Asian bidders set the pace again as several works sell for ten times their lower estimate at the auction house's 20th century and contemporary art evening sale. But are these prices sustainable?

As British painters in their 20s and 30s are commanding huge sums for their work, how does the market frenzy affect their career in the longer term?

The first NFT to be sold at auction in Europe sells for £800,000, while collectors compete for emerging women artists, leaving more established names on the shelf

Led by Yuki Terase and Amy Cappellazzo, the company aims to have firm footing in both Western and Asian markets.

Western liberal democracies have long called the shots when deciding what is “good” art. But that could be about to change

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

Currently the executive director of Hyundai gallery, Lee says there is a “long history of collecting culture” in the South Korean capital

With Frieze preparing a new Seoul fair, and a growing roster of galleries, the city could steal Hong Kong’s crown

Twenty galleries from Africa are among 47 exhibitors at the fair in London this week, with some taking advantage of the UK's newly relaxed pandemic travel rules

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

The auction house—which estimates the painting at $30m—helped broker a deal between the seller and the descendants of two Jewish families who had it in the Nazi era

As work heads back to auction at Sotheby's, the provenance of the street artist’s Girl with Balloon is being questioned

Buying a work and donating another to a museum sounds like a win-win—but who really benefits?

Some European gallerists say they may not participate in future London fairs because of how "extremely complicated" it has become

The Norwegian collector tells us what he has bought and why

The 850 items, spanning six centuries, is being offered by the booksellers Peter Harrington

Millennial buyers boosted sales for Western artists, whose works accounted for $114m out of $185m

The London gallery, now run by Martin Clist and Charis Tyndall, is marking five decades with an exhibition of Greek black glaze pottery opening this week

When the fair went online-only during the pandemic last year, a planned section dedicated to queer and non-binary artists was cancelled

The conviction of the father-and-son duo, Des and Gary Pickersgill, for the thefts of around £1.7m from an elderly widow's home, brings renewed focus on the threat of antique “knockers”

The information sharing community hopes to launch with 300 members and has been founded by a group of galleries including Sadie Coles, Blum & Poe, Stevenson and Carlos/Ishikawa

14 galleries are taking part in the three month pop up

No.9 Cork Street, which will provide opportunities for pop-up exhibitions, opens as the celebrated Mayfair gallery hub gains a new lease of life

Auction house will sell the painting in January and is dubbing it "The defining masterpiece of Botticelli's late career". But what exactly does that mean?

The new event was founded by the team behind Shanghai's 021 fair

With strict Covid-19 protocols in place, galleries have worked hard to come up with new ways of exhibiting at the London fairs this year

The 1982 portrait, made using Warhol's own urine, will be offered in New York in November, with an estimate in excess of $20m

Maria Varnava, the founder of the London gallery which specialises in artists from Africa and the diaspora, on opening a gallery on the continent where she grew up and why she is wary of speculators

Limna valued a painting by Conny Maier at a third of the ticket price

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

Amir Soleymani, who has had his Nifty account and assets frozen, has accused the platform of changing its terms of sale

A luxuriant still-life painting of gladioli flowers should sell for over $10m

Attorney general claims the auction house created and used tax exemption certificates that falsely presented the buyer as an art dealer in order to dodge payments. Sotheby's says it will continue to contest the case

As a US court issues a decision on the dispute between the Andy Warhol Foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith, two lawyers explore past case studies in this legally controversial area

From Shenzhen to Shanghai, Hong Kong to Beijing, this autumn is awash with events despite border closures and long quarantines

US Treasury Department issues a call for input on forthcoming regulation that aims to counter money laundering

Exhibition of work from the Pre-Columbian age to mid-century Modern paintings, extended to 22 October

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

The design fair has launched a new partnership in Doha

ArtOfficial, developed with help from Gary Vaynerchuk, "aims to broaden the experience of digital art" and make its purchase more accessible and transparent

Plus, Art Basel: are the buyers back? And Mary Beard on images of power

Despite the success of the fair's first post-pandemic edition, galleries are weighing up the future

Outside the Messeplatz, the Scandinavian duo have installed a car with a tender surprise inside

Gertrude aims to make the art market more accessible and evenly distributed

Founded by gallerists and lawyers, the venture will provide estate-planning advice—for a fee—to artists and their families

Ambassadors from eight countries—Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Peru—whose heritage was included in the sale launched a united front against it, with calls for Unesco to intervene

Asian buyers are now the biggest spenders at international auctions and these digitally-native collectors are happy to splurge online

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

I've learned the new political lessons about art shipping the hard way—so you don't have to

The fair may be smaller than usual this year but Jennifer Roberts says she has never known the collectible design market to be in such rude health

The latest UBS Art Basel report finds that top jobs are finally going to women—even at the mega galleries

More than 70 works designated as national heritage are due to be sold in Munich on 21 September

Arranging the event amid a shifting pandemic has been fraught with risk—but it is a risk worth taking, says global director Marc Spiegler

Russian art collector had sued for double dealing and will now appeal decision, while Bouvier plans to launch $1bn countersuit for damages—and write a tell-all book

One of the few Black-owned galleries in London, the space will open with a show of Nirit Takele in October as the gallery takes part in Frieze London for the first time

Historically marginalised groups are being kept out of an industry that expects people to work for free in order to get a foot in the door

US dealer launches new space with giant Alexander Calder sculpture in the Place Vendôme