Commercial galleries

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

Colnaghi, world's oldest gallery, to open Saudi Arabian outpost

The London-based dealership specialising in Old Masters and antiquities is launching in Riyadh—but is there enough demand?

Pace to shut Hong Kong gallery

The mega gallery will be the latest high-profile departure from the H Queen's building as the city's art market struggles with economic slowdown

Almine Rech shuts London gallery but will open another there 'soon'

The prominent art dealership has closed its London operations in “a technical step to restructure a lease that no longer aligned with its plans”

Knoedler gallery faking scandal is a gift that keeps on giving

Writer Barry Avrich has followed up his 2020 documentary about the $80m art fraud case with a new book on the saga

New York’s Tilton Gallery staging final exhibition after more than four decades in business

The closure comes eight years after the death of the gallery's influential founder Jack Tilton

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Thaddaeus Ropac is betting on Milan—will it pay off?

The dealer has opened a gallery in the northern Italian city, which is welcoming an influx of new money and favourable tax structures for art

UK money laundering crackdown continues, as art dealer faces a fine of more than £150,000

Latest penalties from UK’s customs and revenue office reveal a ramping up of regulatory enforcement

Picasso or Bitcoin? How art’s status is changing among the super-rich

The art market is failing to attract the highest spenders, whose sights are set on other investments as the trade plateaus

‘We craved external validation, but what's important has shifted’: Dubai gallery The Third Line celebrates 20 years

Founder Sunny Rahbar reflects on the rise of the Gulf scene and her gallery's journey, from 9/11 to the financial crash of 2008

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It’s back to business for the art market—but can the trade keep ticking over till Christmas?

As dealers end their summer breaks, closures, cancellations and some worrying economic indicators point to tough times ahead

After 50 years, LA Louver is closing its gallery in Venice, California

The gallery will donate its vast archive to the Huntington as it shifts to a new business model

Dealers get creative pairing artists at Duet—just don’t call it an art fair

The new project, featuring 11 galleries and a group show, frames itself as an alternative to more conventional Armory Week fairs

Artists who defy categorisation take pride of place at Independent 20th Century

The fair, which spotlights art from the previous century, is showing overlooked women Modernists as well as boundary-pushing painters and sculptors

Comment | Why New York can be a risky place for dealers and museums to hold art

Could the Manhattan district attorney's seizures be putting people off sending artworks to the city?

New York's digital art gallery reboot

The opening of the NFT platform SuperRare’s physical space and Heft Gallery, both on the Lower East Side, signal growing collector interest and institutional acceptance

Pioneering Brazilian artist Lygia Pape's estate is now represented by Mendes Wood DM

The Brazilian gallery will hold a career-spanning exhibition of Pape’s work in São Paulo in April 2026

A former director at Lower Manhattan galleries goes it alone Uptown

After stints at Pace, Lehmann Maupin and elsewhere, Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle is prioritising her nomadic gallery Gladwell Projects, which will open a pop-up in Harlem this autumn

New Orleans artists mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina

Ferrara Showman Gallery brings together works from ten artists reflecting on two decades since the deadly storm

Jeff Koons returns to Gagosian four years after departing for Pace

The world's most expensive living artist is once again represented by the global mega-gallery

‘Sometimes you just have to go for it’: as others close, Ben Hunter expands his London gallery

The art dealer, who has taken over an entire townhouse in coveted St James’s, talks overheads, growth and balancing the primary and secondary markets

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will close Los Angeles location

The New York gallery's West Coast outpost will cease operations in September after seven years

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Buyer’s choice: how collectors factor into the art world’s quest for environmental sustainability

With the agency to make decisions on emissions-heavy activities, collectors play a crucial role in the industry