Art market
Old Masters need reinventing to avoid being frozen out
Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention
Marlene Dumas donates Mouth painting about women's rights for Amnesty International sale
Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris
Foundation of Victor Vasarely accuses London gallery of selling works by the Op artist that it doesn't own
An exhibition at Mazzoleni Art is embroiled in a longstanding and torrid dispute between members of Vasarely's family
Can art actually help improve Saudi Arabia's abject human rights record?
Culture is being used by Saudi Arabia to project an image of a state that “enriches lives, celebrates national identity and builds understanding between people”
Poland says Kandinsky painting sold at Berlin auction house was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw
Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach
Damaged Salvator Mundi copy by unknown artist sells for €1m at Christie's
Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio
The last hurrah? Art world excess at Art Basel Miami Beach
Plus, UK culture cuts and Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid
Let it snow, let it snow: wintry works bring the temperature down at Art Basel in Miami Beach
We pick our favourite works bringing holiday vibes art the art fair
Cheeky ATM installation that shows users' bank balances sells for $75,000 and will go on public display in Miami
Work that showed a public leaderboard of the richest people at Art Basel in Miami Beach will now stay in the city
Art Basel in Miami Beach sales report: dealers brace for gloomier times ahead
The fair saw healthy sales, particularly at the market’s top end, but many galleries are wary of a downturn
Qatari sheikh wins £4.2m lawsuit against prominent London dealer John Eskenazi
While the judge decided the defendant sold the works in good faith, he ruled that all seven objects purchased by the sheikh are fakes
Be ultra-wary of the ultra-contemporary: a triumph of hot air over real value
An unquenchable thirst for a certain set of young artists—with the eye-popping price-tags to match—is creating a pressure they are inevitably unable to meet
Next year—for the first time—a Miami gallery is going to Art Basel in Switzerland
David Castillo Gallery will become the only local dealer to make the jump to the mothership in its more than 50-year history
From a Dutch Golden Age still-life to a Nobel Prize medal: our pick of the highlights from December's sales
Plus, a Modernist landscape by Ferdinand Hodler and a sumptuous Old Masters Madonna
'Art Basel has to keep changing': after 20 years, what is next for the fair juggernaut?
Noah Horowitz and Vincenzo de Bellis discuss their visions for the global fair brand and its flagship US fair in Miami
Miami—once touted as an NFT hub—suffers through enduring ‘crypto winter’
Amid high-profile bankruptcies of cryptocurrency companies and a dramatically shrinking NFT market, some art world players are pulling back while others double down
Undervalued photographers get exposure at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Fair will exhibit works by Jimmy DeSana and Barbara Ess, largely forgotten artists who were contemporaries of Robert Mapplethorpe
Why are so many African art fairs dominated by non-African dealers?
Comparing the homegrown Art X Lagos to more global events like 1-54 brings up tough questions about race that the art world still struggles to answer
Gagosian showing new Amoako Boafo work in Miami before hosting his first New York solo show
The Ghanaian painter and market darling has not formally joined the world’s biggest gallery—for now
The downside to art world altruism that no one talks about
Charity sales, while undoubtedly a positive, tend to skew valuable auction data upwards and muddy an already opaque market
Major insurance claims spark questions over ‘damaged art’
A spate of recent high-profile cases demonstrate ongoing challenges for the sector
Would you invest in art without seeing it? New scheme invites users to buy into securitised—but unnamed—art loans
Service offered by the New York-based alternative investment platform Yieldstreet promises healthy returns to investors willing to buy "blind"
Who let the lots out? A pack of 19th-century dog paintings is coming to auction
Collector Frances Scaife is selling 14 dog portraits by English and American artists at Hindman auction house in Chicago
Hong Kong's autumn auctions for modern and contemporary art saw a 38% drop from last year—but why?
Closed borders have impacted the selection of offerings this season, specialists say
More artists leave König gallery amid 'sexual misconduct' allegations against its founder Johann König
Monica Bonvicini's departure from the gallery's roster is one of many in recent months
Frieze reveals details of its largest Los Angeles fair to date, with 124 galleries landing at Santa Monica Airport
The fair will take over the west Los Angeles airfield, with strong cohorts of local galleries, international megas and Korean dealers
Works by three overlooked Abstract Expressionists, newly represented by Hollis Taggart, head to Art Miami
The nonagenarian painter Sheila Isham and the estates of Albert Kotin and Norman Carton—all first-generation AbEx artists—are now represented by Taggart, who will show their work at Art Miami
Paris gallerists—found guilty of selling Picasso works stolen by handyman—receive suspended jail sentences
Belle et Belle gallery has now been dissolved, closing the chapter on a decade-long criminal investigation
Despite Shanghai fairs Art021 and West Bund shutting early due to Covid concerns, dealers report decent sales
Collectors were fewer and more local, but the moderate success of some galleries attests to the city’s enduring commercial cache
A crate of 40 Van Gogh paintings was once sold for less than $1
A seascape that fetched nearly $3m at Sotheby’s this week was one of the works abandoned in an attic