The French cultural body RMN put Fiac's October slot up for tender last year—now the Swiss firm MCH will launch a contemporary art fair, paying €10.6m for a seven-year contract

After selling its share in late 2018, the Swiss conglomerate has again taken a 15% stake in the event

Well over half the galleries participating in the fair are opting for satellite booths as travel restrictions continue to disrupt large-scale events

The Dutch art and antiques fair was forced to postpone its March event due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions, but will now run from 25 to 30 June

Siddall, the global director of Frieze fairs, has been at the firm for 18 years. She will leave after the Los Angeles event this February but remain on the board

The monumental L’empire des lumières, painted in 1961 for the artist's muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, has never been sold before but will now be auctioned at Sotheby's in London in March

US dominance, industry collaborations and increased concern about climate change are all on art market experts’ minds—and, of course, NFTs

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