AnalysisCommercial galleries
As galleries begin to re-open, dealerships that survived the Spanish Flu reflect on art sales in the age of pandemics
While some cultivated key clients like the Kennedys and Fords, others relied on close communication even under socially distanced circumstances
AnalysisOutsider art
Outsider art pulls an 'in' crowd in New York
The city's Americana week saw works by 20th century self-taught artists edging out traditional folk art and antiques thanks to a growing celebrity-studded client base
NewsArt market
Art storage demands flare as California fires rage
Calls for emergency art storage are putting pressure on art shipment and insurance firms
ArchiveArt market
Elaborate, traditional pieces sold well at the latest auctions
Chinese and Russian buyers with a taste for the ornate have added a new layer of bidding and are forcing prices ever higher
ArchiveArt market
Decorative arts market report: The field is booming, fuelled by museum buying and style-hounds
"Sold to the person in the Prada suit"
ArchiveArt market
Decorative arts sales shift to Chicago
New York vies with London for nineteenth- and twentieth-century decorative arts sales, but Chicago is coming on quickly
ArchiveArt market
Post-1935 decorative arts, mass produced at exclusive prices
A survey of the decorative arts market
ArchiveArt market
Influx of new collectors of American paintings boosts market
Even third-rate works are now selling for six figures
NewsDesign
When form plus function equals art
High-profile shows are breaking down the boundaries between designers and artists
PreviewArt market
Private view: must-see gallery shows opening this May
New commercial gallery shows—from a new space in south London to an apartment show in San Gimignano
InterviewArtists
Picasso biographer John Richardson dies, aged 95
We recently spoke to the art historian about his new book focusing on his extraordinary life, his homes and his eclectic personal collection
NewsArt market
New York’s Americana week reveals a generational shift in taste
Sales lag while demand for folk art is on the rise as Millennials move away from a ‘Home Alone’ aesthetic
NewsCommercial galleries
Dealers mix Modern furniture with Old Masters in New York
Nicholas Hall and François Laffanour have paired up on the Upper East Side
NewsArt market
Antiques trade adapts to survive
Dealers downsize or go online as tastes in furniture and collecting change
NewsArt market
In the trade, October 2016
NewsArt market
In the Trade, September 2016
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In the Trade, April 2016
NewsArt market
In the Trade, July/August 2015
ArchiveArt market
Collectors flock to Lalanne sheep, driven by recent exhibition at the Paul Kasmin Gallery
Set of sheep sell for $746,500
ArchiveArt market
2011 Sharjah Biennial artists announced
New organiser discloses record 119 artists from 36 countries will be exhibited
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Bruce Weber: “We had to work fast—and run”
Photographer Bruce Weber has spent seven years recording the plight of Miami’s Haitian community
ArchiveArt market
Sale of Diego Giacometti floor lamp at TEFAF confirms that design is well and truly in vogue
Dealers cite the design section's new position as the reason for this year's exceptional sales, in proximity to contemporary art dealers
ArchiveObituaries
Obituary and tributes: Ernst Beyeler
Art world remembers a great art dealer, collector and museum founder
ArchiveArt market
Forbes family hold sale of 38 Victorian pictures
Brothers raise cash with a few pictures from their extensive collection
ArchiveBasel
Basel satellite fairs beset by management complications in the midst of US dealers shunning Europe
Exhibitors wary of investing in weak market, while community groups oppose Scope tent on public open space
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
Gagosian doubling space in Los Angeles
Meanwhile, Steven Kasher moves in on Gagosian territory
ArchiveCollectors
Collector Richard Driehaus's private museum gets a classical makeover
Who said it was all about modernism?
ArchiveMay 2009
Chicago's industrialist benefactors built the city’s art collections—but can today’s patrons maintain them?
