Carlie Porterfield

Christie's Elton John evening sale proves Wednesday night is alright for buying

The auction nearly matched its $6.4m high estimate before fees, as art brought the money while luxury and memorabilia drove the bidding

Untitled Art fair acquired by South Florida luxury lifestyle portfolio

The fair, founded in 2012, is one of the biggest satellite events of Miami Art Week and previously operated a second iteration in San Francisco

Phillips's selling show of contemporary Indigenous art reflects surge in curatorial interest

Collectors’ enthusiastic response to 'New Terrains' exhibition is latest signal that the market is finally catching up

Artbonews

Economic woe can’t take the shine off Colombia's art trade

Dealers in the country remain buoyant despite a weak currency and a new wealth tax

Two more Egon Schiele works restituted to heirs of Holocaust victim will head to auction

The two works on paper once belonged to Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer who was killed in the Holocaust

Crime news

Suspect arrested in murder of dealer Brent Sikkema

A detective told local media that police are investigating theft leading to homicide

Phillips chief executive Stephen Brooks steps down after two years

Brooks, who joined the company in 2021, has left for personal reasons

Hunter Biden’s art dealer questioned by House Oversight Committee

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee questioned New York art dealer Georges Bergès this week about representing US President Joe Biden’s son

Works entering the US public domain in 2024 include an M.C. Escher woodcut and Mickey and Minnie Mouse

With copyrights from 1928 expiring, thousands of creative works are now free to share, copy and build upon

Collector couple opt to sell $43m Picasso trove via London gallery

The works, owned by Pieter and Olga Dreesmann, would usually be consigned to an auction house but instead will be sold by Ward Moretti

Metropolitan Museum's deaccessioned George Washington portrait could bring $2.5m at auction

The Gilbert Stuart painting is one of less than 20 versions of the image known to exist

The Armory Show picks three curators for New York fair's 30th anniversary edition

Eugenie Tsai, Robyn Farrell and Lauren Cornell will lead curatorial initiatives for the fair's 30th anniversary edition

Border Biennial showcases art across the Texas-Mexico border

It’s the first physical iteration of the El Paso and Juárez exhibition in five years, after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 edition

$100,000 in prizes will allow museums, hotels and others to acquire works at Expo Chicago in 2024

The boost in prize funds comes as the first edition of the Chicago fair since its acquisition by Frieze approaches

In pictures: Design Miami makes a stand

Furniture clad in shingles, a tiger with a ceramic coat and a chair made of chains are some of the highlights of Design Miami 2023

Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres wins French art prize

CPGA-Etant donnés Prize is awarded to artists either from or working in France

Surrealist Leonor Fini makes a Miami Beach splash

Amid surging interest in women Surrealists, Galerie Minsky and Weinstein Gallery devoted their joint stand to the Argentine painter

VIPs keep market afloat at Art Basel in Miami Beach

As Art Basel in Miami Beach opened, sales were swift, though not often at sky-high prices of past years

Twenty-five years later, landmark Nazi loot rules still shape restitution fights

The Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, released on 3 December 1998, are non-binding but nevertheless continue to enable the pursuit of justice

‘In Miami, we are quite unique’: Ukrainian gallerists on their new Miami space

Allapattah outpost of Kyiv's Voloshyn Gallery aims to create dialogue between Eastern European, US and Latin American artists

Long-unseen royal portrait by Diego Velázquez could bring $35m at auction

The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's

White Cube will represent Lynne Drexler's archive outside the US

The market for the American painter exploded last year, more than two decades after her death

Art fairsanalysis

Amid a weak economy and political pressures, Artbo nurtures Colombia's nascent contemporary art market

The 19th edition of the Bogotá fair—one of Latin America's most important—has shifted location and date

Sotheby’s $306m The Now and Contemporary sales wrap up a mediocre New York auction season

Both sales persevered through a lukewarm atmosphere to break into the lower reaches of their estimate ranges

Art marketanalysis

Why Les Lalanne are in high demand

Buyers are flocking to nature-inspired works by the French artists François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne

Late American broadcaster Barbara Walters’s collection nets $5m at Bonhams

All of the proceeds from Walters’s art collection—along with her jewellery and home décor—will go toward charitable causes, according to her estate

Christie's 21st century evening sale falls short of expectations, opening New York's autumn auction cycle on uneasy note

Several 'wet paint' works soared while multiple blue-chip lots underperformed, defying conventional market wisdom

Five superlative presentations to seek out at The ADAA Art Show

From the Most Monumental to the Best Re-appraisal, a quintet of standouts not to be missed at the Art Dealers Association of America's annual fair