Carlie Porterfield

New York fair Portal will not return to Governors Island after clash with trust over event space

Representatives for The Trust for Governors Island said they could not accommodate the fair’s requests amid surging demand for exhibition space on the island.

Wildfire smoke in New York shuts down art world events

Hazardous air blowing smoke into the city from fires in Canada pressed cultural institutions and art spaces to close or postpone events

Starfish brooch designed by Salvador Dalí sells for nearly $1m at Christie’s

The brooch once belonged to socialite Rebekah Harkness, the subject of a Taylor Swift song

Dealer Robert Mnuchin and his daughter opened a restaurant on New York's Shelter Island

The blue-chip art dealer and his daughter Valerie Mnuchin have opened Léon 1909, serving French and Italian dishes

186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s 100th birthday

Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Sotheby’s will pay $100m for the Whitney Museum’s Marcel Breuer building

The auction house expects to move into the Madison Avenue building in 2025, vacating its current York Avenue headquarters

Carlie Porterfield. , with additional reporting by Scott Reyburn

French actor Alain Delon’s art collection heads to auction

"The Leopard" star’s collection could bring in as much as €5m at Bonhams in Paris

Palm Beach art dealer sentenced to over two years in prison for blue-chip art fraud scheme

Victims spent “tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars” on counterfeit art sold by the dealer, according to the US Department of Justice

Propelled by Marie Antoinette's poodle, mid-season Old Masters auctions in New York fetch nearly $13m

Specialists at Christie’s and Sotheby’s dismissed concerns about a decline in the Old Masters market

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Scoop: ice cream company launching Keith Haring flavour for Pride Month

Van Leeuwen's new "passion fruit berry pop" flavour was inspired by the late artist’s colourful work, and some proceeds from sales will go to LGBTQ+ causes in New York

Two important collections of Chinese art coming to Christie's New York during next Asia Week sales

Sales of the ancient Chinese sculptures and jade carvings are expected to collectively fetch nearly $10m in September

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

Phillips scores $69.5m in New York evening sale, led by Banksy’s take on Basquiat

A painting by Noah Davis reached more than nine times its low estimate after a 12-minute bidding war

Is Frieze New York well placed to jolt an iffy art market?

Dealers hope the fair will create some momentum during a sluggish season

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Christie’s pulls off a safe 21st-century evening sale in New York, powered largely by a $58m Basquiat

While a handful of lots—including new records for Diane Arbus and Simone Leigh—created a buzz in saleroom, bids felt reined in amid economic uncertainty

At Tefaf New York, dealers spotlight work by women

Gallerists at the fair say more collectors are invested in greater gender diversity among their holdings and are keen to invest in art by women

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

Photographs from Madonna’s Sex book go to auction for the first time

Proceeds from prints that were first published in the bestselling coffee table book will go toward the singer’s Malawi non-profit

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Auction houses anticipate $2.2bn from New York spring sales despite cooling market

Demand for ultra contemporary works may have eased but there is little sign of a sales slump, say the New York firms

Officials in Mexico call on Dutch auction house to halt sale of pre-Columbian artefacts

Some 30 objects in an auction this week are protected by Mexico’s cultural heritage laws, authorities there say

KAWS wins nearly $1m in damages in counterfeit lawsuit

Artist Brian Donnelly first filed the lawsuit against Dylan Joy An Leong Yi Zhi in 2021

The Armory Show lines up more than 225 galleries for fair’s third year at sprawling Javits Center

The fair has grown to be among the largest in the world since it began as a hotel fair in 1994

Rare Gustav Klimt lake landscape to make auction debut in New York

The painting is estimated to sell for around $45m next month at Sotheby's

Dallas Art Fair gets a boost from Texas’s resilient economy and surging population

Despite the fair’s more sedate, distinctly Southern pace, local and international dealers reported plenty of sales during the VIP preview

Dallas Museum of Art acquires 12 works at Dallas Art Fair with annual gift

The museum spent $100,000 to bolster its collection thanks to funding from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation

Battle of the Basquiats: Christie’s and Sotheby’s both have big, eight-figure paintings lined up for marquee spring sales

'El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)' and 'Now’s the Time' are estimated to sell for $45m at Christie’s and $30m at Sotheby’s, respectively

Renoir, Degas and Goya works from collection of Rhode Island School of Design’s founding family head to auction

The paintings and drawings are estimated to fetch more than $8m at Christie’s New York in May

Victor Vasarely works seized in Puerto Rico amid longstanding family feud over Op artist’s legacy

More than 100 paintings by the late artist and his son were allegedly taken in the FBI raid

Three US museums use prize funds to acquire works from Expo Chicago

The institutions that won the fair's Northern Trust Purchase Prize selected artwork by artists Mohau Modisakeng, Wole Lagunju and Claudia Peña Salinas for their permanent collections