So far the next generation have yet to replicate their parents’ efforts on the same scale
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Chuck Close on how his grandma’s crochet inspired his artistic vision
On the eve of a show at PaceWildenstein in New York, the veteran US artist discusses the importance of the year he spent with his grandmother when he was eleven
ArchiveVideo, film & new media
New Kinetica fair celebrates kinetic and hi-tech art
The event will be held 28 February to 2 March
ArchiveFakes & copies
Difficult timing for autumn fairs in New York as financial crisis hits home
Allegations of “fake” antiques further undermine confidence
ArchiveArt dealers
Paris dealers take on Manhattan as galleries migrate across the pond
“We meet a broader range of collectors here”
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Messe Schweiz, parent company of Art Basel, to run Miami Beach Convention Centre
Critics question their priorities, one city commissioner calling their plan to manage the venue “like the fox in the henhouse”
ArchiveArt Basel
Roman Abramovich keeps spirits high and dealers rely on old favourites: Art Basel 2008
While the known and bankable sold at a steady rate, Abramovich was the name on everybody's lips
ArchiveDesign Miami
Brad Pitt spends $1m on contemporary work at Design Miami/Basel 2008
Design is in vogue, as buyers show appreciation for the everyday turned decorative
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 to boast double the exhibition space
Art Basel owners Messe Schweiz are in pole position to take charge of Miami venue
ArchiveArt market
New York Americana week report: High prices for Colonial, Federal and Native American wares
Collectors seek top antiques in a market with a dwindling supply
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Design Miami plans global expansion
The fair, now backed by Art Basel’s owners, targets China
ArchiveDesign Miami
New Korean buyers responsible for most ostentatious purchases at Design Miami/Basel 2007
As the market becomes more international, Jean Prouvé and the Danish school enjoy a resurgence
ArchiveDesign Miami
Dealers double as patrons: Design Miami/Basel 2007
The dealer-artist relationship becomes more prominent as galleries strive for individuality, while Jean Prouvé's dominance is undeniable
ArchiveArt fairs
Asia Week, New York: Dealers and auction houses report strong sales
There were new buyers and more collectors from India and China, but the art fairs were quieter events
ArchiveTate
Tate woos US patrons with cocktails at 10 Downing Street
Guggenheim director says US institutions cannot compete with such incentives
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Art Basel/Miami Beach 2006 sees the breakdown of the binary between functional and ornamental
There has has been talk of an unusually high proportion of sales, particularly of design pieces
ArchiveAntiques
Going...going...is the traditional antique gallery dying?
Dealers race to sell stock at auction as buying tastes change
ArchiveArt market
Warring New York dealers guilty of tax evasion
Court orders Helen Fioratti and James Sansum to repay huge sums
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
The new domesticity in Contemporary art
Focus is on the decorative arts at Art Basel Miami Beach
ArchiveDecorative arts
SOFA fair, Chicago. Who are the craft collectors?
Many who buy paintings and sculpture are now starting to invest in contemporary decorative arts
ArchiveArt market
Western collectors still paying highest prices for top lots of Asian art
While Chinese sustain the middle market for rare but flashy cinnabar, rhinoceros horn and cloisonné
ArchiveArt market
Appeal over Peter Brant ownership of Warhol
Ms Lindholm has been attempting to regain Warhol's Red Elvis since 2000
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA acquires $25 million Matisse
The plum blossoms painting is one of the artist's last works
ArchiveTate Modern
Tate Modern hopes to expand by half by 2011
The museum has announced an ambitious development project which could cost up to £135 million
ArchiveExhibitions
UBS art goes on show at MoMA
Founder Donald Marron has been instrumental in the acquisition of classic Modern and contemporary art
ArchiveCollectors
Collector Bob Rubin's proves passion for Prouvé in $1 million restoration
The artist’s Maison Tropicale is on show this month at Yale
ArchiveArt market
America votes for giltwood at the International Art and Antiques Show
Decorative arts dealers reported good sales but paintings were harder to shift
ArchiveChristopher Dresser
From flea market to Manhattan penthouse: the revival of Christopher Dresser
Gilbert and George and Mickey Wolfson are among the enthusiastic collectors
ArchiveAntiques fairs
Winter Antiques Fair: “The Academy Award of dealers’ shows”
Exhibitors reported enthusiastic buying as collectors embraced new areas of the market
ArchiveArt dealers
Diary of a New York dealer: Carlton Rochell
Contemporary art collectors are coming to Southeast Asian art. Hollywood’s fascination with Buddhism is also a trigger
ArchiveChicago
Special shows and artists on site made Chicago the capital of the craft market
Prevailing gloom did not deter buying
ArchiveArt fairs
Tough times at the 2002 Armory
Collectors were cautious as economic woes continue
ArchiveArt dealers
Diary of a New York dealer, Hans Kraus, Jr: “The old medium has died and digital has taken over”
Why collectors of 19th-century painting are crossing over into photography
ArchiveArt dealers
A market for baskets: Interview with New York dealer Sebastian Izzard
The difference between Japanese and European taste in the field of Japanese art
ArchiveArt market
Diary of New York art advisors: Nancy A. McClelland and Lars Rachen on trends in the decorative arts market
Sophisticated collectors are crossing over from 19th- and 20th-century painting
ArchiveArt fairs
Americana in high favour at Philadelphia Antiques Show 2002
The event has become the main venue for collectors in this field
ArchiveArt market
How sothebys.com is cutting costs
The loss-making site is shutting down its UK offices
ArchiveArt fairs
Fifth annual artpalmbeach shows Florida as glass capital of the US
Collectors are buying for sun-drenched second homes
ArchiveSotheby's
Sotheby’s ends auctions in Chicago
Twentieth-century decorative arts market may shift to local firms and Phillips
ArchiveTextiles
Antique textiles: A boom from the loom as museum buying and new collectors hike prices
As other items become inaccessible to some collectors, many in the middle market have turned to textiles
ArchiveArt fairs
Three new events for New York
Just as social observers are deploring the hectic roster of arts fairs, three new events have been added to the already crowded calendar.
