NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
The tax man cometh: new laws on sales tax pose problems for US art dealers
US Supreme Court decision is causing anxiety among dealers
NewsIvory
$1.3m worth of ivory seized in California—the largest haul since a ban was adopted in the state
The Carlton Gallery of San Diego and a nearby warehouse had hundreds of pieces
BlogLinda on the loose
Everything is black and white: Liam Gillick and Adam Pendleton in friendly competition at Eva Presenhuber
BlogLinda on the loose
Art-induced whiplash at TEFAF New York
A dizzying mix of antique oddities and gems attract browsers to the city's third iteration of the fair
AnalysisFiac
Art world figures at Fiac reveal the main challenges they face today
From fair fatigue to unearthing new talent, gallerists and collectors at the Paris event share their concerns
NewsThree to see
Three shows to see in New York this weekend
Head downtown for Sarah Lucas, a deep-dive into LES galleries and Toyin Ojih Odutola's beguiling portraits
NewsArt market
Galleries on New York's Lower East Side band together to boost foot traffic
More than 20 galleries will participate in the inaugural LES Art Week, launching 17 October
NewsFrieze London 2018
Wasteful art world gets ready to clean up its act
Shipping firms seek to replace single-use crates
InterviewFrieze London 2018
Confessions of a dealer: Franck Prazan
We speak to the director of Paris's Applicat-Prazan gallery about dealers in denial and the pleasures of Pink Floyd
FeatureFrieze London 2018
Contemporary galleries start looking to the next generation
The gallery gene does not normally survive beyond one generation, so how can contemporary art galleries survive their founders and keep their edge?
Podcast
Frieze special: the fair and the top shows, with Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson
We talk to the art market specialist Melanie Gerlis about the fair, to Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson about their shows, Massimiliano Gioni about the New Museum’s video-art pop-up in London—and much more. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsArt market
At Expo Chicago, a ‘slow burn’ of interest from collectors
Exhibitors benefit from the curatorial heft of local art institutions
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Space (and time) shifting at London's Hayward and Matt's Gallery
NewsArt market
Nan Goldin signs up with Marian Goodman Gallery
The photographer and anti-opioid activist will show works at Frieze and Fiac
ReviewExhibitions
An enigma solved: Old Masters and contemporary artists mix together well at David Zwirner
A show co-organised with the dealer Nicholas Hall demonstrates the endlessly exciting possibilities of blending the old and the new
NewsArt market
Max Hetzler defies Brexit uncertainties and opens London gallery
New space on Dover Street will focus on historical exhibitions and two-person shows
NewsArt market
Chinese art and antiquities spared from Trump’s tariffs
Auction houses and art dealers express ‘relief’ even as the US-China trade war escalates
BlogLinda on the loose
Charline von Heyl at Petzel Gallery is the show to beat this season in New York
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Child prodigies: works by schoolchildren up for grabs in silent charity auction at Alison Jacques
BlogLinda on the loose
Beads and art world bigwigs abound at the opening of Lehmann Maupin’s new Chelsea gallery
NewsArt fairs
Brigitte Macron cheers up dealers at a smaller La Biennale Paris
One stand is closed down in a vetting crackdown at the French art fair, which organisers say can return to its former glory if "dealers would stop bickering"
PreviewArt market
Private View: our pick of September gallery shows
New exhibitions at commercial galleries, from Joan Mitchell's last show at Cheim & Read, to Francesca Woodman's haunting photographs in Venice
NewsArt market
New York's Chelsea galleries hope new storefronts will bring new business
After waves of closures, the pricey West Side art district sees a frenzy of growth this fall
NewsArt market
Dealer Mary Boone pleads guilty to $1.6m in tax fraud
The art dealer will pay $3m in restitution to the IRS after falsifying returns to hide her use of gallery profits to upgrade her Manhattan home
NewsCommercial galleries
Artist withdraws work from gallery group show inspired by Peter Sellers brownface film
An op-ed criticising the exhibition for its dismissal of the movie's racist overtones has prompted some reflection
InterviewVideo, film & new media
‘I like the liberation of film’: the photographer and experimental film-maker Duane Michals explains why he prefers moving pictures
The 86-year-old artist is showing three new short films at DC Moore Gallery in New York
NewsArt market
David Zwirner appoints curator-cum-Instagram-influencer as its first online sales director—why?
