Commercial galleries

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

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India Art Fair strengthens its role as launchpad for South Asian talent

The New Delhi stalwart, which has raised the profile of many artists, increasingly reflects the growing interest in Indigenous art

Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered, Paul Cezanne in Basel—podcast

We discuss the cancellation of Gabrielle Goliath’s pavilion and the artist’s attempt have the decision overturned, pay tribute to the lauded gallerist Marian Goodman, and hear about Cezanne’s famous ‘The Card Players’

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by Alexander Morrison and David Clack

US art spaces from New York to Los Angeles close in protest of violent Ice actions

Commercial and non-profit galleries are participating in the national day of action on 30 January, which comes after federal immigration enforcement agents killed US citizens in Minneapolis and Los Angeles

Hundreds of galleries across Spain will strike next week to protest 21% tax on art

While its neighbours slash their VAT rates on art sales, Spain's remains stubbornly high, leaving its galleries in a "position of complete irrelevance"

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Natalie Portman tries to sell a corpse and film-makers traffic in art-market stereotypes in The Gallerist

The new black comedy, co-starring Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Zach Galifianakis and Charli xcx, puts its blue-chip talent up to derivative humour

Renowned gallerist Marian Goodman has died, aged 97

The dealer was known for her support of conceptually challenging artistic practices, and credited with bringing key European figures like Gerhard Richter and Marcel Broodthaers to the US

Naomi Campbell reflects on Picasso’s muses for exhibition in Swiss Alps

The supermodel has penned an essay for Nahmad Contemporary's upcoming show in Gstaad

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