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

Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris

An exhibition at Mazzoleni Art is embroiled in a longstanding and torrid dispute between members of Vasarely's family

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”

Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach

Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio

Plus, UK culture cuts and Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid

We pick our favourite works bringing holiday vibes art the art fair

Work that showed a public leaderboard of the richest people at Art Basel in Miami Beach will now stay in the city

The fair saw healthy sales, particularly at the market’s top end, but many galleries are wary of a downturn

While the judge decided the defendant sold the works in good faith, he ruled that all seven objects purchased by the sheikh are fakes

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

David Castillo Gallery will become the only local dealer to make the jump to the mothership in its more than 50-year history

Plus, a Modernist landscape by Ferdinand Hodler and a sumptuous Old Masters Madonna

Noah Horowitz and Vincenzo de Bellis discuss their visions for the global fair brand and its flagship US fair in Miami

Amid high-profile bankruptcies of cryptocurrency companies and a dramatically shrinking NFT market, some art world players are pulling back while others double down

Fair will exhibit works by Jimmy DeSana and Barbara Ess, largely forgotten artists who were contemporaries of Robert Mapplethorpe

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

The Ghanaian painter and market darling has not formally joined the world’s biggest gallery—for now

Charity sales, while undoubtedly a positive, tend to skew valuable auction data upwards and muddy an already opaque market

A spate of recent high-profile cases demonstrate ongoing challenges for the sector

Service offered by the New York-based alternative investment platform Yieldstreet promises healthy returns to investors willing to buy "blind"

Collector Frances Scaife is selling 14 dog portraits by English and American artists at Hindman auction house in Chicago

Closed borders have impacted the selection of offerings this season, specialists say

Monica Bonvicini's departure from the gallery's roster is one of many in recent months

The fair will take over the west Los Angeles airfield, with strong cohorts of local galleries, international megas and Korean dealers

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

Belle et Belle gallery has now been dissolved, closing the chapter on a decade-long criminal investigation

Collectors were fewer and more local, but the moderate success of some galleries attests to the city’s enduring commercial cache

A seascape that fetched nearly $3m at Sotheby’s this week was one of the works abandoned in an attic