ArchiveArt market
Architecture is taking centre stage in the art world, and the market for architectural drawings is heating up
Few dealers, scarce material, but a growing audience
ArchiveArt fairs
High end sales as glassware proves a winner at fourth SOFA fair
SOFA fair report '01
ArchiveMay 2001
Interview with economist William N. Goetzmann: 'The financial and the art markets do not crash at the same time'
In 2001, the Yale professor attributed the one- to two-year lag between crashes to the time it takes to liquidate assets
ArchiveAsian art
Asia Week in the galleries
From Shang to the present, Asian art in all its diversity
ArchiveArt fairs
New York Ceramics Fair 2001 hits upon winning formula as dealers elated by sales
Collectors defy mini-blizzard
ArchiveArt market
Art Deco furniture rules the auction houses and a new sales record was set as the style replaces 18th-century furniture
Prices are rocketing, but perhaps not everything is right in this field with many experts questioning the authenticity of some pieces
ArchiveArt dealers
Diary of a dealer: veteran Asian art dealer Robert H. Ellsworth states “provenance is worth one-third of the price”
The market is driven by supply and demand and not by collectors’ taste, says veteran dealer in Asian art
ArchiveArt market
Rembrandt’s Venetian influence: Hanging around New York, a monthly guide by Brook S. Mason.
And bounty of decorative arts including Chinese porcelain and Mendini furniture
ArchiveArt dealers
Diary of a US dealer: Fred Hill of Berry-Hill. European museums turn to American landscape
And a wider range of stock attracts more collectors
ArchiveCollectors
Collector profiles: Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Scanu of New York and Madame M. of Paris. The modern charm of Art Deco
These collectors agree that the market has risen so much as to make buying almost impossible
ArchiveArt market
Diary of a US dealer: Douglas Heller. Crafting a market for contemporary glass
As the SOFA fair of contemporary decorative arts comes to New York, we talk to a leading dealer in the field
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Interview with director Glenn Lowry: Commercial company to be launched by the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery
Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA, discusses the new internet alliance that marks the first time museums will use their expertise and reputations for online commercial ventures
ArchiveKnoedler
Diary of US dealer Ann Freedman: No websales, please; only the personal touch
The president and executive director of Knoedler’s encourages collectors to become museum patrons and supplies major museums with works of art
ArchiveArt dealers
Hanging around New York: Collector-patrons for Knoedler’s 159-year history
Picasso for the blind at Wildenstein and a bevy of Latin American paintings exhibitions
ArchiveArt dealers
Diary of a dealer: the American Modernism dealer, Hollis Taggart
Rising prices and increasing prestige for certain artists as collectors awake to Modernism’s sleepers
ArchiveInternational Art and Antique Dealer Show
David Lester’s Palm Beach International Art & Antique Fair is already proving to be a booming show
Twenty-two new dealers participating from Pelham Galleries to Helly Nahmad
ArchiveDigital Age
What's on in New York: Tackling the digital age
Shows include the first retrospective of images by Hiro at Pace/MacGill and Todd Eberle's computer portraits
ArchiveArt market
The market for antiquities is growing, unfazed by protesters
As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York
ArchiveArt market
Ritzy auction prices for homespun objects: American Arts and Crafts design receives boost in popularity from Barbra Streisand
“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts
ArchiveCommercial galleries
What's on in New York: Degas, Dow and Diego
Also on show are pastel landscapes at Artemis and high-tech furniture at Barry Friedman
ArchiveArt market
Fair report: International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show, New York. “Haute Modernism” and antiquities at the forefront
With American classical furniture and decorative arts in close second place
ArchiveArtist interview
Artist interview with Ruth Duckworth: America's top artist in clay turns 80
She sees herself as a sculptor and rejects any links with Arts and Crafts descendant, Bernard Leach
ArchiveArt market
The taste of the spectacularly wealthy Palm Beach
Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever
ArchiveWinter Antiques Show
New York's Winter Antiques Show offers insight into the collecting trends, prices and the general health of the art market
The show will exhibit colonial and European furniture, girlhood embroidery, Native American pieces, and folk art
ArchiveArt market
Chirac’s Musée de l’Homme raises prices for primitive art
Fetish figures, tribal shields and masks command attention
ArchiveArt market
Contradictory entrails; what does the financial health at present mean for the art market?
Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing
ArchiveArt market
Marketing at MoMA: aim at the young professionals
Elizabeth Addison, head of marketing and communications, uses weekly surveys and focus groups to build brand awareness
ArchiveArt market
First, target your audience: Marketing the Brooklyn Museum of Art
New director, Arnold Lehman, has raised the profile of America’s second largest museum in just one year by advertising
ArchiveArt market
Twentieth-century design sales in the US... Tiffany glass continues to climb
Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings