Art market
Beaufort Securities broker pleads guilty to fraud involving art
Global money laundering scheme allegedly attempted to use Picasso to "clean up" £6.7m for undercover FBI agent
Sotheby’s at the crossroads: new owner, new chief executive, new era
Will new management be able to grow the newly privatised auction house on a tight budget?
Lifting the lid on auction house salaries: how long would it take an intern to earn Tad Smith's $28.2m Sotheby's payout?
Executive salaries rises, while junior staff struggle to move up the ladder
'Challenging' art market hits Momart's revenue
Art logistics firm's results are down due to "Brexit related and global uncertainty", sharply reducing activity among commercial galleries and auction houses
'We felt we had to make a choice and we chose scholarship': why Galerie St. Etienne went non-profit
Jane Kallir explains why, after 80 years as a commercial enterprise, the New York gallery has become a foundation
At $6.8m, Picasso hits the high mark at Toronto sale
Portrait of Dora Maar eclipses other auction offerings at Heffel
Randomness rules New York's $42m American art sales
Small works won out at Sotheby's and Christie's as top lots went for their low estimates or were withdrawn
Cheap rents and larger spaces: Barcelona suburb tries to entice dealers out of the city
Some galleries are moving out to the industrial warehouse L’Hospitalet but others say it is too far out of the commercial centre
Marina Abramovic’s The Life to become first mixed reality work ever auctioned
Christie’s will sell the piece with a £600,000 price tag next October to coincide with artist’s Royal Academy retrospective
After years of debt and disaster, Puerto Rico’s Meca art fair offers economic boon
Opening this week in San Juan, the third edition of the event hopes to help the region on the road to recovery
Object lessons: from a tobacco bird jar to a Frida Kahlo still life
Our pick of highlights from the next fortnight's auctions and fairs
Collector and patron Kamiar Maleki appointed director of Volta and Pulse art fairs
The two events have recently come under the same ownership although there are no plans to merge them—yet
New York's autumn sales were subdued but not necessarily septic
Overall sales were down by around 30% but beyond the disappointing headline figures, women and minority artists shone
Still very much a local (af)fair: Art Düsseldorf's Asian promise is yet to come to fruition
Strong German collector base attracts European and US galleries but the the influx of international dealers and visitors is only a trickle
Banksy’s The Drinker withdrawn from Sotheby’s sale after rival artist claims ownership
Sculpture—estimated at £1m—was removed from the street by Andy Link in 2004 but later “liberated” from his East End garden
Artist who ‘kidnapped’ Banksy's The Drinker claims ownership ahead of Sotheby's sale
Andy Link says sculpture for which he demanded £5,000 in ransom was later stolen from him. Banksy’s former dealer says otherwise
Anselm Kiefer interview. Plus, New York auction 'gigaweek'
We talk to German artist Anselm Kiefer about his new works inspired by String Theory and ask expert Scott Reyburn why the art market is treading water. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
Hammer Time: Sotheby's picks up the pace during a sluggish art week with $270.7m contemporary art sale
Record prices were set for Charles White, Brice Marden, and Wayne Thiebaud, while a Clyfford Still painting prompted a prolonged bidding war
Carved from a youth centre's walls, Keith Haring mural sells at Bonhams New York for $3.86m
The Grace House Mural becomes the first and only such site-specific work by the artist to be sold at auction
Helen Molesworth to collaborate with Jack Shainman on summer programming
The curator is organising “Feedback” for the gallery’s Upstate New York satellite space, marking her first major curatorial project since leaving LA’s Moca
Uncertainty hangs over Para Site’s fundraising auction as Hong Kong protests escalate
The non-profit art space derives half its annual income from the charity gala which last year raised a record HK$7.8m
UK buyer bags Artemisia Gentileschi painting for a record €4.8m in Paris
Work depicting Roman heroine Lucretia was in a private collection for 40 years
Two Dutch museums join forces to buy rare, $3m Van Gogh painting at Sotheby's New York
Work acquired by Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Drents Museum in Assen is one of few to survive from the artist's visit to Drenthe
Hammer Time: records set but reserves remain low at Christie's post-war and contemporary art sale
Ed Ruscha's visual pun Hurting the Word Radio #2 rose to $46m, a new world record for the artist, but most lots barely reached their estimate in a slow sales season
Fine Arts Paris to expand with new investment, but will it rival the city's Biennale?
New partnership with Connaissance des Arts magazine announced as third edition of the fair opens
Hammer Time: consistency and caution are key at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern evening sale
The newly private auction house led the night's lots with its known money-maker Claude Monet, and set a world record for the Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka
'The complicated history of Boccioni sculpture is no barrier to record price at Christie's in New York'
Futurist bronze sculpture cast from another bronze in the 1970s sells for $16.2m—four times its estimate
Abuse of diplomatic privilege? How missing art has been linked to embassy officials
Recent cases involving stolen art have raised questions over the behaviour of diplomats