Carlie Porterfield

Phillips chief executive Stephen Brooks steps down after two years

Brooks, who joined the company in 2021, has left for personal reasons

Hunter Biden’s art dealer questioned by House Oversight Committee

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee questioned New York art dealer Georges Bergès this week about representing US President Joe Biden’s son

Works entering the US public domain in 2024 include an M.C. Escher woodcut and Mickey and Minnie Mouse

With copyrights from 1928 expiring, thousands of creative works are now free to share, copy and build upon

Collector couple opt to sell $43m Picasso trove via London gallery

The works, owned by Pieter and Olga Dreesmann, would usually be consigned to an auction house but instead will be sold by Ward Moretti

Metropolitan Museum's deaccessioned George Washington portrait could bring $2.5m at auction

The Gilbert Stuart painting is one of less than 20 versions of the image known to exist

The Armory Show picks three curators for New York fair's 30th anniversary edition

Eugenie Tsai, Robyn Farrell and Lauren Cornell will lead curatorial initiatives for the fair's 30th anniversary edition

Border Biennial showcases art across the Texas-Mexico border

It’s the first physical iteration of the El Paso and Juárez exhibition in five years, after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 edition

$100,000 in prizes will allow museums, hotels and others to acquire works at Expo Chicago in 2024

The boost in prize funds comes as the first edition of the Chicago fair since its acquisition by Frieze approaches

In pictures: Design Miami makes a stand

Furniture clad in shingles, a tiger with a ceramic coat and a chair made of chains are some of the highlights of Design Miami 2023

Colombian artist Daniel Otero Torres wins French art prize

CPGA-Etant donnés Prize is awarded to artists either from or working in France

Surrealist Leonor Fini makes a Miami Beach splash

Amid surging interest in women Surrealists, Galerie Minsky and Weinstein Gallery devoted their joint stand to the Argentine painter

VIPs keep market afloat at Art Basel in Miami Beach

As Art Basel in Miami Beach opened, sales were swift, though not often at sky-high prices of past years

Twenty-five years later, landmark Nazi loot rules still shape restitution fights

The Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, released on 3 December 1998, are non-binding but nevertheless continue to enable the pursuit of justice

‘In Miami, we are quite unique’: Ukrainian gallerists on their new Miami space

Allapattah outpost of Kyiv's Voloshyn Gallery aims to create dialogue between Eastern European, US and Latin American artists

Long-unseen royal portrait by Diego Velázquez could bring $35m at auction

The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's

White Cube will represent Lynne Drexler's archive outside the US

The market for the American painter exploded last year, more than two decades after her death

Art fairsanalysis

Amid a weak economy and political pressures, Artbo nurtures Colombia's nascent contemporary art market

The 19th edition of the Bogotá fair—one of Latin America's most important—has shifted location and date

Sotheby’s $306m The Now and Contemporary sales wrap up a mediocre New York auction season

Both sales persevered through a lukewarm atmosphere to break into the lower reaches of their estimate ranges

Art marketanalysis

Why Les Lalanne are in high demand

Buyers are flocking to nature-inspired works by the French artists François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne

Late American broadcaster Barbara Walters’s collection nets $5m at Bonhams

All of the proceeds from Walters’s art collection—along with her jewellery and home décor—will go toward charitable causes, according to her estate

Christie's 21st century evening sale falls short of expectations, opening New York's autumn auction cycle on uneasy note

Several 'wet paint' works soared while multiple blue-chip lots underperformed, defying conventional market wisdom

Five superlative presentations to seek out at The ADAA Art Show

From the Most Monumental to the Best Re-appraisal, a quintet of standouts not to be missed at the Art Dealers Association of America's annual fair

From a prehistoric ivory head to a painting once owned by Barbara Walters: our pick of November’s auctions and fairs

Plus, an expressive Fragonard and an Ed Ruscha text work from the Emily Fisher Landau collection

Judge dismisses most of artists’ copyright lawsuit against AI image generators

The artists have indicated they will amend their complaints and continue the legal battle against what they say is unfair use of their work by artificial intelligence image generators

Long-unseen Basquiat self-portrait could reach $60m at Sotheby’s New York

"Self Portrait as a Heel (Part Two)" (1982) hasn’t been displayed in public since its last appearance at auction, in 1999

Christie’s longtime global president Jussi Pylkkänen is stepping down

After nearly 40 years at the auction house, Pylkkänen will work as an independent art adviser

Christie’s brings in a solid £96.5m across back-to-back Frieze Week evening auctions in London

The evening kicked off with a sale of 20th- and 21st-century art, followed by works from the collection of the late businessman Sam Josefowitz

Balthus painting deaccessioned by the Art Institute of Chicago could bring as much as $18m at auction

"La Patience" (1948), which was one of two Balthus paintings in the museum’s collection, will go up for auction at Sotheby’s New York in November