Plus, the Albers Foundation plans a Senegal space, and a golden Indian manuscript at the British Library

The art lending market has tripled in size in eight years and is now worth more than $24bn

Women accounted for nearly half of the lots, led by Yayoi Kusama and her early Infinity Net paining which sold for a record $10.5m

Despite a hefty number of lots, the sale flew by and was peppered with memorable moments, auction records and Oliver Barker’s tireless showmanship

As the city council cuts auction regulations, the houses say they will not change their practices, but the prospect of more opaque bidding and guarantees may prove irresistible

Nearly 60% of the works in the auction house’s ‘The Now’ sale are by women artists, though they are still in the minority by value

Amid a crackdown on dissent, and the havoc wreaked by the pandemic, Hong Kong’s galleries have not just survived but thrived, with several new openings

Combined with the $676.1m take from the first sale in November 2021, the 65 works from the Macklowe collection brought in a staggering $922.2m

The new initiative marks an expansion of the gallery’s secondary market business

For decades Russian billionaires were feted for their free spending on the arts. Now, they are officially personae non gratae. But what of the other individuals and regimes with dubious reputations?

On a night when many works outpaced expectations in Christie's New York saleroom, Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack” sold for more than 76 times its high estimate

Lost Wax, now valued between $10m and $20m, was stored in a private vault for four decades

Sale profits will go towards three non-profits supporting women and children worldwide

Artists and dealers have donated works to the online auction raising money for the International Rescue Committee in Ukraine

Plus, a rediscovered Titian and a reliquary sculpture from Gabon

The collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann brought in $317.8m with fees, making it one of Christie's biggest single-owner sales ever

From industry-wide coalitions to individual initiatives, our correspondent Louisa Buck looks at how the art industry is responding to our climate and ecological crisis

The fair, always a destination for discovering artists—be they young and emerging or older and overlooked—features several presentations foregrounding underappreciated photographers

By focusing on art from across history, visitors are able to see how works from different periods can inform and encourage new dialogues

The New Art Dealers Alliance's fair returns to New York with a massive line-up of 120 exhibitors taking over Pier 36

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

But firms say they will continue to operate policies and practices that promote transparency

The Louvre has two-and-a-half years to buy the record-breaking €24m painting

Britain’s share of the global market is at its lowest in a decade and art imports have plummeted. Without government action, experts say, the fallout from Brexit could devastate the industry

The new week-long alignment starts the spring art season with a bang, including the returns of the Independent, Nada New York, Tefaf New York and the Future Art Fair

Of course Sunflowers is included, along with some surprises—and another on the way

Victims of NFT thefts are now likely to have greater protection in the UK—though other jurisdictions are lagging behind

Almost all of Steve Shovlar’s clients are based in Europe—but added taxes and red tape are putting them off

For centuries, it was thought that none of her paintings survived—now a new discovery is on show at Colnaghi Gallery

'Wilderness' breaks conceptual boundaries by leading its viewer into a multi-layered allegory, questioning what it means to exist on this planet as we are enveloped by the digital realm