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German galleries block VAT increase

Dealers and even the country’s culture minister oppose a 12% tax rise on the purchase of original works of art

Published online: 15 May 2013

Art fund calls for greater transparency

Founder of Tiroche DeLeon collection says increased openness will attract wider interest

Published online: 15 May 2013

How prevalent is money laundering in the art world?

Federal raid on the Helly Nahmad Gallery in New York and a new book by a Brazilian judge point to a "big problem"

Published online: 13 May 2013

Collector says Sotheby’s sold him Nazi-owned art—now it's unsellable

Uncertainty over whether the work, once owned by Goering, was looted means that auction houses don't want to put it on the block

Published online: 02 May 2013

Twenty years of White Cube

Jay Jopling started his gallery in 1993. Two decades later, he’s no less secretive but a whole lot richer

Published online: 01 May 2013

Gallery:  Object lessons from Tefaf Maastricht

As the fair opens, our pick of what’s on offer this year. To read more from the special report on past masters in our March issue, pick up a copy on newsstands or subscribe to our digital or print editions.

Gallery:  New York Old Master auctions preview slideshow

Every year it gets worse. Each January, Sotheby’s and Christie’s New York hold their annual Old Master blowout. And every year, they cram their competing sales into shrinking time periods, making it impossible for anyone to attend a paintings sale without missing a drawings sale and vice versa. Twelve sales (eight at Sotheby’s and four at Christie’s) are, with one exception, shoehorned into three days—30 and 31 January and 1 February.

No more horn section in Denmark

The Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen has stopped selling...

Nothing to be ashamed of

You couldn’t be blamed for associating the exposed male body with Frieze: for instance, one can hardly miss the penis shots in Paul...

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Will Brazil's bubble burst?

At Art Basel Miami Beach a leading art market expert and an artist discuss the vogue for all things Brazilian. Is this the result of the expanding economy or a flourishing art scene?