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Artist pairings have grown in popularity for this year's edition of the fair at the Grand Palais
Sotheby's directors speak out for the first time since Girl With Balloon was half shredded at auction
More than 20 galleries will participate in the inaugural LES Art Week, launching 17 October
Modernist works from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be offered in New York in November
Pair of portraits by Frans Hals expected to lead two-day sale of collection of Dutch entrepreneur, who was advised by the dealer Robert Noortman
Auction house sold the painting by Emma Sandys for £62,500 earlier this year, but now 19th century work is caught up in a legal battle
Andy Hei says tax advantages and broad Asian clientele help keep city's edge of Mainland China—but he is not deterred from holding Beijing fair this month
Now being sold by a London-based collector at Christie's New York, the work will probably go to Japan or China
Estimated at $300m, the sale of American Modernist masterpieces will be digitally encrypted by the blockchain startup Artory
Girl With Balloon canvas ‘self-destructed’ live at Sotheby’s last week in one of the most publicised stunts in auction history
Middle Eastern and South Asian works owned by embattled Dubai-based private equity firm carry much lower estimates than prices paid a decade ago
Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose
The pioneering New York dealer says the art market is a "different world” to when she launched her gallery
Just when we thought Frieze week was all over, twists and turns provide high drama at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale on Friday night
We speak to the director of Paris's Applicat-Prazan gallery about dealers in denial and the pleasures of Pink Floyd
Brexit and Trump's trade war with China are affecting the mood of buyers
Girl with a Balloon (2006) had just hammered at £860,000
Francis Bacon's lighter depiction of George Dyer leads auction at £17.5m, with strong prices for Hurvin Anderson, Bridget Riley and Albert Oehlen
The gallery gene does not normally survive beyond one generation, so how can contemporary art galleries survive their founders and keep their edge?
We talk to the art market specialist Melanie Gerlis about the fair, to Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson about their shows, Massimiliano Gioni about the New Museum’s video-art pop-up in London—and Louisa Buck discusses Frieze's special Social Work section. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Work that challenged male-dominated art world of the 1980s and 1990s on show as UK marks centenary of women's suffrage
A growing number of new investment platforms are touting the concept
Fair focuses on women but market still favours men
The mega-collector’s latest lawsuit, filed in New York, escalates his three-year legal feud with Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier
From Kerry James Marshall's all-new paintings in London to Zoe Leonard's decade-long photo series in Los Angeles, these are the commercial gallery shows to see
South African artists are enjoying a growth in overseas interest, as seen in London this month
Our pick from this week's fairs and auctions
