The auction of art, antiques and works of art was cancelled an hour after its supposed start time following private deal

The burgeoning platform for emerging artists includes a 53-dealer fair, special projects, awards and a section for collectives with a conscience

Event aims to become the Mediterranean’s premier art fair, against stiff competition

The work was bought by a Baton Rouge family for about $120 while travelling in London in 1958, the Wall Street Journal reports

Across Boundaries is an exhibition of around 100 works of Lebanese photography from 30 collections

The Italian state has a permanent right to confiscate illegally exported work

Auction houses and art dealers express ‘relief’ even as the US-China trade war escalates

His death comes just weeks after the opening of the agency's new gallery in Beverly Hills, designed by the artist Ai Weiwei

Our pick from this week's auctions and fairs

Stringent cultural heritage laws and bureaucracy are making consignments much harder to find

Our pick of three works for sale at the art fair's 30th edition

Christie's to sell $70m painting once pledged to the Seattle Art Museum

The auction house hopes the works will surpass previous records by several million

Plans to lend the Abraaj Group Art Prize collection to the Jameel Art Centre are also on hold

Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) could become the most valuable work by a living artist sold at auction

Denver Art Museum's exhibition of the Old Master's prints looks at how he intentionally made “rarities” for his collectors

Salma Hayek, Tobey Maguire and Serena Williams are among those on the fair’s host committee, while Gagosian, Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth and Ropac will exhibit

Freya Simms speaks ahead of the tenth Lapada Art & Antiques Fair in London

One stand is closed down in a vetting crackdown at the French art fair, which organisers say can return to its former glory if "dealers would stop bickering"

New exhibitions at commercial galleries, from Joan Mitchell's last show at Cheim & Read, to Francesca Woodman's haunting photographs in Venice

"Art fairs and auction houses are for beginner collectors—the Russian version of eBay is the big league!"

Our pick from this week's auctions and exhibitions

"Blockchain participants have had little guidance from regulators as to how they plan to shape the law so as to protect against criminal activity"

The technology offers the promise of a world in which a work of art’s provenance is held on a single database—if it lives up to the hype

After waves of closures, the pricey West Side art district sees a frenzy of growth this fall

Moscow contemporary art fair features a Qatari contemporary art exhibition in Russia as the two countries try to foster cultural ties

Do falling exhibitor and visitor numbers at La Biennale Paris signal the beginning of the end for this once world-class art fair?

The art dealer will pay $3m in restitution to the IRS after falsifying returns to hide her use of gallery profits to upgrade her Manhattan home

As with Art Basel, the aim is for larger dealers to subsidise smaller galleries, with plans to roll out similar models in London and New York

In September 2008, Damien Hirst sold £111m of art as Lehman Brothers collapsed, triggering a financial crisis. A decade on, what has changed?