Commercial galleries

Come together: how London galleries are making it work in the capital

As rising costs and a softer market force dealers to rethink their strategies, galleries across the capital are experimenting with new business models

Comment | Farewell, Los Angeles’s ‘punk’ Box gallery

The Chinatown stalwart championed overlooked artists, from Barbara T. Smith to Wally Hedrick

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Comment | As Pace slashes business, could shrinking be the next growth model?

Constant expansion and rising prices in the primary market necessary for a mega gallery are "unfixable", says chief executive Marc Glimcher

London Gallery Weekend 2026: our critics pick their top shows

With over 120 galleries across the UK capital participating in this year's London Gallery Weekend, our critics have chosen their top 20 shows to guide you through the weekend

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Blue-chip gets a boost, but edgier art remains in the doldrums

New York’s marquee auctions made record figures for established names, but precious few by young artists. Meanwhile, struggling gallery sector is impacting primary contemporary market

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Why artists' works held in storage can be seized when a gallery goes bust

Artists in the UK are poorly protected when it comes to insolvencies

Tiwani Contemporary, gallery dedicated to African art, ceases operations after 15 years

Due to "wider market uncertainties", the London- and Lagos-based dealership that helped launch the careers of Joy Labinjo and Gareth Nyandoro has closed

For young dealers, being in New York is key to surviving and thriving

Josh Kline’s recent essay revived a generations-old conversation about the city’s corrosive costs and stresses for artists, but having a foothold in Gotham remains essential for art-market success

Tribeca Gallery Night brings together more than 80 spaces

The influx to the Lower Manhattan neighbourhood includes three recent arrivals

Latin American galleries dominate at Frieze New York

Despite mounting costs and political pressures, exhibitors from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere are bringing their artists’ work to the city—with the fair committed to representing the region

Cai Guo-Qiang joins White Cube

The Chinese artist presents a new iteration of his gunpowder paintings at Tefaf New York

Gallery Weekend Berlin opens ranks as city faces identity crisis

A new section Perspectives invites seven younger galleries to take part, helping to refresh the event and combat accusations of elitism

Full extent of Stephen Friedman Gallery's £7.8m debt revealed in filings

The bankrupt gallery owes £800,000 to three prominent artists—Alexandre Diop, Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley—while other major creditors include the logistics company Crozier

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Pittsburgh’s burgeoning gallery community readies for its moment in art world spotlight

As the latest Carnegie International arrives, Pittsburgh’s long-running and newer commercial art spaces make the case for a more supportive, sustainable and slower-paced scene

‘The extremely happy part of the crowd’: Hungarian arts figures hope for change after 16 years of Orbán rule

While it is too early to say how Hungary’s new government will impact the arts, some figures in the industry express hope for increased institutional autonomy and space for criticism

Robilant and Voena gallery founders part ways to start separate ventures with their children

After 22 years in partnership dealing in Old Master, Modern and contemporary art, dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena will form independent firms with the next generation

London galleries Edel Assanti and Emalin both announce expansions

While Edel Assanti's second space will join a cluster forming in St. James's, Emalin will take over the Helmet Row location formerly occupied by Modern Art

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Overdue payments to artists, landlords and workers at a popular gallery reflect pressures squeezing the dealer sector

The New York gallery The Hole has closed its Los Angeles space after struggling to pay bills and artists

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The rise and fall of ‘buy-one, give-one’ art sales

A once-popular mechanism that allowed collectors to secure an in-demand work if they gifted a second to an institution, market shifts have made "bogos" less viable

Is most art now just too expensive for most people?

As billionaires chase blue-chip trophies, a widening wealth gap leaves most would-be collectors priced out. Perhaps it is time artists focused on selling affordable prints again

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Show me the money: UK gallery and auction house accounts reveal reality of a tough market

When the venerable Stephen Friedman gallery shut last month, it followed a number of recent closures. Financial filings of the biggest names in the art market paint a picture of collapsing profitability

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New book digs into the little-known gallery that brought Modern art to America

The publication's author on how it has taken decades of research to tell the story of the New York gallery, which exhibited artists such Picasso and Mondrian

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'Permabase' vs 'flexispace': which is better for commercial galleries?

The commitment to bricks and mortar can be expensive and inflexible for galleries

Pace Prints will open printmaking studio and gallery in Los Angeles

The New York-based publisher sees opportunity in the city’s large community of artists

End of the line for Bergamot Station, Santa Monica’s arts hub?

The city is eyeing the site, home since 1994 to more than a dozen galleries and arts nonprofits, as a possible location for state-mandated housing development

Art Basel reveals exhibitors for Swiss fair’s 2026 edition

The firm's hometown fair will feature 290 exhibitors from 43 countries and territories

Austrian pavilion artist Florentina Holzinger joins Thaddaeus Ropac

The choreographer and performance artist is best known for her radical theatre performances

Mexico City street market gallery makes art accessible

Galería Tianguis Neza offers affordable works in an approachable setting