Two of the star lots have been consigned by the Greek Cypriot industrialist and collector Dakis Joannou

In our new series Reality Bites, we assess whether the art market's key players are addressing the urgent issues affecting the wider world

Plus, a collection of meteorites, a Belle Époque fob watch and a nude by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita

“Gordon always believed that any collection should involve both the eye and the ear, as did Ann. Yes, you may like how a painting looks, but what is it telling you? Hearing is as important as seeing.”

Public art programme Sites will replace Hors les Murs—the outdoor sculpture event hosted by Fiac—Paris's once-unrivalled contemporary fair

Star lots include one of Picasso’s earliest paintings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and a dynamic De Kooning

Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, exhibitors at the third edition of Georgia's premier commercial art event hoped to dispel the idea that the nation "exists on the periphery of Russia”

The inaugural sale on Christie's3.0 will consist of nine NFTs by the artist and activist Diana Sinclair

Newland was arrested in the UK in February and extradited to the United States in September, where he admitted his role in the $86m scheme for which Inigo Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in prison

With galleries moving in in droves, Tribeca is supplanting Chelsea as the city’s art neighbourhood, but its success may push out the small and mid-size galleries that fostered its vitality

Joint venture announced amid declining sales figures at Chinese auction house

And who were the brave collectors, way ahead of their time?

Fortune Teller hopes to act as a social hub for likeminded collectors to connect to one another

A new work by the artist will be on offer for the first time at Socrates Sculpture Park’s annual benefit, with proceeds going to the park.

The fair will feature 26 first-time exhibitors and over half of the galleries will be from North and South America

Crypto might have crashed, but online-only sales and other digital channels are allowing auction houses to deepen their business beyond the thin market for blue-chip art

Pyotr Pavlensky has been ordered to stand trial in France over leaked sex videos that brought down a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron

Sale marks a significant loss for Bouvier, who paid $70m to build the state-of-the-art facility in 2010

Though most famous for his Impressionist portraits of women and scenes of Parisian café society, Édouard Manet’s portrait of Bob the dog hits all the right notes

Brazil's second-biggest fair is back at full scale and in-person after two years of hybrid editions, with modern and contemporary Brazilian art, plus a solo sector curated by collector Ademar Britto

The long-awaited shift looks set to make the world of NFTs considerably less harmful to the environment

Each of the houses in the growing consortium will keep its identity, but share the back end of the business

The fair’s parent company MCH Group is developing "new digital formats" to support galleries

The coin, a Quarter Shekel valued at $1m, was looted in from Israel in 2002 and had been headed for auction before being recovered by US Homeland Security agents in 2017

Francis Bacon triptych and Renoir still life among works from the collection of CBS founder William S. Paley that have been "under the museum's stewardship" since his death

The Players Foundation says the current financial crisis has forced it to reassess how it manages its assets and ensures its benevolent work is ongoing

“Understandably” no Ukrainian dealers applied to take part in the tenth anniversary edition of the Moscow fair

Founded in 2004, MacDougall's was the first international auction house to have representatives in Moscow and Kyiv

Offered next month for $500,000 to $700,000, the silkscreen canvas work is from the same series as another that was at the centre of $20m lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts