Art market
'The art world had become extremely aggressive': Rachel Lehmann on a return to localism and intimacy in the art market
As Lehmann Maupin opens at London's Cromwell Place, its co-founder speaks about systemic change—and addresses recent allegations against the gallery
In pictures: lost world barely touched by industrial revolution captured in first photographs of Sussex
Album by Thomas Honywood, pioneer of photography in England, will be auctioned on 28 October
Deutsche Bank to auction Kandinsky and Schiele works from collection
Three works are to be sold at Christie’s in Paris this month; further sales to follow
A Covid success story: how the London Original Print Fair helped its 68 dealers keep selling
London’s longest-running art fair survives virus by going fully online and diversifying
Tefaf Maastricht shifts back from March to May as Covid-19 disruption extends into 2021
The 34th edition of the Dutch art fair will run from 31 May to 6 June, two days shorter than normal, while the fate of Tefaf New York Spring hangs in the balance
Stolen Mao Zedong scroll worth $300m found cut in half after being resold for $65
Hong Kong police have arrested three men in relation to a $645m heist that included calligraphy by the Communist leader and other revolutionary art and ephemera
Gerhard Richter painting becomes most expensive western work ever sold at auction in Asia
The $29.2m painting sold at Sotheby's last night in a live-streamed contemporary art sale that took place in Hong Kong as Christie's held its marquee sale in New York
The Art Newspaper Live returns! Registration now open for 'New models for new times: Rethinking the art market in a changing world'
Join industry thought leaders like Sunny Rahbar, Ayo Adeyinka and Clare McAndrew in conversation with our art market experts in a three-part series of events beginning 8 October. Presented in partnership with Cromwell Place
T-Rex takes on Twombly at Christie's $341m 20th-century evening sale
Unusual $32m Jurassic-era offering stole the high-tech livestreamed show in New York, but buyers kept bids cautious elsewhere
Superblue unveils installations by James Turrell, Es Devlin and teamLab to inaugurate its Miami space
An outgrowth of PaceX, the experiential art centre is the first in a series of planned venues that focus on the intersection of technology and art
Livestreamed auctions make gameshows of art, but where is the glamour?
Christie's and Sotheby's have rapidly adapted to 'bricks and clicks' sales, but they will need to do more to attract top-notch consignments and the experience-hungry generation
Hong Kong dealer Johnson Chang on selling his collection and rethinking art for a new era
The collector and gallerist explains why he moved his central Hong Kong gallery and is parting ways with some of his favourite works at Sotheby's this week
Analogue to digital: Photo London goes online as director slams UK government's communications with arts organisations
Covid-19 messaging is “inconsistent, contradictory, all over the place” says Michael Benson, who has had to cancel physical fair twice
Judy Chicago's Birth Project series work will benefit Planned Parenthood as reproductive healthcare comes under renewed threat
With a high estimate of $350,000, the sale of "Trinity Birth Quilt" at Sotheby's Choice Works charity auction event could reset the artist's auction record
In search of la bella vita, Mendes Wood sets up in bucolic Italian villa
Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Cristina Canale, Vojtěch Kovařík, Paulo Nazareth and Brice Guilbert at Villa Era as clients seek a more rural art experience during pandemic
Damien Hirst to open huge exhibition of more than 50 early works at Newport Street Gallery
Pickled sharks, medicine cabinets and spot paintings from the artist's own collection will go on show—although none are for sale
Paula Rego leaves Marlborough gallery for Victoria Miro
The 85-year-old artist will have a major retrospective at Tate Britain in 2021
A new online auction house wants to reduce speculation on emerging artists' markets
Founded by former Christie's vice president Shlomi Rabi, Greenhouse will also donate 5% from every sale to a scholarship fund for Black students studying art history
Art Basel to make real-life appearance as fair partners with Fine Art Asia in Hong Kong
Local galleries have been invited by Art Basel to apply for participation in the November fair
Bubbles, sheikhs and the freeport frenzy: Georgina Adam reflects on 30 years of art market reporting
Our art market editor-at-large looks back on three decades of booming sales and soaring prices, from Middle Eastern emergence to the evolution of auction houses
'I'm always amazed, in this business, by how seriously some people take themselves': Stephen Friedman on 25 years as an art dealer
The Canadian came to London as a 22-year-old, fell in love with the city and never left
Cowan’s auction house returns indigenous war god sculpture to a Zuni Pueblo
The figures, carved by tribal members every winter and left in ceremonial shrines atop a mountain, have regularly been stolen and made their into museums and private collections throughout the US and Europe
V.S. Gaitonde's £3.4m record-breaking painting leads strong South Asian sales season
Glut of collections have come to auction this month, with strong results for lesser-known Indian Modernists broadening a narrow market
Art Basel in Hong Kong and Art Central—under one roof in 2021
The two fairs will take place at the same time in the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre in March
Sign up for our third and final 'New Models for New Times' event on 22 October: Clare McAndrew in conversation with Georgina Adam
In the culminating talk of our latest event series, economist Clare McAndrew and Georgina Adam discuss the future of the art market. Presented in partnership with Cromwell Place
Sign up for our first 'New Models for New Times' event on 8 October: Is the new spirit of collaboration lip-service or game-changing?
Galleries are increasingly teaming up to stay afloat—but for how long? Featuring Pilar Corrias, Caroline Douglas, Sunny Rahbar and Neil Wenman. Presented in partnership with Cromwell Place
Sign up for our second 'New Models for New Times' event on 15 October: Breaking boundaries—local is the new global
Globalisation has shaped the art market we know today, but will the current shift to the local be a help or hindrance to emerging markets in Africa and Asia? Featuring Rachel Lehmann, Sundaram Tagore, Rakeb Sile and Ayo Adeyinka. Presented in partnership with Cromwell Place
This $80m Botticelli could be one of the most expensive portraits ever sold at auction
The painting, to be offered at Sotheby's New York in January, is estimated to sell for 100 times more than the owner paid for it in 1982
Insurers fight $107m claim for Modigliani paintings seized by Italian police
A US dealer says he is owed millions by insurance brokers for 12 works that were confiscated by authorities from the Palazzo Ducale in 2017 as suspected fakes