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London show of Lee Miller photographs is fundraising to save thousands of her negatives

Gallerist Lyndsey Ingram is working with the Lee Miller Archives to support the conservation of the photographer’s works and Sussex home

Lehmann Maupin takes permanent space in Mayfair’s No. 9 Cork Street

It is the first year-round tenant in the Frieze-run central London gallery hub

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Iranian galleries close amid protests and communications blackout

Uncertainty has gripped life and art in Iran as unrest continues—Trump's threats of military intervention, meanwhile, have ramped up tensions

‘Creative, provocative, controversial’: Truth Social ads for Nazi-owned art spark heated debate

The gallery behind the adverts has huge holdings of art associated with the Third Reich, and has loaned works to major museums

Mumbai Gallery Weekend looks beyond the city's historic art district

The event's 14th edition is co-led by two dealers with spaces far from the gallery hub neighbourhoods of Colaba and Fort

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Art market 2026 predictions: underwhelming rebound and another Frieze fair

Our columnist gazes into her crystal ball to spot the major trends—from London regaining its lustre to AI fatigue—that are set to dominate the trade over the coming 12 months

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In 2025, new ‘independent and nimble’ art fairs began redrawing the market map

A series of small-scale, affordable events are challenging the dominant scene

Comment | After a market shake up in 2025, it's time to create a right-sized art trade

From collaboration to consolidation, some dealers are adapting to a changing market that many agree should not return to its previous peak

Hauser & Wirth will expand gallery empire to Italian city of Palermo

The blue-chip gallery has acquired a 19th-century palazzo in need of restoration in Sicily

Southern Guild gallery to close in Los Angeles, open in New York

The South African gallery announced a plan to shift its US base east as it participates in its first Art Basel Miami Beach

Karma gallery debuts representation of Yvonne Jacquette in Miami

The late artist’s captivating bird’s-eye-view paintings are featured on the gallery’s stand at Art Basel Miami Beach

The new art conglomerate: Pace Gallery, Emmanuel Di Donna and David Schrader join forces

The power threesome will launch Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries, specialising in secondary market sales

Repeat art fraudster arrested for stealing Courbet painting

By the time London dealer Patrick Matthiesen realised the person he had handed “Mother and Child on a Hammock” over to was not who he claimed to be, it was too late

Stephen Friedman to close New York gallery, two years after opening the Tribeca space

The decision is framed as a “strategic evolution for the gallery as it consolidates its operations in London”

New York gallery Sperone Westwater to close after 50 years amid lawsuit between co-founders

The blue-chip mainstay, which for the past 15 year has operated from a Foster + Partners-designed headquarters on the Bowery, will shutter at the end of December

Art sector could collectively cut over five million tonnes of CO₂ a year, report suggests

Gallery Climate Coalition’s inaugural Stocktake Report shows the difference the art sector can make when it comes to the climate—but the next five years are crucial, says chair Frances Morris

Hauser & Wirth charged with breaching UK’s Russia sanctions

The UK gallery is being prosecuted for allegedly making available a work by George Condo to a person connected with Russia after the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Pursuing ‘a different economy’, London gallery Herald St will open new space in Bologna

At a time when mid-sized galleries are suffering from hasty expansions, Herald St Bologna reflects a more sustainable attempt at growth

'I never imagined we'd get here': Beirut gallery Marfa' Projects turns ten

As she opens an anniversary show drawing on her global gallerist network, Marfa' founder Joumana Asseily recounts a decade of major challenges and milestone achievements

After 14 years with Pace, Yoshitomo Nara's work now represented by David Zwirner

The popular Japanese artist will have his first show with David Zwirner in New York

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Comment | What the art market doesn’t allow, branded content does for Tom Sachs

"The conventional museum-gallery-collector pipeline known as ‘the Art World’ isn’t the most important thing about art," Sachs says

Comment | A spate of dealer anniversaries offers hope amid art market doomerism

Several New York galleries have hit major milestones in recent months—what lessons can those in charge impart?

‘Be really great. No alternative’: what Mary Boone has learned from a half-century in the art world

The dealer’s first curatorial project since her release from prison re-examines the art boom of the 1980s, when she cemented her place in the market

Young at art: inside Frieze London's Focus section

Our pick of the best stands in the section devoted to galleries up to 12 years old

‘Like a carefully choreographed performance’: meet the logistics professionals who bring art fairs to life

From re-assembling a baby T. rex skeleton and digging a hole in Regent’s Park to wrangling a kinetic credit-card snaffler, no challenge is too great

Altman Siegel, stalwart of San Francisco’s gallery scene for 16 years, will close

The gallery’s current exhibition by the Japanese painter Shinpei Kusanagi will be its last

Almine Rech reopens in London with downsized gallery

The new venue is around a quarter of the size of Rech’s former London gallery, which closed in August

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Peter Doig is bringing a cult classic London pub back to life—here's why it matters

The prominent artist and his partner, the gallerist Parinaz Mogadassi, will be preserving McGlynn’s in King's Cross at a time when such important community hubs are continuing to go under

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‘Is it possible to come back from this?’: Tehran’s art community on recovering from the 12-day war

Following the conflict between Iran and Israel in June, galleries in Tehran are continuing to show resilience