Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions

Art Market Mentors is looking for mentees for next year's programme, and applications close on 31 December

The New York-based author has just released a three-part podcast series on The Hidden Side of the Art Market. Here, he speaks about what he learned—and why art is a bad financial investment, but a good emotional one

Results are the highest since 2015 and come in just behind Sotheby’s $7.3bn. Hong Kong expansion plan will continue despite Beijing crackdown, as auction house "separates what is political and what is business"

The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars

The Dutch event is asking all dealers to pay €7,500 "towards expenses and other contractual obligations". A new date for the fair next year is to be confirmed

London Art Week has partnered with the Jewish Country Houses research project to hold a three-part online talks programme

The work, consisting of 83 child-size figures in concrete and wood, was made in the late 1990s and has been exhibited on the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

“Rich and fascinating” connections explored in Life Between Islands: British-Caribbean Art 1950s-Now

Our pick of the works coming up for sale in London and Munich

The fair's chief executive Marc Spiegler says greater gallery diversity and a changing global scene have shaped this month’s event

Messineo, who previously worked for Bortolami and Hannah Hoffman galleries, will head up Frieze Los Angeles and Frieze New York following the departure of Bettina Korek and Loring Randolph

The larger than life-size statue was brought back from Rome by the Duke of Hamilton in the 18th century and is named after his Scottish palace

Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer

Our pick of the works coming up for sale in Paris, New York and Rome

The oil sketch, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, has never appeared at auction before and is expected for sell for between £2m to £3m this December in London

Phillips and Maak Contemporary Ceramics will jointly sell the collection of the late John Driscoll on 10 November, including works by Lucie Rie, Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji

Works owned by the St Ives artist will be auctioned at Lyon & Turnbull in London tomorrow night

The 1964 Little Electric Chair silkscreen will be auctioned in Arizona and is expected to make up to $4.5m.

The latest Hiscox Online Art Trade Report finds that this booming asset class benefitted from a late-summer surge

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?

Buying a work and donating another to a museum sounds like a win-win—but who really benefits?

Tate Britain's ambitious show in December comes at a time of widespread interest in the overlooked artists of Caribbean heritage

The London-based collector tells us what she has bought and why

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

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

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

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

Despite the success of the fair's first post-pandemic edition, galleries are weighing up the future

The Basel-based collector tells us what he's bought and why