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?

Estimates of the potential size of the art market are way off the mark

The Conseil des Ventes Volontaires concludes that China dominates global auctions, accounting for $8.6bn of sales and 35% of the worldwide market

Can reforms to Japan’s onerous tax system allow Tokyo to replace Hong Kong as the leading art trade hub in Asia, as it was during the “bubble period” of the late 1980s?

Plus, London Gallery Weekend and Nina Katchadourian on her adopted grandmother's embroidery

Burlington Arcade has 12 empty units and its owners want art businesses to help fill them

Here are the advantages to staying local in a world of Covid

As the multi-billionaire couple announce they are ending their marriage, we look at some of the art world's bitterest splits

The new breed of art buyers are likely to need administrators, curators and lawyers much like those in the conventional art world

With much-reduced travel and events, the pandemic has been tough on the logistics business and will have lasting effect, Crozier chief says

Dispute with Artemus centred on a multimillion-dollar leaseback arrangement involving Keith Haring and Frank Stella works

A feature-length film, screening next week in France, sheds new light on the political machinations surrounding the world's most controversial painting