Elena Soboleva to head up the virtual gallery and expand its collector base as galleries embrace selling art digitally as an 'evolution of the walk-in business'
News#metoo
Poland’s answer to the Guerrilla Girls—the 'bison ladies'—stage protest against Araki exhibition in Warsaw
Japanese artist became embroiled in #Metoo movement over treatment of long-time model
NewsCommercial galleries
Radical performance artist Ulay to show rarely seen works in London exhibition
Marina Abramovic’s ex-partner has signed up with Richard Saltoun gallery
NewsAppointments & departures
Charles Saumarez Smith to leave Royal Academy of Arts to become senior director of Blain Southern
Secretary and chief executive of the London museum says he wanted to go “at a time of obvious strength and success”
NewsArt market
White Cube appoints Warhol expert Eric Shiner artistic director in New York
Is the London-based gallery growing its US team to open an exhibition space there?
NewsArt market
Banksy painting sells for record £1.5m as ‘greatest hits’ show opens at London gallery
Prices for larger works by the Bristolian street artist could fetch more than £5m
NewsArt market
From project space to mega dealer: Jay Jopling celebrates 25 years of White Cube
Hong Kong show features rarely seen archival material, while 23 artists have made new works for an exhibition dedicated to memory in London
PreviewLondon Art Week
Re-discoveries, the Holy Grail of Old Master dealers: we pick out four at London Art Week
From a Van Dyck once thought to be by Rubens to William Nicholson's portrait of an actress identified only weeks ago
NewsArt market
Private View: our pick of July and August gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from Canova's prank portrait of Giorgione to a feminist take on Pop art
NewsCommercial galleries
What to see in Condo New York
The American edition of the international gallery exchange programme brings exhibitors from Cairo, Tokyo and Kolkata
NewsArt market
Have gallery representation and exclusivity had their day?
Increasing numbers of young artists are choosing to go it alone
NewsArt law
Jeff Koons and Larry Gagosian file motion to dismiss collector’s 'impatient' demands for work he did not receive
Steven Tananbaum sued the artist and gallery in April for failing to deliver works he bought in 2014, likening the incident to a Ponzi scheme
ReviewExhibitions
Joaquín Torres-García, mapped and remapped
Acquavella Galleries’ exhibition of the Uruguay-born Modernist is a primer for the uninitiated and a treasury of rarely seen gems
CommentArt Basel 2018
Rapper pays $18.5m for work at auction but the artist gets nothing—is the system in need of reform?
Anny Shaw asks if auction houses and dealers should pay their dues to the artists from whom they profit
NewsArt Basel 2018
Three cheers for Zeng Fanzhi
Hauser & Wirth will host concurrent exhibitions of the Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi this autumn in Zurich, London and Hong Kong
NewsArt market
New York gallerist Tanya Bonakdar to open first space in Los Angeles
The dealer says her artists encouraged the expansion
NewsArt Basel 2018
ShanghArt and Waldburger Wouters to open project space during Art Basel
This will be the first time a major Chinese gallery has opened a space in Europe
ReviewHoward Hodgkin
A great send-off: Howard Hodgkin's extraordinary final paintings go on show at Gagosian
Late artist completed six paintings in five weeks, all of which are included in London gallery exhibition
PreviewArt market
Paris Gallery Weekend is a shot in the arm for city’s under-the-radar gallery scene
The state-backed fifth edition is biggest ever with 44 galleries across five districts
NewsArt market
Jan Fabre explores Belgian identity—and rails against far-right nationalists—at new Galerie Templon show
New space for the Paris dealer consolidates gallery’s position as primary market power in France
NewsObituaries
Chicago dealer Richard Gray has died, aged 89
The gallerist and patron was a key figure in the city’s art scene for more than 50 years
NewsArt fairs
Former exhibitor in dispute with Photo London over stolen Juergen Teller
London dealer Alison Jacques says the photograph was taken from last year's fair and another work was damaged due to temperature fluctuations
NewsArt market
First exhibition on Jean Dubuffet’s fascination with cities to open this summer
Hauser & Wirth show in Zürich includes loans from the Tate, the Stedelijk Museum and the Fondation Dubuffet
Podcast
Podcast episode 31: The $646m Rockefeller sale. Plus: should big galleries subsidise smaller ones?
