Results are the highest since 2015 and come in just behind Sotheby’s $7.3bn. Hong Kong expansion plan will continue despite Beijing crackdown, as auction house "separates what is political and what is business"

The firm’s sales were bolstered by a sharp increase in online bidders, who accounted for 92% of all bids this year

Proceeds from Artists Against Tyranny auction at Jane Lombard Gallery will support pro-democracy movement in junta-controlled Myanmar

The firm is buying the London-based books and works on paper specialist Forum Auctions—it previously bought Dreweatts and Bloomsbury for £1.25m in 2017

New York's "gigafortnight" sales of the Cox and Macklowe collections showed there is still a market for classics—even while a Beeple sells for $29m to a tweeting tech entrepreneur

The 20th century and contemporary art evening sale saw stiff competition for works by Shara Hughes, Joan Mitchell, Amy Sherald and Cecily Brown

Artpass ID has been created by Dutch tech entrepreneurs David Dehaeck and Nathalie Haveman, and has Rakhi Talwar, former global compliance head at Christie’s, on the team

The auction house made Banksy's world record for the pre-shredded work Love is in the Bin

The ambitious auctioneer started out in car racing before going into art and antiques, eventually retiring to his farm near Exmoor to rear a herd of beef cattle

The London-based dealer of four decades is downsizing and having a 200-lot sale of contemporary art, Modern furniture, ethnographic art and antiquities

When prices and cultural value are so easily confused, there is a case for the return of critical evaluation—in updated form

Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions

The auction house has teamed with up Gallery Climate Coalition to raise between $5m-$10m for ClientEarth

Auction sales, according to the analysts ArtTactic, are up 230% to a total of $5.9bn so far this year at the three major auction houses, Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips

An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned

Seasonal two-storey space is newest addition to Monaco's growing commercial art scene

The thrusting land of NFTs and tech nomads favours the young—and has yet to shake off the old ties of nepotism

But the show goes on at Sotheby’s and Christie’s with a mixture of in-person and remote bidding, while British dealers are getting creative in the Big Apple

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

Art History Link-Up chief says subject is a rare offer at state schools because of cuts and teacher shortages

The current chief, Edward Dolman, will shift in September to a new role as executive chairman of Phillips’ holding company

Online sale will span the 17th to the 21st centuries featuring artists including Dorothea Tanning, Hannah Höch and Barbara Hepworth

The painting's low estimate of $9m is ten times the artist's record at auction

Auction house's head of sale Max Moore has already personally bought a work by the artist

Online sales, a growing pool of billionaires and reduced overheads all helped sustain the trade when physical art fairs and auctions all but disappeared

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

The buyer of Beeple's NFT work will be able to pay with ETH later this month

While today’s art world has been shaped by the prism of price, our current economic model may not be inevitable

The French capital seems resurgent, but other elements may intervene

Chippendale-style furniture, elephant tureens and a broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence were in demand at the sales series last week