The star auctioneer is leaving Christie's after 38 years to share his experience "with a new generation of collectors"

Artex, the latest in a slew of new initiatives, is offering shares in a Francis Bacon triptych for as little as $100—but is it a good investment?

Lavish lifestyles, misplaced confidence and the wish to keep up with billionaire clients can all wreak financial havoc

Cycles in the industry are getting shorter with trends now coming and going within a year

As the Washington Principles turn 25, the complexities of restitution in a global art world have mushroomed—leaving lessons to be learned for institutions, governments and art market players

Yayoi's signature style is currently adorning 400 objects in a collaboration with the French luxury fashion house—but it is not clear how involved she is

The collapse of FTX has not only devastated the crypto world, but also threatened the ethics of “make money, do good”, touted by its founders

A shared client base, product exclusivity and international reach—just some of the reasons why these two brands are perfect bed fellows

Court documents from the ongoing Inigo Philbrick fraud saga reveal that the secretive art market and the sheer attractiveness of its lifestyle will always suck the punters in

While Seoul is now the main contender to take Hong Kong's prime position, Tokyo and Taipei also present attractive prospects for the art trade

Imelda Marcos is just one of a series of despots with appalling taste

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

From the $200m Warhol Marilyn at Christie's to the second part of the Macklowe sale at Sotheby’s, the May auctions in New York will be bigger than ever—against the odds

Are the digitally produced copies of museum works sold as NFTs for six-figure sums simply very expensive digital posters?

Fiac's eviction from the Grand Palais came as a shock to the French gallery scene—what was behind the move?

Museums, curators and art professionals endorse traditional art, but who will be the gatekeepers for the online world?

An attorney in the Inigo Philbrick fraud case described the trade as completely rotten, I disagree

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?

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

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

Banksy, NFTs and Sacha Jafri et al are ripping up the rulebook

Why people are paying millions for digital art all of a sudden

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The French capital seems resurgent, but other elements may intervene

Why are Asians in hot pursuit of art, and what are they buying?

Often described as totally unregulated, the art trade is facing more stringent rules

A flurry of museum pieces is heading to auction, but will there be enough buyers for them?

Our art market editor-at-large looks back on three decades of booming sales and soaring prices, from Middle Eastern emergence to the evolution of auction houses

Dealers who finance deals by taking out loans against art may well find themselves in difficulty because of the Covid-19 pandemic

Performance out, domestically-sized painting in