Carlie Porterfield
Wool you look at that: rare set of François-Xavier Lalanne sheep net $1.3m at Bonhams New York
Buyers flocked to Lalanne’s famous sheep and helped ramp prices up past the auction house's estimates
German restitution commission recommends Bavarian bank return Kandinsky painting to heirs of former Jewish owners
Kandinsky’s "A Colorful Life" (1907), which had belonged to collectors Emanuel and Hedwig Lewenstein, was sold in a 1940 Amsterdam auction
MFA Boston settles ownership dispute with Jewish dealers’ heirs over a painting Hitler wanted for his Führermuseum
"Customers Conversing in a Tavern" (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade is up on display after a six years of research and negotiations
New York fair Portal will not return to Governors Island after clash with trust over event space
Representatives for The Trust for Governors Island said they could not accommodate the fair’s requests amid surging demand for exhibition space on the island.
Wildfire smoke in New York shuts down art world events
Hazardous air blowing smoke into the city from fires in Canada pressed cultural institutions and art spaces to close or postpone events
Starfish brooch designed by Salvador Dalí sells for nearly $1m at Christie’s
The brooch once belonged to socialite Rebekah Harkness, the subject of a Taylor Swift song
Dealer Robert Mnuchin and his daughter opened a restaurant on New York's Shelter Island
The blue-chip art dealer and his daughter Valerie Mnuchin have opened Léon 1909, serving French and Italian dishes
186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s 100th birthday
Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Sotheby’s will pay $100m for the Whitney Museum’s Marcel Breuer building
The auction house expects to move into the Madison Avenue building in 2025, vacating its current York Avenue headquarters
French actor Alain Delon’s art collection heads to auction
"The Leopard" star’s collection could bring in as much as €5m at Bonhams in Paris
Palm Beach art dealer sentenced to over two years in prison for blue-chip art fraud scheme
Victims spent “tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars” on counterfeit art sold by the dealer, according to the US Department of Justice
Propelled by Marie Antoinette's poodle, mid-season Old Masters auctions in New York fetch nearly $13m
Specialists at Christie’s and Sotheby’s dismissed concerns about a decline in the Old Masters market
Scoop: ice cream company launching Keith Haring flavour for Pride Month
Van Leeuwen's new "passion fruit berry pop" flavour was inspired by the late artist’s colourful work, and some proceeds from sales will go to LGBTQ+ causes in New York
Two important collections of Chinese art coming to Christie's New York during next Asia Week sales
Sales of the ancient Chinese sculptures and jade carvings are expected to collectively fetch nearly $10m in September
Ortuzar Projects will triple its gallery space in Tribeca
The new 10,000 sq. ft space is next-door to the gallery’s original location in New York's fastest-growing neighbourhood for art
Nigerian artists stand out at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in New York
Twenty-six stands span the four floors at the fair’s new Harlem space
Phillips scores $69.5m in New York evening sale, led by Banksy’s take on Basquiat
A painting by Noah Davis reached more than nine times its low estimate after a 12-minute bidding war
Is Frieze New York well placed to jolt an iffy art market?
Dealers hope the fair will create some momentum during a sluggish season
Christie’s pulls off a safe 21st-century evening sale in New York, powered largely by a $58m Basquiat
While a handful of lots—including new records for Diane Arbus and Simone Leigh—created a buzz in saleroom, bids felt reined in amid economic uncertainty
At Tefaf New York, dealers spotlight work by women
Gallerists at the fair say more collectors are invested in greater gender diversity among their holdings and are keen to invest in art by women
Stephen Friedman opening New York location in Tribeca
It’s the latest in a long line of galleries to open in the upscale New York neighbourhood
Photographs from Madonna’s Sex book go to auction for the first time
Proceeds from prints that were first published in the bestselling coffee table book will go toward the singer’s Malawi non-profit
Auction houses anticipate $2.2bn from New York spring sales despite cooling market
Demand for ultra contemporary works may have eased but there is little sign of a sales slump, say the New York firms
Officials in Mexico call on Dutch auction house to halt sale of pre-Columbian artefacts
Some 30 objects in an auction this week are protected by Mexico’s cultural heritage laws, authorities there say
KAWS wins nearly $1m in damages in counterfeit lawsuit
Artist Brian Donnelly first filed the lawsuit against Dylan Joy An Leong Yi Zhi in 2021
The Armory Show lines up more than 225 galleries for fair’s third year at sprawling Javits Center
The fair has grown to be among the largest in the world since it began as a hotel fair in 1994
Rare Gustav Klimt lake landscape to make auction debut in New York
The painting is estimated to sell for around $45m next month at Sotheby's
Dallas Art Fair gets a boost from Texas’s resilient economy and surging population
Despite the fair’s more sedate, distinctly Southern pace, local and international dealers reported plenty of sales during the VIP preview
Dallas Museum of Art acquires 12 works at Dallas Art Fair with annual gift
The museum spent $100,000 to bolster its collection thanks to funding from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation
Battle of the Basquiats: Christie’s and Sotheby’s both have big, eight-figure paintings lined up for marquee spring sales
'El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)' and 'Now’s the Time' are estimated to sell for $45m at Christie’s and $30m at Sotheby’s, respectively