Art market
Against the odds, mid-sized galleries expand into New York
Dealers Anat Ebgi and Candice Madey are growing even when many observers expect galleries in their tiers to stay cautious
How will New York’s auctions perform? London’s Frieze Week evening sales offer hints
Results from London’s premier autumn auctions suggest price now matters as much as prestige
'Where the museum and the market blend': third edition of Art Week Tokyo attempts a more holistic way to measure success
Some 50 galleries and institutions participated this year in the Art Basel-backed event
The legacy banking foundation buying up works at Artissima for Turin’s major museums
Fondazione Arte CRT’s new chief wants to bring art to the masses via public art programmes
Cimabue ‘kitchen’ painting placed under export ban ends up at the Louvre
The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted
What makes a masterpiece? It depends who is selling…
Traditionally reserved for an artist’s greatest works, the term “masterpiece” now appears routinely in auction catalogues, and may just mean a work is good, novel—or expensive
A step backwards for women and an ‘increasingly thin’ top end: five key takeaways from the latest Art Basel/UBS collector survey
We speak to the report’s author, Clare McAndrew, about its findings
Christie’s to auction Pechstein painting after settlement reached with heir
Hilda Graetz sold 'Still Life With a Cup' to fund her new life in South Africa after her art dealer father died in a concentration camp
‘We can feel instability’: Italian dealers weigh up the market at Artissima in Turin
Sales were brisk at the VIP preview of the fair's 30th edition, but "jitters" can be felt against an uncertain geopolitical backdrop
Five superlative presentations to seek out at The ADAA Art Show
From the Most Monumental to the Best Re-appraisal, a quintet of standouts not to be missed at the Art Dealers Association of America's annual fair
Consumer culture art: Sylvie Fleury talks brands, cars and irreverent Minimalism
The Swiss artist is celebrating a 30-year career at Sprüth Magers in London
‘Accelerator’ Artissima marks its 30th anniversary
Italy’s leading contemporary art fair embraces its ‘start-up’ ethos
Scheme to sell fractions of Banksy’s Valentine’s Day Mascara could be illegal, lawyer says
Online company managing the Margate mural, intended as a comment on domestic abuse, has already sold more than £250,000 in shares
Can Taipei's art scene get better co-ordinated?
At the latest edition of Art Taipei fair, a concerted effort to galvanise the island's art scene like its regional neighbours could be felt
Prints and multiples may finally be ready for the market spotlight—it only took a few hundred years of confusion
The latest edition of the IFPDA Print Fair in New York and a slew of moves by mega-galleries look set to reshape this long-overlooked category
Dmitry Rybolovlev’s former attorney, France's justice minister Eric Dupont-Moretti, faces trial next month
The former defence attorney is accused of using his position to settle scores, including against a judge who investigated the Russian oligarch in Monaco.
Long-unseen Basquiat self-portrait could reach $60m at Sotheby’s New York
"Self Portrait as a Heel (Part Two)" (1982) hasn’t been displayed in public since its last appearance at auction, in 1999
Christie’s brokers restitution settlement with heirs of art dealer and Swiss museum to offer $35m Cézanne at auction next month
Fruits et pot de gingembre, one of three Cézanne paintings included in the sale, was found to have been sold under duress after the Nazis took power in Germany
Christie’s longtime global president Jussi Pylkkänen is stepping down
After nearly 40 years at the auction house, Pylkkänen will work as an independent art adviser
Auction houses use lucrative tools to prop up the art market—could they become victims of their own success?
Shielding art prices from organic market conditions doesn't always pay off
Mendes Wood DM’s new Paris space boosts the Brazilian-founded gallery’s position within a global market
The gallery's fourth location across three continents has opened on the Place des Vosges in the Marais district
Paris+: is the French capital still on the rise as a cultural hub?
Plus, Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Gallery in London and Marie Laurencin's 'La femme-cheval'
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair expands its reach into Hong Kong
Organisers have announced a series of selling exhibitions at Christie's Hong Kong in March next year
'More Americans than at Frieze': sophomore edition of Art Basel's Paris+ fair opens to packed aisles and punchy sales
Major deals suggest a shift in power between Paris and London, though some attendees noted an aesthetic conservatism in the French fair's offerings
'The city is more open than before—it's bearing fruit': Paris+ by Art Basel director Clément Delépine on the future of art as a lifestyle
The fair's sophomore edition brings together 154 leading galleries at the Grand Palais Éphémère
Alicja Kwade joins Pace Gallery—and leaves embattled dealer Johann König after 15 years
Pace will feature a work by the Berlin-based sculptor at Paris + and stage a solo show of her work in Los Angeles in 2024
How to get started as an art collector
Art is not just for the mega-rich: there are ways to buy good-quality works on a modest budget
Atlanta’s art scene grapples with changes from within and elsewhere
On the heels of the second Atlanta Art Week and news of a fair launching in 2024, the city’s dealers and power brokers reflect on all the work they have done, and how much remains