Our pick of highlights from December's auctions

Tis the season for Old Masters: here are three works to seek out, from a mythological marriage portrait to Annibale Carracci's sketch on an old account book

For Frieze Projects, artists including Barbara Kruger and Paul McCarthy will create site-specific works within Paramount Pictures Studios's fake New York city

Under president Xi Jinping's increasingly stringent regime, galleries must negotiate a slow and capricious approval process to show works of art

Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions

Third-party auction deals have made some people very rich—but they may be bad for the market in the long run

From Louise Bourgeois’s giant spider at the Long Museum to literally walking on glass at the Shanghai Museum of Glass

Galleries are also seemingly undeterred by tussles between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping

Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe

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

Emirati fair says she will work alongside the artistic director in a move away from having a single leader

Brexit and Trump's trade war with China are affecting the mood of buyers

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

Francis Bacon's lighter depiction of George Dyer leads auction at £17.5m, with strong prices for Hurvin Anderson, Bridget Riley and Albert Oehlen

Profits from the sale will support new UK arts education programme in 2019

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

Work at Galerie Kamel Mennour is quite literally ground-breaking

Fair focuses on women but market still favours men

From Kerry James Marshall's all-new paintings in London to Zoe Leonard's decade-long photo series in Los Angeles, these are the commercial gallery shows to see

Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions

The success of Tefaf New York Spring this year marked a sea-change

Research by The Art Newspaper uncovers wide disparity in both fee structures and transparency

Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions

Event aims to become the Mediterranean’s premier art fair, against stiff competition

Our pick from this week's auctions and fairs

Freya Simms speaks ahead of the tenth Lapada Art & Antiques Fair in London

Our pick from this week's auctions and exhibitions

In September 2008, Damien Hirst sold £111m of art as Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a financial crisis. A decade on, what has changed?

$450.3m Leonardo da Vinci painting was due to be unveiled at museum in two weeks but its display has now been delayed

A further 6,000 items belonging to Ali Aboutaam of Phoenix Ancient Art are still held by authorities in Geneva