
Anna Brady
Rock Legend Alice Cooper is selling the Warhol he forgot he owned—then found in his garage
The 1964 Little Electric Chair silkscreen will be auctioned in Arizona and is expected to make up to $4.5m.
NFT art sales hit $3.5bn so far this year—but market is still volatile
The latest Hiscox Online Art Trade Report finds that this booming asset class benefitted from a late-summer surge
Too much too young? The double-edged sword of early success for artists
As British painters in their 20s and 30s are commanding huge sums for their work, how does the market frenzy affect their career in the longer term?
Buy one, gift one free: why collectors acquire two works and give one away
Buying a work and donating another to a museum sounds like a win-win—but who really benefits?
Caribbean-British artists: the long road to recognition
Tate Britain's ambitious show in December comes at a time of widespread interest in the overlooked artists of Caribbean heritage
Collector's eye: Batia Ofer
The London-based collector tells us what she has bought and why
It all started with a Roman bowl bought for 75p: antiquities dealership Charles Ede celebrates 50 years in business
The London gallery, now run by Martin Clist and Charis Tyndall, is marking five decades with an exhibition of Greek black glaze pottery opening this week
'Not just another Zoom project': New 'non-hierarchical' International Galleries Alliance launches to bring art world together
The information sharing community hopes to launch with 300 members and has been founded by a group of galleries including Sadie Coles, Blum & Poe, Stevenson and Carlos/Ishikawa
Vaccines? Negative tests? Frieze is back in town, here is everything you need to know before you go
With strict Covid-19 protocols in place, galleries have worked hard to come up with new ways of exhibiting at the London fairs this year
'We have never catered to an exotic idea of what art from Africa is about': Tiwani Contemporary to launch gallery in Lagos as it celebrates ten years in business
Maria Varnava, the founder of the London gallery which specialises in artists from Africa and the diaspora, on opening a gallery on the continent where she grew up and why she is wary of speculators
Art Basel 2021: it’s good to be back—but things are going to change, dealers say
Despite the success of the fair's first post-pandemic edition, galleries are weighing up the future
Collector's eye: Hans Furer
The Basel-based collector tells us what he's bought and why
Galerie Nagel Draxler presents ‘Crypto Kiosk’ of NFTs at Art Basel booth
The satellite fair Photo Basel is also offering digital photographic NFTs for sale
From a cashmere coated console to a leafy Lalanne chair: Design Miami/Basel director chooses her highlights
The fair may be smaller than usual this year but Jennifer Roberts says she has never known the collectible design market to be in such rude health
Real-life Art Basel prepares to return—and steps down from its ivory tower
Arranging the event amid a shifting pandemic has been fraught with risk—but it is a risk worth taking, says global director Marc Spiegler
Ethiopian gallery Addis Fine Art to open space in London
One of the few Black-owned galleries in London, the space will open with a show of Nirit Takele in October as the gallery takes part in Frieze London for the first time
New Miart director Nicola Ricciardi on rebuilding an art fair from scratch as the pandemic rumbles on
Ricciardi was previously artistic director of Turin's OGR art centre which was used as a hospital for Covid-19 patients last year
Sotheby's wins 'dogfight' to sell $600m art collection of Harry and Linda Macklowe
Auction house will sell the 65 works, including $70m works by Rothko and Giacometti, in two standalone sales in November and next May
From a Roly-Poly chair to a 15th-century illuminated manuscript made for the King of France: five highlights from Tefaf Online
Our pick of items that are for sale via the fair's online platform, which replaces the IRL fair which had been scheduled to run this week in Maastricht
Art Basel promises to pay quarantine hotel bills and launches $1.6m 'solidarity fund' for galleries who fail to make sales
As exhibitors threaten to pull out of the fair in the face of travel uncertainty, another letter offering "extraordinary" one-off concessions to dealers is sent
Object lessons: from an Inuit child's parka made of seal guts to a golden shawl spun from spider silk
Our pick of the highlights from this month's fairs and auctions
Art Basel writes letter of reassurance as galleries suggest fair should be cancelled
Fair says it is committed to going ahead but offers concessions to exhibitors, including rolling over booth fees to 2022 if they cannot enter the country and offering staff to man stands
Art Basel gets complicated: Swiss authorities will not accept Astra Zeneca vaccine while US issues ‘do not travel’ advisory
Non-EU visitors will have to apply for Swiss Covid-19 certificate before attending and, with certain vaccines not recognised, some will have to take tests onsite
More uncertainty for autumn fair season: PAD London cancels
The art and design event has been cancelled due to the continuing difficult travel situation between the UK and France and will return in October 2022
Former Bonhams owner Robert Brooks dies
The ambitious auctioneer started out in car racing before going into art and antiques, eventually retiring to his farm near Exmoor to rear a herd of beef cattle
Need a 100-year-old Inuit parka made from seal guts? Dealer Peter Petrou to sell collection at Sotheby's
The London-based dealer of four decades is downsizing and having a 200-lot sale of contemporary art, Modern furniture, ethnographic art and antiquities
Let them buy cake! From Charles and Diana to Donald Trump, the auction stars of the wedding cake world
As a 40-year-old piece of icing and marzipan sells for £1,850, we look at the market for elderly baked goods (topped by a £15,000 biscuit)
The dep-Art-ment store: New York gets new gallery hub within Barneys former flagship store
Tefaf New York's former co-owners will launch the five-storey Art House this November with space for 60 galleries and a member's club—a similar model to London's Cromwell Place
‘I don’t touch contemporary art—it’s a gamble’: 102-year-old appraiser Alex Rosenberg on how deducing value is both a science and an art
Rosenberg, who has been an expert witness in court cases including the Knoedler trial, retrained as an appraiser when he retired as an art dealer in 1985
'I am honoured to be one of the first Black men to have my work sent to space': Amoako Boafo to paint triptych on rocket
The Ghanaian painter speaks about his plans for the work, which will be attached to the head of a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket when it blasts into space this autumn