Court documents from the ongoing Inigo Philbrick fraud saga reveal that the secretive art market and the sheer attractiveness of its lifestyle will always suck the punters in

Georgina Adam and Mark Hollingsworth investigate a troubling case of serial reattributions, showing how easily scholarly “opinion” translates into financial fact

While Seoul is now the main contender to take Hong Kong's prime position, Tokyo and Taipei also present attractive prospects for the art trade

Imelda Marcos is just one of a series of despots with appalling taste

Fairs haemorrhaged exhibitors and visitors during the pandemic—the events will need to find a new way forward

From the $200m Warhol Marilyn at Christie's to the second part of the Macklowe sale at Sotheby’s, the May auctions in New York will be bigger than ever—against the odds

The firm bags a second Scandinavian auction house as sector consolidation continues

Just two months after buying the Nordic firm Bukowskis, the private-equity-owned auction house is bolstering its presence across the Pond

Are the digitally produced copies of museum works sold as NFTs for six-figure sums simply very expensive digital posters?

Fiac's eviction from the Grand Palais came as a shock to the French gallery scene—what was behind the move?

Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco

Plus, who will be the art market’s winners and losers?

The private-equity-owned auction house's acquisition of the Swedish firm is a first move in its bid to extend its global network

Museums, curators and art professionals endorse traditional art, but who will be the gatekeepers for the online world?

The past year will mostly be remembered for the ongoing social and economic convulsions caused by Covid-19. But in the art trade, the old world order was being demolished

Prayer was one of five paintings by the Chinese artist “entrusted by an important institution” to the state-owned Poly Auction

An attorney in the Inigo Philbrick fraud case described the trade as completely rotten, I disagree

Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

The real-estate tycoon, a key patron of Zeng, has not been seen since she was "disappeared"—the painting, Prayer, is now described by Poly auctions as "entrusted by an important institution"

Blau purchased the self-portrait by Ottone Rosai at auction last December, but but it was subject to a compulsory purchase by the Italian state and given to the Florence museum

Artpass ID has been created by Dutch tech entrepreneurs David Dehaeck and Nathalie Haveman, and has Rakhi Talwar, former global compliance head at Christie’s, on the team

Will the wave of young Asians buying hot young artists also wash into the higher-priced, blue-chip artists on offer in New York, or has older art lost its charm?

Asian collectors were behind much of the high bidding for hot emerging artists including Jadé Fadojutimi, Ewa Juszkiewicz and Flora Yukhnovich

A previous painting called Girl with Balloon was shredded live at a Sotheby's auction three years ago, the resulting work, Love is in the Bin, has now sold

What galleries, collectors and artists can do to help reduce the carbon footprint of buying art

All eyes will be on the high-value Hong Kong sales this weekend

Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum

The institution has partnered with French start-up LaCollection to auction the non-fungible tokens, coinciding with its exhibition of the Japanese artist's work

In this adapted excerpt from her new book, The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum, Georgina Adam examines the motivations of collectors who founded their own art spaces

Art Basel has lent expertise to Art Week Tokyo, but does this indicate further involvement?