Commercial galleries
What sold on Art Basel's first VIP day: from a $22.5m Bourgeois spider to a huge $2.5m Richter sculpture
Despite fears of a market slowdown, clients were spending at a packed Art Basel
Resale rules have become the art world norm: what are they and are they enforceable?
Art sales contracts now often include terms stating when and how you can—or rather, how you cannot—sell a work on
Perrotin in talks to sell 60% stake to real estate investor to fuel growth
Founder Emmanuel Perrotin will retain a 40% stake in the international contemporary art gallery that he founded in 1990, but Colony IM will provide a capital injection and "corporate infrastructure"
Gagosian appoints new director for Switzerland
Andreas Rumbler will be tasked with uniting the mega-gallery's Swiss spaces "under a common vision"
Hauser & Wirth to open Paris gallery in October with Henry Taylor exhibition
Séverine Waelchli is announced as director of the gallery, which will be set in a four-storey neo-classical building near the Champs-Élysées
White Cube is latest Western gallery to open in Seoul
Meanwhile Esther Schipper will stage a show of Korean artists across in Seoul and Berlin this summer, and Thaddaeus Ropac is doubling its gallery space in the South Korean capital
Tiwani Contemporary signs up for last remaining space on London's Cork Street
The gallery, which specialises in artists from Africa and the diaspora, was established in 2011, and now moves into the Pollen Estate's development
Italy could slash VAT on imported works of art
Proposal follows EU directive to align import sales tax among member states, causing alarm in France which currently has the lowest rate
'The economy is bad, the mood is worse': Gallery Weekend Beijing returns under renewed fears of censorship
This is the event's first edition since China lifted its Covid restrictions
Venice Biennale artist Sonia Boyce and Simon Lee Gallery part ways after just two years
The London-based gallery is also subject to a Companies House notice to be dissolved, though owner says tax dispute has now been resolved
Reverend Joyce McDonald: 'From the shooting gallery to the art gallery'
She spent decades hooked on heroin until a religious experience changed her life. Now, the reverend of a Brooklyn church has been discovered by the art world
Can London's commercial galleries help save regional museums?
The Art Fund and London Gallery Weekend have launched a focus group with the aim of helping public institutions acquire works and organise exhibitions
London Gallery Weekend: our critics pick their top shows
From post-human smart cities to the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Ben Luke and Louisa Buck choose their must-see exhibitions from the third edition of the city-wide event
'New York is so influential in our industry': the Gallery Climate Coalition sees its newest chapter as essential
The international sustainability group now has six branches working toward a greener art industry
Endless appetite: Hauser & Wirth founders to open first New York restaurant alongside third gallery in the city
Launching next year, the Soho eatery is the latest venture from the hospitality company Artfarm
Ortuzar Projects will triple its gallery space in Tribeca
The new 10,000 sq. ft space is next-door to the gallery’s original location in New York's fastest-growing neighbourhood for art
Peres Projects opens second gallery in Seoul
The four-storey space is located near historic city sites such as the National Palace
Nigerian artists stand out at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York
Twenty-six stands span the four floors at the fair’s new Harlem space
Has New York’s hot art market finally cooled?
Dealers at Frieze remain optimistic while noting a shift in collector behaviour
New York's Spring art bonanza: the shows, the sales, the fairs
Plus, the Richard Prince copyright case and Sarah Sze in London
Dreams and nightmares abound at New York's Independent art fair
The latest spring edition of the fair places an emphasis on phantasmagorical figuration
Stephen Friedman opening New York location in Tribeca
It’s the latest in a long line of galleries to open in the upscale New York neighbourhood
Gagosian to close its vast Britannia Street gallery in London after two decades
The gallery is instead launching a new public platform for large-scale sculpture in October
'Not a matter of competition, but natural progression': Pilar Corrias to open new London gallery in Mayfair
The 500 sq m space will replace the Fitzrovia gallery and open this October with an exhibition of work by Christina Quarles
Future Fair pays it forward with fund to support emerging galleries
The upstart fair proffers on-trend paintings for collectors and mutual aid for dealers
Press officers move over: Gagosian employs ChatGPT to announce new exhibition
The artificial intelligence chat bot was credited with creating the text for Alex Israel's show in Rome
What are you worth? New report reveals art world salaries, from £22,500 for gallery assistants to over £250,000 for top sales directors
The report, published by recruitment firm Sophie Macpherson, used base salary data from 2022
Art in the Windy City: Expo Chicago fair and beyond
Plus, how Northern Ireland's museums are marking 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement and an extravagant portrait of a 19th century French actor
London dealer Alison Jacques to open new headquarters on illustrious Cork Street this autumn
She will open the three-storey, 6,000 sq ft space with shows by Sheila Hicks and Robert Mapplethorpe
Timothy Taylor takes Tribeca: dealer is latest to move gallery from Chelsea to hip New York neighbourhood
Tribeca has reached a critical mass of around 50 galleries