Commercial galleries

‘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

‘Everyone's suffering right now’: New York and Los Angeles gallery Clearing will close

Olivier Babin tells The Art Newspaper that high overhead costs and the market slowdown made the business unsalvageable

Can Hauser & Wirth's new Palo Alto space achieve what its rivals failed to?

Gagosian and Pace packed up shop in the Bay Area—now Hauser & Wirth is the latest mega-gallery to give Silicon Valley a go

‘Slowing the process down’: how a bohemian Somerset art gallery is forging its own path

Close gallery is expanding with a project space in London and exhibitions of the late Jane Harris and “the new Land Artists”

New York’s Market Gallery evolves from Chinatown apartment to Soho pop-up

The buzzy gallery, run out of founder Adam Zhu’s renovated storage shed, launched an inaugural group show on Mercer Street

A hundred years on, Cork Street is the beating heart of London’s art scene once more

More than a dozen galleries on the storied Mayfair thoroughfare are celebrating its history with a group exhibition

Influential New York gallery Venus Over Manhattan will close after 13 years

Founder and dealer Adam Lindemann says he will return his focus to his personal art collection

Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

In the UK, Hauser & Wirth, Messums, Willoughby Gerrish and other galleries have embraced the potential of unique rural sites

Tim Blum will phase out traditional gallery model, close Los Angeles and Tokyo locations

The longtime dealer says a new structure will allow for more flexibility, engagement

Innovative London drawing fair with no stands stages its second edition

Trois Crayons, a platform for drawing, is organising the selling show of works from the past 500 years

What does a so-called ‘buyer’s market’ look like at Art Basel?

Price reductions, negotiations and dealer “flexibility” are the order of the day

Koons lobster snapped up amid day two sales at Art Basel

Works by Michael Armitage, Adrian Ghenie and Frank Bowling were also among the highest-priced pieces sold

Cause for cheer at Art Basel as strong preview-day sales take many galleries by surprise

Dealers reported solid sales at the fair’s VIP preview, a good sign after a tough year in the art world

Basel's new satellite fair rides the wave of interest in contemporary African art

Africa Basel includes presentations by 18 galleries, including some non-commercial spaces

With more than 40 galleries represented, Germany is a major player at Art Basel this year

With a German-born director and the Messeplatz project by the country’s Katharina Grosse, Switzerland’s northern neighbour is well represented at the fair

In tough times for dealers, Art Basel debuts a section for new works

Exhibiting art made in the past five years, Premiere makes it easier for small to mid-sized galleries to show at the fair