Auction houses
Christie's to offer paid internships to students with disabilities
Auction house has partnered with disability charity Leonard Cheshire's Change 100 programme to give work placements in-house and fund others at Tate and National Galleries of Scotland
Christie’s supports charity delivering art history lessons for students at UK state schools
Art History Link-Up chief says subject is a rare offer at state schools because of cuts and teacher shortages
Phillips names Stephen Brooks, a former Christie's financial officer, as new chief executive
The current chief, Edward Dolman, will shift in September to a new role as executive chairman of Phillips’ holding company
Sotheby’s launches first auction dedicated to women artists—but why do we still need a segregated sale in 2021?
Online sale will span the 17th to the 21st centuries featuring artists including Dorothea Tanning, Hannah Höch and Barbara Hepworth
Sotheby's to sell Robert Colescott's take on George Washington crossing the Delaware River
The painting's low estimate of $9m is ten times the artist's record at auction
Sotheby’s gets in on NFT fever with a collaboration with digital artist Pak
Auction house's head of sale Max Moore has already personally bought a work by the artist
Art Basel/UBS report: global art market shrinks by almost a quarter to $50.1bn during Covid-19 crisis
Online sales, a growing pool of billionaires and reduced overheads all helped sustain the trade when physical art fairs and auctions all but disappeared
Newly attributed Bernini drawing up for auction in France
Actéon auctioneers expect the 17th-century study of a male nude, authenticated by Ann Sutherland Harris and Louis de Bayser, to sell for €30,000 to €50,000
Christie’s to accept cryptocurrency for first time
The buyer of Beeple's NFT work will be able to pay with ETH later this month
Neoliberalism is distorting how we see art—is there no alternative?
While today’s art world has been shaped by the prism of price, our current economic model may not be inevitable
Can Paris snatch the art market crown from London?
The French capital seems resurgent, but other elements may intervene
Lockdown home decorators boost New York's Americana week auctions
Chippendale-style furniture, elephant tureens and a broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence were in demand at the sales series last week
Blue-chip artists move over, here come the red chips
Art as a blue-chip investment has had its day, as buyers chase the latest "red-chip" names
As a Brexit deal is agreed, confused and resigned UK art world ponders life after leaving the European Union
Art dealers, shippers and auctioneers are unsure about how leaving the single market will impact their business—but there is a silver lining
A crisis hits the art market once a decade. What is different this time? Christie's president Dirk Boll assesses the impact of the pandemic
As his new book is published, the auction house chief compares coronavirus fallout to previous economic disasters
European auction houses weather crisis as customers spend millions on art online
Expecting the worst, French, German and Austrian auction houses have been surprised by how well sales have held up through the pandemic
Tech-savvy Sotheby's $5bn global sales beat Christie's $4.4bn in 2020
The two rivals have made record online and private sales as pandemic overturns traditional live auction format
Abso-lot-ely fabulous: Joanna Lumley tries out her auctioneering skills at Christie’s
Star sold seven illustrations in aid of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity
Christie's sale in collaboration with cancelled La Biennale Paris fair flops
Online auction of art and antiques that would have been exhibited at Parisian fair achieves €1.5m with 21 of 91 lots sold
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
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
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
Hedge fund manager Alexander Klabin buys stake in Sotheby's financing arm
Now the chairman of Sotheby's Financial Services, Klabin was previously approached to back a competing offer to block last year's buyout of the auction house by Patrick Drahi
Christie’s to hold marquee sales in New York in early October—but will Sotheby's follow suit?
With no Frieze Art Fair, contemporary art London sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips will now take place at the end of October, when Fiac is due to open in Paris
In the first partnership of its kind, Phillips and Poly Auction set their sights on Hong Kong
Mutually beneficial collaborations between Western and Chinese auction houses are on the rise
Christie's exhibition of Black art is not about virtue signalling, curator says
Destinee Ross-Sutton has co-organised the online selling show Say It Loud which features works by 22 artists including Nelson Makamo and Yoyo Lander
Sotheby's racks up $2.5bn of sales so far this year—down 26% on 2019
Value of private sales at auction house remain around the same as last year at $575m but number of online auctions more than doubles
Can the art market be an ally in the fight for racial equality?
The industry remains subtly discriminatory and must abandon some obsolete ways if it is to truly change for the better
Christie's merges Impressionist, Modern and contemporary art departments into one as it restructures and cuts costs
New 20th and 21st Centuries department will be led by Alex Rotter and Giovanna Bertazzoni
Let the distress sales begin: cash-strapped British Airways to sell some of its art collection
Airline has called in Sotheby's to value and sell at least ten pieces from its collection, which includes works by Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig