Rockefeller auction plus leap in private and online sales drive 26% increase

Among those affected are the Hong Kong-based de Sarthe Gallery, which opened in Beijing in 2014, and X Gallery

Christie’s summit weighs up pros and cons of the technology and how it might bring greater transparency to the art market

Despite a group of exhibitors describing Art Bahrain Across Borders as disappointing, royal patron says event will continue

Public hearings on the government’s plans are due to be held in Washington, DC in August

Is the London-based gallery growing its US team to open an exhibition space there?

MCH Group expands burgeoning roster of international art fairs with annual November event

Prices for larger works by the Bristolian street artist could fetch more than £5m

The decision limits the rule to a narrow one-year window of secondary market sales—but what does it mean for the future of droit de suite in the US?

Tacca's Hercules is star of the bronzes, while Carracci's military portrait and Rembrandt's print find favour where Rubens's daughter flounders in £31.1m sale

Hong Kong show features rarely seen archival material, while 23 artists have made new works for an exhibition dedicated to memory in London

No big hitters, but overall quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America buoyed £42.6m auction, with £5.3m record for Canova set in day sale

Veteran Old Master dealer will join the auction house in New York at the end of the summer, months after selling his inventory there

Bronze and marble take centre stage during Old Masters sales week, although Dresden Mars returns home without going on the block at Sotheby's

Sotheby’s withdrew bronze sculpture of Mars from auction at last minute

Maurizio Seracini concurs that the painting sold by Sotheby’s in 2012 is a modern forgery

From a Van Dyck once thought to be by Rubens to William Nicholson's portrait of an actress identified only weeks ago

Ayad says decision to leave was "personal" and plans to launch her own art consultancy

Franco-American scion of art dealing dynasty was accused of hiding art and other property worth hundreds of millions of euros from French authorities

Netherlands-based organisation will oversee events as two-year agreement with US firm expires, but Michael Plummer and Jeff Rabin remain as shareholders

UK capital's heatwave lends a relaxed summer atmosphere to cross-collecting fair, where deals are done at a slower tempo than at contemporary events

Christie’s introduces day sale format and established names give way to new talent

New shows at commercial galleries, from Canova's prank portrait of Giorgione to a feminist take on Pop art

Easel will offer careers information, a mentorship programme and a grant scheme to subsidise low wages in entry level roles

Artist was 80 years old when he began the painting of a former Tate cataloguer

New section at London fair will explore artists who railed against "the idea that genius resided solely in masculinity"

Increasing numbers of young artists are choosing to go it alone

New stakeholder MCH Group brings capital and contacts to an event shaking off its try-hard image

Steven Tananbaum sued the artist and gallery in April for failing to deliver works he bought in 2014

The Romanian painter’s prices have increased 160-fold over the past decade. But who, or what, is behind this steep rise?