Carlie Porterfield

Works by Basquiat, Haring and Hockney help Christie's 21st century evening sale net a healthy $106.5m

However, despite assistance from big names, it was emerging artists who were the real stars of the show

Untitled Art fair will expand to Houston in 2025

According to its organisers, this latest addition to the art-market calendar will be a boutique invitational fair

‘The world's most expensive banana’: Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian fetches $6.2m at Sotheby’s New York

The buyer, the collector and crypto investor Justin Sun, immediately vowed to eat the banana

Art marketfeature

Auction houses expect this month's New York sales to bring in as much as $1.6bn

The most valuable lot of the week is a record-breaking Magritte with a third-party guarantee, but the most talked-about is a conceptual still life by Maurizio Cattelan

Painting by the AI robot Ai-Da sells for more than $1m at Sotheby’s

It’s a new record for a work of art created by a robot, the auction house says

The ADAA Art Show spotlights the Houston art scene

The fair's new "Spotlight On..." programme will call attention to a new city each year

Marc Straus is the latest New York dealer to open in Tribeca

The new gallery will open in David Lewis’s former space

Students at School of the Art Institute of Chicago hold walkout in support of Palestine

SAIC students continue to protest the school’s ties to defence contractors

Maurizio Cattelan’s famous duct-taped banana could bring more than $1m at auction

"Comedian" (2019) is one of the most viral (and controversial) works of art of the past decade; Sotheby's is betting it has not lost its a-peel

Painting by AI robot Ai-Da could bring more than $120,000 at Sotheby's

The robotic brainchild of British gallerist Aidan Meller will make her auction debut on Halloween

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President Biden awards National Medal of Arts to artists including Mark Bradford, Carrie Mae Weems and Alex Katz

It's the highest honour awarded by the US federal government to artists in a wide range of disciplines and art patrons

Court pauses eviction of popular New York sculpture garden

Elizabeth Street Garden can stay open for two more weeks as volunteers try to prevent its demolition

Oh La La! aims to spice up Art Basel Paris after its VIP preview days

As part of a rousing new scheme, dozens of exhibitors will unveil notable works only once the fair opens to the general public

Large Ed Ruscha gas station painting could bring more than $50m at Christie's after star turns at Lacma and MoMA

The 1964 painting was a prominent feature in the artist’s recent travelling retrospective

Shake it up: Frieze Masters galleries blur time periods to reflect a shift in market demand

No longer just for antiquities and long-gone artists, more galleries at Frieze Masters are selling Modern and contemporary works—and other dealers are also widening their repertoire

'An inspiration to all of our artists from Africa': Esther Mahlangu enjoys double exposure at 1-54 and Serpentine

The 88-year-old South African artist is the subject of a solo stand with The Melrose Gallery at the Somerset House fair, while a site-specific mural goes on show outside the Serpentine North

'I think things happen for a reason': Maro Itoje, co-founder of Akoje Gallery, on why he's not afraid of missing out

The England rugby player and gallerist discusses having no regrets, and why he's on a mission to raise awareness about Black history

Galleries at Frieze London buoyed by better-than-expected preview day sales

Against a background of a gloomy economic and political outlook, most dealers reported brisk business as the fair opened

‘I’m drawn to artists who are abolitionists, troublemakers, revolutionaries’: AI expert Ebele Okobi on the appeal of a rebellious streak

The chair of the development board at the Museum of West African Art, Nigeria, discusses why she collects works from artists who are “dangerous to empire”

Egyptian princess's sarcophagus brings star quality to Frieze Masters

The sarcophagus, described as the only royal Egyptian example to ever enter the art market, last sold in 2013 for $1m

‘It’s a little bit of a testing period’: inaugural Atlanta Art Fair opens with buzzy VIP turnout

Dealers hope the city’s first art fair will help Atlanta artists build a bigger collector base

Atlanta steps into the art market spotlight

Local dealers and advisors say the third edition of Atlanta Art Week and the inaugural Atlanta Art Fair are bringing attention to the city’s art scene at a critical time

Footloose fraudster Anna Sorokin voted off Dancing with the Stars

While she inspired Inventing Anna on Netflix, Sorokin struggled to reinvent herself as a top-tier dancer during her short stint on the reality competition show

Closuresanalysis

New York gallery closures are leaving artists to fend for themselves

The recent shuttering of multiple city stalwarts, from Marlborough to David Lewis, has forced their former clients to find alternative outlets

Diversityfeature

Meet the grassroots group making the art world more welcoming for Black women

Black Girls in Art Spaces has expanded to more than two dozen chapters across the US and abroad in just two years

Eyelash magnate Sydell Miller’s art collection estimated to bring around $200m at Sotheby’s

The sale's most valuable lot, a water lily painting by Claude Monet, is expected to sell in the region of $60m