Auction houses
European Union tightens anti-money-laundering rules in the art market
Dealers will be compelled to verify identity of customers buying art for €10,000 or more
Object lessons: a psychedelic cabinet from Gaetano Pesce and more
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Object lessons: censored photographs by Dorothea Lange and more
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Sotheby's backs Indian art market by launching sales in Mumbai
Announcement comes days after auction house reinstates buyer's premium in online sales
Object lessons: an Egyptian beauty by Mahmoud Saïd, and the key that unlocked the Glasgow School of Art
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Francis Bacon's $30m portrait of George Dyer shown in London for first time in 40 years
Painting of artist’s lover and muse comes to auction for the first time at Christie’s New York in May
Gender pay gap: top UK auction houses pay women between 22% and 37% less than men
Discrepancy comes under scrutiny as more than 10,000 companies submit figures to the Government Equalities Office
Object lessons: a bandaged canvas by Scarpitta, Outsider erotica and a Greenwich Village vignette by Beauford Delaney
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Object lessons: a falangcai bowl that could set a new record for Chinese porcelain
A rare painting by Zao Wou-Ki and a watercolour from the collection of a former V&A director are also coming to auction
Christian Jankowski fills Berlin auction house with 'fakes'
German artist questions authorship and market value in show of paintings by Chinese copyists based on famous works by Caravaggio, Hockney and others
Asia Week auctions reveal breadth of the market
Christie’s and Sotheby’s dominate in terms of value but smaller firms can compete in the field of Asian art, with the internet’s help
Object lessons: nature-inspired works by Axel Salto, Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Giacomo Manzù
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Surfacing on the market: Il Guercino's dog, John McEnroe's Mark Bradford and Jeffrey Archer's cartoons
Our pick of this month’s most interesting auction
Mystery Picasso collector on spending spree buys £49.8m portrait of Marie-Thérèse
Buyer bidding through advisors Gurr Johns, combined with strong Asian interest, buoys London Impressionist and Modern art sales at Christie's and Sotheby's
Auction houses must share the blame for university sell-offs
Christie's sale of 46 works from La Salle collection will diminish the museum and its academic programme
Ageing Picasso’s painting of lover and virile musketeer could make £18m at Christie's
Mousquetaire et nu assis is among highlights of London evening sale of Modern and Impressionist art in February
Dreweatts 1759 buys struggling Mallett for £100,000 from Stanley Gibbons
London and New York antiques dealership will now form new private sales division of UK auctioneer Dreweatts, based in Berkshire and Pall Mall
Sotheby’s acquires tech startup Thread Genius
The company uses image recognition software to find works of art that match users’ tastes
Paddle8 to allow cryptocurrency in online auctions
The auction house has merged with Swiss technology company The Native
Global auction sales up 25% to $11.2bn in 2017
Contemporary art leads market recovery at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, according to ArtTactic report
Author Don Thompson takes issue with 'the last Leonardo' tagline and casts 2018 market predictions
$450m Salvator Mundi sale too late to be included in new book, The Orange Balloon Dog, but would have filled several chapters, economist says
Qi Baishi paintings set new $141m record for Chinese artist
Set of 12 ink panels by traditional master sell to Chinese buyer at Poly Auction Beijing for RMB931.5m
Object lessons: our pick of highlights from upcoming design auctions in New York
Works by George Grant Elmslie, Umberto Bellotto and Jean Royère
New online auction site connects collectors with art-school graduates
AucArt offers platform upon which its pick of British art-school graduates can sell directly to buyers
Anatole Shagalov embroiled in legal cases that reveal problems of buying art with loans
Buyers using works as collateral and allegedly defaulting on payment becoming increasingly common in "frothy market"
Sotheby's Cambodian smuggling saga quietly resolved out of court
The auction house returns statue and is cleared of wrongdoing as federal government drops allegations
National Institute of Independent Expertise founded to root out fakes in Russian art market
The organisation, the brainchild of coin collector Vladimir Kazakov and The East European Auction house, aims to ensure that the provenance of a piece has been checked via an unbiased system
True scale of alleged Beltracchi forgeries revealed
Major auction houses and galleries have been caught up in the fake art scam
Insight into China's largest auction houses: Beijing Poly and China Guardian
Do they present a potent threat to the long-standing dominance of Christie’s and Sotheby’s?