We drill down into the big numbers from the Post-Impressionist and Modern sale in New York with Georgina Adam, talk to Professor Rachel Pownall about the wider market and look at a small gallery housed in Piccadilly Circus Tube station.
BlogFrieze New York
Artoon by Pablo Helguera, Frieze New York 2018, Issue 2
"In order to bring diversity to our all-white male artist stable, we decided to bring in a few other, slightly more affordable, white male artists."
NewsFrieze New York
US government could regulate art dealers under proposed law
New York law firm warns galleries that legislation could mean new compliance and reporting regime
BlogFrieze New York
Frieze New York Artoon
"It's a participatory conceptual piece consisting in you giving us lots of money for a commissioned art work and agree not to sue me or the artist should we decide not to deliver it."
FeatureFrieze New York
Frieze New York pays tribute to the School of Hudson
The maverick art dealer helped to shape New York’s contemporary art scene by finding and supporting some of today's biggest artists
NewsFrieze New York
‘Robin Hood’ tax at fairs is a start, young dealers at Frieze New York say
Smaller galleries are open to subsidies from larger ones but wider issues would remain
NewsCommercial galleries
New territory for Glenn Ligon with first solo show in Italy
US artist tries new techniques and tackles immigration in Naples exhibition
NewsArt market
Private View: our pick of May gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talent
NewsGallery Weekend Berlin
Art fest: Gallery Weekend Berlin takes over the city
Commercial and non-commercial enterprises combine as the most important event in the German art calendar gets underway
ReviewCommercial galleries
Four must-see shows at Berlin's gallery weekend
From a gallery floor-turned-treadmill at Alexander Levy to Aztec inspiration at Barbara Wien
NewsArt market
How did they do that? Young gallery opens vast new Mayfair space
Despite soaring rents in the area, Unit London will open in former Citibank building on Hanover Square in June
NewsArt market
Private view: our pick of April gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talents
BlogArt market
Gallery's new exhibition model takes over collectors' homes
Instead of exhibiting at Art Cologne, the Basel gallery von Bartha will host a show in Mike Meiré's apartment in the city
NewsArt market
New York's Postmasters gallery, in survival move, solicits pledges via Patreon
"We need more support than I can generate via sales alone", says founder
PreviewExhibitions
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas brings acrobatics and improvised sculptures to New York
The artist is creating a new work and performance at The Kitchen and launching Mexican gallery Kurimanzutto’s US outpost this month
NewsArt market
Still got it: Soho’s naughty spirit draws London’s galleries
Why galleries are moving into the West End district’s red-light zone
NewsMartin Luther King
Harlem gallery performance evokes Martin Luther King Jr’s final moments
Jazz musician Melvin Gibbs remembers the Civil Rights Leader’s death and the impact it had on the African American community at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
NewsArt Basel in Hong Kong 2018
Indian galleries raise their game at Art Basel in Hong Kong
Presence of more dealers at the fair signals a comeback in the country’s art market
PreviewArt Basel in Hong Kong 2018
Spotlight on... H Queen's
We take a closer look at Hong Kong's shiny new gallery hub
InterviewArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
From Beijing to Mayfair: French dealer to open new gallery in London
Specialist Hadrien de Montferrand brings a unique mix of influences to his work
AnalysisArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
How big is the Picasso 'brand' in China?
Sotheby’s tests the waters with first oil painting at auction in Hong Kong
FeatureArt's Most Popular
Ranked: the top ten most popular shows in their categories from around the world
Including Old Masters, Asian, Post-Impressionist and Modern
NewsArt market
Art Basel in Hong Kong welcomes more mainland galleries
Dealers from across Asia are ramping up their presence, and around half of the projects in the Kabinett sector are by Asian artists
CommentArt market
The all-powerful market is sounding the death knell for connoisseurship
Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose
Jane Kallir