Art market
The oldest Hebrew Bible in existence breaks auction record for a manuscript at Sotheby's
The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994
Is Frieze New York well placed to jolt an iffy art market?
Dealers hope the fair will create some momentum during a sluggish season
Works by Klimt and Magritte lead Sotheby’s stolid Modern art sales in New York
The firm’s Modern art evening sale and single-owner Mo Ostin auction brought in a below-estimate hammer total of $363.9m, or $427m with fees
New York adviser Lisa Schiff reportedly shuts business amid clients’ $2m lawsuit
The outspoken adviser appears to have closed her Tribeca gallery and is unreachable amid accusations that she defrauded collectors of profits from the sale of an Adrian Ghenie painting
Manhattan to the Caribbean: 1-54 New York fair expands with group show in Chelsea
The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair opens largest ever US edition and adds concurrent exhibition of artists with Caribbean roots
Artists paid less than £3 an hour for public art commissions, report finds
The Structurally F–cked survey looked at artists' pay and conditions, and found a "culture of low fees, unpaid labour, and systemic exploitation"
Christie’s pulls off a safe 21st-century evening sale in New York, powered largely by a $58m Basquiat
While a handful of lots—including new records for Diane Arbus and Simone Leigh—created a buzz in saleroom, bids felt reined in amid economic uncertainty
From the world’s most expensive Bible to Andy Warhol's portrait of O.J. Simpson: our pick of the highlights from May's sales
Plus, the poems that became sculptures
A homecoming for Abstract Expressionist Shirley Jaffe at Tefaf New York
The native Brooklynite, fêted in Europe, figures prominently on Nathalie Obadia’s stand at the fair
At Tefaf New York, dealers spotlight work by women
Gallerists at the fair say more collectors are invested in greater gender diversity among their holdings and are keen to invest in art by women
An overdue showcase for midcentury abstractionist Anna Walinska
A presentation at the American Art Fair puts Walinska in context with Elaine de Kooning and others
A 'purposely regional' Taipei Dangdai fair suggests Taiwan's art market is slowly recovering from the pandemic
While Mainland Chinese exhibitors remain sparse due to visa restrictions and political tensions, local collectors came out in force
Stephen Friedman opening New York location in Tribeca
It’s the latest in a long line of galleries to open in the upscale New York neighbourhood
Christie’s kicks off New York’s spring auctions with record-breaking Rousseau
The auction house’s bottom line benefitted from the strong performance of works from the collections of S.I. Newhouse and Paul G. Allen
Gagosian to close its vast Britannia Street gallery in London after two decades
The gallery is instead launching a new public platform for large-scale sculpture in October
Abstraction is ascendant at New York’s Future Fair
The fair, a haven for fresh painting, may signal a coming shift in the market power dynamic between representation and abstraction
Photo London's director promises to 'embrace the new'—so why does it look the same?
Now under the directorship of Kamiar Maleki, the UK's largest photography fair returns to Somerset House for its eighth edition
'Not a matter of competition, but natural progression': Pilar Corrias to open new London gallery in Mayfair
The 500 sq m space will replace the Fitzrovia gallery and open this October with an exhibition of work by Christina Quarles
Design dealers set the tone at Tefaf New York
Despite the fair’s small stands in comparison to its Dutch sister fair, gallerists are pairing art with functional design
Taipei Dangdai capitalises on dedicated local collectors
The fourth edition of the art fair opens this week with 90 galleries, 70% of which have premises in Asia
Auction houses anticipate $2.2bn from New York spring sales despite cooling market
Demand for ultra contemporary works may have eased but there is little sign of a sales slump, say the New York firms
At New York’s Independent fair, opportunities to discover the overlooked and the emerging
The fair’s founder Elizabeth Dee wants to preserve its boutique identity while continuing to fill gaps in recent art history and launching a new print project
Officials in Mexico call on Dutch auction house to halt sale of pre-Columbian artefacts
Some 30 objects in an auction this week are protected by Mexico’s cultural heritage laws, authorities there say
Tefaf brings a blend of eras and materials for its eighth New York edition
The Dutch fair’s smaller North American outpost has an eclectic offering emphasising modern and contemporary art as well as antiquities
KAWS wins nearly $1m in damages in counterfeit lawsuit
Artist Brian Donnelly first filed the lawsuit against Dylan Joy An Leong Yi Zhi in 2021
Former OpenSea employee found guilty in first-ever NFT insider trading trial
Former OpenSea product manager Nathanie Chastain has been convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in a landmark case
Hedge to hedge: a secondary market for third-party auction guarantees is on the rise
There is a growing trend for guarantors to spread their risk by selling off parts of their guarantees—violating auction house rules
The Armory Show lines up more than 225 galleries for fair’s third year at sprawling Javits Center
The fair has grown to be among the largest in the world since it began as a hotel fair in 1994
Time to invest in the art market? New 'stock exchange for art' to launch at the Victoria & Albert Museum this month
Francis Bacon’s triptych Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer revealed as the first work to be listed on Artex, starting at around $55m
Art Basel appoints Maike Cruse as fair director
The current head of Gallery Weekend Berlin will start in the newly created role in July and oversee the 2024 fair