Commercial galleries

Artist who created Queen Elizabeth II portrait on Canadian coins sues dealer over stolen and damaged works

Susanna Blunt alleges the dealer Benjamin Lumb promised to compensate her for a stolen piece and knocked over several works in a “domino effect”

Big ticket sales at Art Basel mask a nuanced market moment

Insiders say that today’s market is “hard to describe, very hard to decipher”

Tepid sales at Liste underscore a soft market for smaller galleries

Dealers at Basel's emerging art fair voice concerns about slow start

Art Basel shrugs off ‘doom-porn’ talk with blockbuster first day of sales

VIPs prove that they came to town to buy, not just to “eat the sausage in the courtyard”

EU tax breaks could benefit dealers at Basel

New directive aimed at aligning VAT rates, due to come into force at the beginning of 2025, could have a big impact on galleries in countries including France and Germany

After the Christie’s cyberattack, who could be next?

A hack that caused huge disruption to the auction house is a wake-up call to galleries and art advisories of all sizes

Hauser & Wirth opens its Basel gallery with Hammershøi show

Mega-gallery has opened its 18th location just in time for the 2024 edition of Art Basel

Manhattan dealers feud over client contacts

The founder of Tribeca’s 1969 Gallery claims a former employee has been contacting the gallery’s clients for his own business

Young London commercial gallery swaps spaces with Newcastle non-profit for one month

Pipeline and Slugtown will show each others’ artists this summer in the hopes of promoting "cross-regional artistic collaborations" in England

Getty Research Institute acquires photography dealer Peter MacGill's archive

The extensive archive, which includes client correspondence and daily records, will be catalogued over the course of the next few years

Harmony Korine: 'If life is a movie, every blink could be an edit'

As his paintings go on show at Hauser & Wirth in London, the film-maker, writer and artist tells us about his latest genre-bending output and his biggest influences

Beyond war: photographer captures everyday Palestinian life

Adam Rouhana wants to challenge stereotypical perceptions of the war-torn country in two London shows

London Gallery Weekend 2024: the best shows for photography fans

Through sculpture, algorithms and alternative gazes, the medium is reimagined at this year's edition of the city-wide event

London Gallery Weekend 2024: our critics pick their top shows

As 130 galleries take part in this year's fourth edition of the event, Ben Luke and Louisa Buck roundup some of their exhibition highlights, from John Baldessari to Michaël Borremans, Nan Goldin to BLCKGEEZER

Galleries ousted from Shanghai’s West Bund area as property values in former industrial area boom

Big cultural venues will remain in riverside district, but group of buildings housing commercial galleries slated for demolition

Late critic Guy Brett's Latin American collection goes on show at Alison Jacques in London

A trove of works by artists such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica has been consigned to the commercial gallery

Picasso, Giacometti and Bruce Nauman, three artists who ‘redefined sculpture’, to be shown together for first time in London

Exhibition at Gagosian aims to show the “correspondence or unity of material among the three of them,” says its curator

New non-profit initiative will chronicle the legacies of influential New York galleries

The Independent art fair has partnered with Los Angeles’s Contemporary Art Library to launch the New York Gallery History Project

Six galleries turning a school in upstate New York into a collective art space

The Campus, near the town of Hudson, will open to the public this summer

‘Art-world passport office’ at 1-54 fair in New York seeks to highlight migration issues

The project, devised by the cultural platform artHARARE, enables a metaphorical journey across the international circuit

Single-artist stands punch above their weight at Frieze New York

The gallery presentation format brings sales—and more—amid broader market tightness

As Frieze New York opens, city's art market takes centre stage

The city's collectors were out in force during the fair's preview day at The Shed

How a gallery scene is quietly blossoming in New York’s Flower District

Galleries and non-profits are finding meaningful connections with collectors and artists off Manhattan’s beaten path

New faces and spaces take centre stage at Gallery Weekend Berlin’s 20th edition

Galleries such as Molitor have their debut and mega gallery Pace hosts a pop up, while others present shows in brand-new locations

Monira Al Qadiri exhibition to open Johann König’s new Munich gallery in a former power plant

König says the new space, König Bergson, is one of the largest commercial galleries for contemporary art in Germany

The Week in Art podcast | Marlborough Gallery closes, Rose B. Simpson in New York, Caravaggio’s final painting

Looking back at the history of the pioneering dealership in post-war art, plus a thought-provoking new installation in Madison Square Park and Caravaggio's The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula

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Leadership shuffles show auction houses and mega-galleries rethinking the trade

In a stubbornly stagnant market, the big players are searching for new ideas that will bring sustained growth