
Anna Brady
Highlights from July's auctions: from a Leonardo bear to a Dürer-inspired hare
Our pick of the works coming up for sale in London and Los Angeles
June auction highlights: from a delicate Degas pastel to a Kandinsky painting once owned by the Guggenheim museum
Our pick of the best objects up for sale in London and New York
Anonymous peer-to-peer trading platform LiveArt Market launches with $5m of sales already—but how on earth does it work?
Buyers and sellers will never know each others identity when transacting through the online site, but its founders say such privacy encourages trust and transparency
'Two cool older boys': Lucian Freud's portrait of David Hockney expected to sell for up to £12m
The work, which took four months to paint in 2002, will be auctioned at Sotheby's this month
Sotheby's owner Patrick Drahi buys £2.2bn majority stake in BT
The cost-cutting French telecommunications billionaire has formed Altice UK to buy a 12.1% stake in the company
If you sell art in the UK, you must register for anti-money laundering supervision by tomorrow—or risk prosecution
"Art market participants" who sell works of art worth €10,000 (£8,600) or more must register with the HMRC by 10 June
Artists will not be subject to anti-money laundering regulations, UK Treasury says
After lobbying from art organisations, government has made last-minute decision that creators who sell their work direct to clients will not be classed as "Art Market Participants"
Frieze got Seoul: fair to launch in South Korea next year
The first event, featuring 100 exhibitors, will run in September 2022 in partnership with Galleries Association of Korea
Collector's Eye: Yan Du
The Hong Kong- and London-based collector talks about glowing mushrooms and her dream of feeding specialty dumplings to Yayoi Kusama and Leonora Carrington
Thaddaeus Ropac is the latest Western gallery to open in Seoul
With its resilient economy through the pandemic, South Korea is attracting the art industry's attention, with rumours of Frieze launching a fair in Seoul next year
Christie's to offer paid internships to students with disabilities
Auction house has partnered with disability charity Leonard Cheshire's Change 100 programme to give work placements in-house and fund others at Tate and National Galleries of Scotland
Charles I disposed of this Van Dyck portrait when he signed the sitter's death warrant. Now it is up for sale at Christie's
The 17th century painting of the Earl of Strafford, recently discovered to have been in the Royal collection, is expected to sell for up to £5m in London in July
Artists are expected to give away their work for charity. This new auction platform aims to give them something back in return
The Stand has been launched by former Sotheby's boss and will give 70% to artists, 20% to charity
Crypto-creep accelerates as Sotheby's accepts Ether and Bitcoin for $5m Banksy painting
The sale this month will be the first time the auction house has accepted cryptocurrency as payment for a physical work of art
Taxidermy flying kittens, Irish giants and Queen Victoria's knickers: the world of Viktor Wynd
The artist, writer and dealer is selling a selection of bizarre pieces from his London-based Museum of Curiosities on 6 May
'I was brought here to get the company sold privately and that is done': Amy Cappellazzo to leave Sotheby's in July
Brooke Lampley and Mari-Claudia Jiménez will step up into new roles in the global fine art division, while Gregoire Billault is the new chairman of contemporary art
Flight of the Balloon Dog: Jeff Koons leaves Gagosian and David Zwirner galleries for Pace
The gallery will now represent the shiniest and most expensive living artist worldwide
Gettin' biddy wit it: Will Smith handprint painting to appear alongside works by Hockney and Picasso in Dubai auction
Charity sale is in aid of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's "100 Million Meals" campaign
Gallery Climate Coalition expands to Berlin
The London-based eco-friendly initiative aims to reduce galleries' carbon footprints by at least 50% over the next decade—now German galleries are getting involved too
Lockdown easing: the best gallery shows to see in London right now
Eerie wooden cabins, rural quiltmakers and dismembered, tentacular dolls are among our highlights from the city's commercial exhibitions
Frieze Los Angeles 2021 is cancelled, new venue for 2022
The fair will move from Paramount Studios to a tent on Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, for its next edition in February
Christie’s to auction a slice of NFT history for $9m this May
Larva Labs created 10,000 CryptoPunks three years ago—and gave away most of them
Object lessons: from illuminated early golf memorabilia to a marble fragment with a twist
Our pick of the highlights from April's auctions
Art Dubai fair opens—in real life—with 'pay nothing up front' plan for galleries
Most of the 50 exhibitors participating are based in the Middle East but seven who are unable to travel in person have sent works for "remote participation" stands
Casting doubt over hopes of a 'normal' UK summer, Masterpiece London cancels June fair
The fair will hold an online event in some form, while the London Original Print Fair plans to hold a gallery-based event for 33 of its exhibitors this May
Sacha Jafri reveals the backbreaking process of creating 'world's largest painting' that sold for $62m
The work sold to cryptocurrency entrepreneur Andre Abdoune and all proceeds will be donated to four charities fighting child poverty
Banksy's Game Changer sells for record £16.7m in aid of charities supporting the NHS
The work appeared suddenly last May at the University Hospital Southampton as a thank you to its staff during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Jean-Michel Basquiat's Warrior becomes most expensive western work of art sold in Asia at $41.7m
The 1982 work sold today at Christie's in Hong Kong to an Asian buyer
Christie’s abandons Impressionist and Modern and post-war and contemporary sale categories
The new 20th and 21st century auction format will launch in New York this May
Sotheby’s gets in on NFT fever with a collaboration with digital artist Pak
Auction house's head of sale Max Moore has already personally bought a work by the artist