in Norval Morrisseau forgery ring pleads guilty

James White, a prominent member in the vast network, pleaded guilty to forgery and trafficking

A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy

Ed Dolman, Brett Gorvy, Patti Wong and Phillip Hoffman have formed a management firm to advise top-level clients as industry enters new era

Treasure House Fair hopes to be the flagship summer event London desperately needs

The third edition of the "heir" to Masterpiece London opens tomorrow at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, with a diverse group of 72 exhibitors spanning antiquities to contemporary art

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Nudes by Tamara de Lempicka and Jenny Saville lead quiet Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale

The auction totalled £62.5m—down 25% year-on-year—but Sotheby's says it is committed to holding June sales in London despite a beleaguered post-Brexit market

Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner

The small landscape painting was consigned to a Toronto auction house a decade ago, but had not been seen since 2021