Our pick of highlights from New York's Master Week sales

Swiss fair was also delayed from June to September in 2020, before being cancelled altogether due to coronavirus

Some insurers using "aggressive tactics" to reduce barrage of claims following rejection of appeal on clarification of business interruption cover

Auction includes 40 drawings by Le Tan and over 500 eclectic lots from his Parisian apartment

After a year marked by cancellations, international fairs such as Art Basel, Frieze and Tefaf are vying for attention in an already crowded year

The two rivals have made record online and private sales as pandemic overturns traditional live auction format

The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year's biggest art stories, from the art market heading online to the fight for racial justice

Christie's end of season Old Masters evening sale in London totals £22.8m, despite last-minute withdrawal of Bernadino Luini's Nativity

The pandemic has forced a resolutely analogue trade to go digital. Despite the technical hurdles, the results have surprised even traditionalists

The 17th century painting of a young girl blowing on brazier by the French baroque painter sold at Lempertz in Germany today

Magazine publisher and fair organiser plans to rent the premises on a permanent basis

From Leonardo to Bacon, take your pick from a selection of essential texts on leading artists

The work was offered for sale at £1.5m to £2.5m in 2019 but US collector Bill Middendorf has decided to give it to the Belgian city

The latest Hiscox Online Art Trade Report found that online only art sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips more than tripled at $597m

Goodman Gallery's Liza Essers came up with the idea in lockdown and plans an online selling event, called Veza, using auction technology in February

The pandemic has ripped apart the industry as we know it this year but it has sparked innovation and conversation like never before

A year marked by wholesale event cancellations and job losses has also seen the art market innovate to keep businesses going.

The portrait of David Webster will return immediately to the opera house before going to the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 for its reopening exhibition

Penitent Magdalene by Salaì, who entered Leonardo's workshop at the age of ten, was estimated at €100,000 to €150,000 and is one of only a handful of known works by the artist

Announcement comes as two of the gallery's presidents in the US are facing allegations of abuse in the workplace

Auction house "vigorously refutes the unfounded allegations" made by the attorney general, who claims the auction house knowingly aided the offshore company Porsal Equities

The artist speaks about her role in judging the Koestler Awards for art made by UK prisoners and the importance of creativity in confinement

Gallery brought in outside counsel to investigate claims against the senior New York-based digital-focused director, who was suspended without pay last month

From new works by the emerging artist Collins Obijiaku in Accra to a pre-election tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Los Angeles

Fine Arts Paris and Art Cologne boldly believed they could run Covid-secure events in November, but both have had to relent to new restrictions

ArtAncient has created a VR experience of the marble bust to enliven the digital version of the now-cancelled New York fair

The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations

The New York-based art dealer will instead launch a project initiative in the city, with no permanent space, starting next autumn

As Lehmann Maupin opens at London's Cromwell Place, its co-founder speaks about systemic change—and addresses recent allegations against the gallery

The 34th edition of the Dutch art fair will run from 31 May to 6 June, two days shorter than normal, while the fate of Tefaf New York Spring hangs in the balance