The Leonardo and Banksy auction spectacles suggested a future in which marketing triumphs. But was it ever thus?

From new exhibitor regulations at Art Basel in Miami Beach to questions over insurance and taxes

With at least 19 such events taking place during Art Basel in Miami Beach this year, have we reached "peak fair"?

Galleries at the fair are giving lesser-known deceased artists the credit they deserve

Christie's and Sotheby's sell near identical Van Dyck portraits of Princess Mary, and new records are set for Frans Hals and a jolly Judith Leyster

From conservation and insurance to customs and tax issues, the complications of keeping art on boats

The rapid growth in the number of loan providers, from private banks to specialist lenders, could transform the art market’s relationship with the financial markets

Fifteen years on since we first reported from Art Basel in Miami Beach, art as an investment has taken a new form

The late pianist’s 1981 annotated score of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is the first of his manuscripts to come to market

Former deal-maker, who joined the auction house in 2016 with the acquisition of Art Agency, Partners, will leave on 31 December

Our pick of highlights from December's auctions

The Carlton Gallery of San Diego and a nearby warehouse had hundreds of pieces

Tis the season for Old Masters: here are three works to seek out, from a mythological marriage portrait to Annibale Carracci's sketch on an old account book

Gaurav Bhatia is co-operating in "formal enquiry" ahead of auction house’s inaugural sale in Mumbai today

The firm's third gallery will oversee its Shanghai office as well as representatives in Taiwan and Korea

For Frieze Projects, artists including Barbara Kruger and Paul McCarthy will create site-specific works within Paramount Pictures Studios's fake New York city

Under president Xi Jinping's increasingly stringent regime, galleries must negotiate a slow and capricious approval process to show works of art

A painting of the University of Toronto lab where he co-discovered insulin goes for ten times its high estimate in Toronto

Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions

The process of art attribution has come under attack, with forgery scandals rampant

The auction houses sell more than 80% of works priced over $1m at auction—can an underdog ever wrestle market share away from them?

Auction house is yet to announce a successor, while Outred says he is taking time out to consider offers

Native American official calls planned auction of the items “unconscionable”

Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe

Heinrich von Spreti will serve as interim managing director until a replacement is found

The young art fair re-opened in a new San Juan venue after Hurricane Maria damage

A monumental painting of the American West by Emanuel Leutze breaks records while works by Rockwell and Hopper flop

His business Mayfair Fine Art went into administration earlier this year following FBI sting operation

Now painting under his own name, Beltracchi's works are part of a selling exhibition currently touring Europe

The auction houses' bottom lines suffered from unsold lots, continuing a trend of top-lot discernment during New York’s fall sales