PreviewArt fairs
From a change in sponsorship to new directorship, Art Dubai prepares to open after year of upheaval
Co-directors Pablo de Val and Chloe Vaitsou reshuffle the fair's layout and focus on art from the Global South with guest stars from Latin America
NewsArt market
Bid me up before you go-go: sun goes down on George Michael’s art collection at Christie’s
Buyers have faith in Tracey Emin who leads the white glove, YBA-heavy sale, but Damien Hirst’s market continues to soften
BlogTEFAF Maastricht 2019
Spoonfuls of brie and G&T fishbowls—how to gain the Maastricht inch
Tefaf exhibitors know their food, drink and naked saunas, so here is their guide to the most indulgent spots in the Dutch city
NewsArt market
Gerhard Richter’s jet fighter painting finally takes off at Phillips after bumpy legal battle
After previous buyer defaulted on paying for the work in 2016, painting sold in London for £15.5m in a significantly smaller auction compared with 2018
FeatureCollecting
Hustlers with a habit: what five Tefaf exhibitors collect and why
From Dinky toys to Old Masters, dealers share what objects take their fancy
NewsArt market
Smaller galleries rely on just one artist for almost half their income, Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report finds
Gender parity and behaviour of high net worth collectors are focuses of the study, which calculates market grew to $67.4bn in 2018
NewsArt market
Getting Old Masters' sexy back: Colnaghi to take over Venetian abbey for Biennale show
London-based gallery will team up with interior designer Chahan to create "home of a 21st-century Grand Tourist" in the medieval Abbazia di San Gregorio
NewsArt market
Blain Southern to open in New York
British art dealers will open in Cheim & Read's former Chelsea space in May with a show of Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté
NewsArt market
London's Masterpiece fair to expand to Hong Kong with Fine Art Asia
After announcing it would launch new international events in 2017, London fair takes cautious approach with pavilion within existing fair this October
PreviewCommercial galleries
Private View: our pick of March gallery shows around the world
New commercial gallery shows—from sculpture to shipwreck paintings
NewsArt market
The good, the pricey and the Surreal: Monet flops while Signac glows at Christie's sale
Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction makes second highest total for Christie's London at £165.4m, but much of overpriced collection goes unsold
NewsArt market
Keep the Monet flowing: trim but efficient Sotheby's sale starts London's pre-Brexit Impressionist and Modern art week
£63m auction total is half that of last year, but bidding from Asia and Russia helps make new record for Oskar Schlemmer and a Venetian view by Monet
NewsObject lessons
Object lessons: from Egon Schiele's nod to Gustav Klimt to black magic by René Magritte
Our highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions
NewsArt market
Tefaf and Artvest tussle over management of New York fairs
Papers show Tefaf sought New York Supreme Court ruling releasing it from obligation to employ Artvest for bi-annual fairs
ReviewArt market
This is African art's Golden Age, but can 1-54 Marrakech help build a sustainable domestic clientele?
Western interest in contemporary works from the continent is at a high, but that can be a double-edged sword
NewsArt market
Economic growth spurs Africa’s art market—but slowly
Fledgling local client base and rising international interest fuel Cape Town and Marrakech shows
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Diane Arbus's intimate portraits of street life at the Hayward Gallery to a window into the future at the Whitechapel Gallery
NewsArt market
'Piss artist' Andres Serrano buys Trump's wedding cake
Artist paid $1,880 for the mini chocolate cake, given as a favour at US President's marriage in 2005, but is tight-lipped about his plans for the baked good
NewsObject lessons
Object lessons: from a heart-shaped meteorite to a censored image of Joséphine Baker
Our highlights of works being sold over the next fortnight
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2019
Three new fairs not to miss in 2019
From Singapore and Taiwan to Los Angeles, new events attempt to break into world's fastest growing art markets
NewsOld Masters
Brickmaker moves out of construction and into Old Masters investment, buying a $75m Michelangelo painting
New US owner of former Chinese building-materials business turns to lucrative fractional ownership of art
AnalysisThe Year In Review
2018 in the market: the price is right for pale males
David Hockney was latest white male artist to set a record this year
PreviewExhibitions
China finally gets caught in Louise Bourgeois’s web
First major survey in Shanghai of late artist’s work includes giant spider on loan from Tate
AnalysisThe Year In Review
From counting muddles to collective cuddles: the art world's highs and lows of 2018
The people, places and things that had a year to remember—or to forget
InterviewCollector's Eye
Collector's eye: Jonathan Anderson
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
InterviewCollector's Eye
Collector's eye: Estrellita B. Brodsky
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2018
A gift for Chicago, a new work for Norway, and a Rothko rockets in price: talking points at Art Basel in Miami Beach
From a Tschabalala Self painting donated to the Art Institute of Chicago to Goshka Macuga's commission the Norwegian parliament
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Brazil's artists and galleries fight back at Art Basel Miami Beach
Country's galleries are out in force at the fair after far-right Jair Bolsonaro's election
NewsArt market
Adam Chinn to leave Sotheby's after chief operating officer role is 'eliminated'
Former deal-maker, who joined the auction house in 2016 with the acquisition of Art Agency, Partners, will leave on 31 December
NewsArt market
Fairytale of New York in La-La land—artists to take over film set at Frieze Los Angeles
For Frieze Projects, artists including Barbara Kruger and Paul McCarthy will create site-specific works within Paramount Pictures Studios's fake New York city
NewsArt market
Censorship could stifle China's art market
Under president Xi Jinping's increasingly stringent regime, galleries must negotiate a slow and capricious approval process to show works of art
AnalysisAuctions
The highs and lows of New York ‘gigaweek’
Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions
NewsArt market
Guarantees: the next big art market scandal?
