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

Auctionsanalysis

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

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

Art marketanalysis

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

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

Art fairsanalysis

‘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

Banksynews

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

Art marketanalysis

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

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

Podcastspodcast

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'

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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

Kabir Jhala. With additional reporting by Gareth Harris

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

Collectingfeature

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

Art marketfeature

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