There was a certain degree of sleight of hand at play by the auction house to achieve 100% of lots sold

Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

The auction house’s The Now sale of ultra-contemporary art was a success, but its marquee contemporary art sale came up well short of expectations

Though the wealthiest collectors remain untroubled by recent jolts to the economy, many galleries and younger collectors are being hit hard

As public institutions are working more with the private sector, there are calls for greater transparency

Jane Suitor has an eye on Andreas Schulze's paintings, while Benjamin Gosill's picks include work by Mariana Rocha

A former home for Huguenot refugees and a secret garden in the middle of Mayfair are among the venues used to host exhibitions in recent months—but public sculpture brings its challenges

The gallery, which has spaces in Kolkata and Mumbai, is showing eight South Asian women artists on its roster at the fair

Three works will be going up for auction at Christie's New York—but with an unusual caveat

It’s 20 years since the art fair opened its tent flaps. How much has changed?

Named Chomper for its well-preserved set of teeth, the skeleton was unearthed in Montana in 2019

Rembrandt is said to have created the painting of the blind Tobit, which is on sale for £24m, a year or two before his father died

The initiative was created by the UK-based company Roxbox, which has developed a range of reusable shipping crates to tackle waste

Everything you need to know about the artist’s market before you start building your collection

With two shows coming up and auction prices on the rise, the US photographer is finally emerging from the shadows of her famous male associates

Is regulation a wonder drug for curing the art market of its chronic fraud problem? Our columnist explains why that thinking is a myth

Despite a slew of records set for Western art in Asia, including new highest prices for Modigliani and Mark Bradford, the Hong Kong sale made below its low estimate

The work by the Ethiopian-American artist was sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong for $9.32m with fees

"La Patience" (1948), which was one of two Balthus paintings in the museum’s collection, will go up for auction at Sotheby’s New York in November

The debate over Europe’s art capital intensifies as post-Brexit red tape complicates business for UK art sellers and more major galleries set up shop in the French capital

Christie’s will offer six of the seven pieces by Schiele that were restituted to heirs of Fritz Grünbaum last month during its November sales in New York

Organisers expect more than 50 galleries to take part in the fair's inaugural edition next year

The Biblical scene was recently offered at auction for just €10,000

The probe concerns a convoluted financial transaction around properties in the French luxury ski resort Courchevel

A double-sided Fernand Léger estimated between $15m to $20m leads the offering, amassed by a Dutch shipping and oil magnate and his wife

The collection is led by Pablo Picasso’s Femme endormie (1934) which the auction house estimates will sell for between $25m and $35m

More than 85 galleries will show at this year's edition, which takes place at the historic Monnaie de Paris for the second-year running

The event, one of the most remote art festivals in the world, features more than 280 artists

Establishing ownership and value of works can be a complicated business, as recent legal cases have shown

From the devastation of the Cultural Revolution to the transformation of the contemporary art scene