Third-party auction deals have made some people very rich—but they may be bad for the market in the long run
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Shanghai this weekend
From Louise Bourgeois’s giant spider at the Long Museum to literally walking on glass at the Shanghai Museum of Glass
PreviewArt market
Shanghai’s two rapidly expanding fairs—Art021 and West Bund Art and Design—are attracting dealers despite China's slowing economy
Galleries are also seemingly undeterred by tussles between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping
NewsArt market
Eric Albada Jelgersma's Old Master collection estimated to make over £26m at Christie's
Pair of portraits by Frans Hals expected to lead two-day sale of collection of Dutch entrepreneur, who was advised by the dealer Robert Noortman
NewsAppointments & departures
Art Dubai appoints new international director Chloe Vaitsou, formerly of Frieze Fairs
Emirati fair says she will work alongside the artistic director in a move away from having a single leader
InterviewFrieze London 2018
Collector's Eye: David Roberts
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
NewsFrieze London 2018
Contemporary art market cools as confidence drops
Brexit and Trump's trade war with China are affecting the mood of buyers
NewsArt market
British artists dominate Christie's patchy £71.1m sale, as over-priced Koons and Richter fail to sell
Francis Bacon's lighter depiction of George Dyer leads auction at £17.5m, with strong prices for Hurvin Anderson, Bridget Riley and Albert Oehlen
NewsFrieze London 2018
Christie's to auction works by Grenfell victim Khadija Saye
Profits from the sale will support new UK arts education programme in 2019
InterviewFrieze London 2018
Collector’s Eye: Nicky Wilson
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
NewsFrieze London 2018
Tatiana Trouvé’s shamanic tree takes root at Frieze London
Work at Galerie Kamel Mennour is quite literally ground-breaking
NewsFrieze London 2018
Frieze London fights gender gap—but how many female artists are at the fair?
Fair focuses on women but market still favours men
PreviewArt market
US fairs help bring new blood to Tefaf Maastricht
The success of Tefaf New York Spring this year marked a sea-change
AnalysisArt market
Fair’s fair? The murky world of stand costs
Research by The Art Newspaper uncovers wide disparity in both fee structures and transparency
PreviewArt market
Object Lessons: from a polaroid of Basquiat to a Ming dynasty bodhisattvas
Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions
BlogIn the frame
Art Mallorca: when Love Island meets the art world
Event aims to become the Mediterranean’s premier art fair, against stiff competition
PreviewArt market
Object Lessons: from Barbara Hepworth's St Ives bronze to Grant Wood's censored lithograph
Our pick from this week's auctions and fairs
PreviewArt market
New Lapada chief on the challenges facing middle market antiques dealers
Freya Simms speaks ahead of the tenth Lapada Art & Antiques Fair in London
PreviewArt market
Object Lessons: from a Venetian glass bowl to an ancient Chinese ritual vessel
Our pick from this week's auctions and exhibitions
AnalysisArt market
Rolling with the punches: how the art market bounced back
In 2008, Damien Hirst sold £111m of art as Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a financial crisis. A decade on, what has changed?
NewsMuseums
Salvator Mundi will not go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi this month, for reasons unknown
$450.3m Leonardo da Vinci painting was due to be unveiled at museum in two weeks but its display has now been delayed
NewsArt market
Swiss prosecutor returns 'Mesopotamian' terracotta animal made by dealer's 11-year-old-daughter—along with 5,000 seized antiquities
A further 6,000 items belonging to Ali Aboutaam of Phoenix Ancient Art are still held by authorities in Geneva
NewsArt market
Sticking the knife into the patriarchy: Artemisia Gentileschi painting to be sold for the first time in Vienna
The female Italian Baroque artist's depiction of Lucretia is thought to have been in European collection since the 19th century
NewsArt market
Sotheby’s earnings take a hit as demanding consignors and guarantors squeeze its commission margin
Just two paintings significantly damaged the auction house's bottom line in the second quarter
NewsArt market
Leaked document on EU import licensing proposals is deeply concerning, say dealer associations
IADAA and CINOA argue that compromise amendments to contentious new cultural goods regulations are still too stringent and ill-defined
NewsLaw
Iranian gallerists released on bail after two years in Tehran prison
Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari paid a bail of around $10m according to sources but still await appeal request
AnalysisArt market
More than just a pretty face: furrowed brows win at Christie's patchy Old Master sale, but £6.7m sculpture tops paintings
Tacca's Hercules is star of the bronzes, while Carracci's military portrait and Rembrandt's print find favour where Rubens's daughter flounders in £31.1m sale
AnalysisArt market
Guarantees, the Beckham effect and warts-and-all portraits: Sotheby's pulls off a consistent Old Master sale
No big hitters, but overall quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America buoyed £42.6m auction, with £5.3m record for Canova set in day sale
NewsArt market
Otto Naumann comes out of 'retirement' to join Sotheby's
Veteran Old Master dealer will join the auction house in New York at the end of the summer, months after selling his inventory there
NewsArt market
Glut of sculpture in London auctions, despite Giambologna withdrawal
Bronze and marble take centre stage during Old Masters sales week, although Dresden Mars returns home without going on the block at Sotheby's
PreviewLondon Art Week
Re-discoveries, the Holy Grail of Old Master dealers: we pick out four at London Art Week
From a Van Dyck once thought to be by Rubens to William Nicholson's portrait of an actress identified only weeks ago
NewsArt market
Myrna Ayad steps down as Art Dubai director, while fair plans to move Modern section in 2019
Ayad says decision to leave was "personal" and plans to launch her own art consultancy