Papers show Tefaf sought New York Supreme Court ruling releasing it from obligation to employ Artvest for bi-annual fairs

Western interest in contemporary works from the continent is at a high, but that can be a double-edged sword

Fledgling local client base and rising international interest fuel Cape Town and Marrakech shows

From Diane Arbus's intimate portraits of street life at the Hayward Gallery to a window into the future at the Whitechapel Gallery

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

Our highlights of works being sold over the next fortnight

Our pick of the highlights from January's auctions and fairs

Our pick of highlights from January's auctions

From Singapore and Taiwan to Los Angeles, new events attempt to break into world's fastest growing art markets

New US owner of former Chinese building-materials business turns to lucrative fractional ownership of art

David Hockney was latest white male artist to set a record this year

First major survey in Shanghai of late artist’s work includes giant spider on loan from Tate

The people, places and things that had a year to remember—or to forget

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

From a Tschabalala Self painting donated to the Art Institute of Chicago to Goshka Macuga's commission the Norwegian parliament

Country's galleries are out in force at the fair after far-right Jair Bolsonaro's election

Former deal-maker, who joined the auction house in 2016 with the acquisition of Art Agency, Partners, will leave on 31 December

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