Despite headline figures of record sales, is the art world's bull market coming to an end?

The global art world sprang back to life with a vengeance in 2022

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Shanghai Art021, which was dramatically shut in November because of a single Covid case, is staging a two-location pop-up this month

A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work

“I couldn’t believe the dynamism, the energy, the courage, the rawness of these works,” the actor and activist said

Single-owner collections and millennials boost auction house’s revenues despite “challenging macro environment”

After seven years of investigations, Ruffini has been handed over to French authorities, likely setting the stage for a trial in Paris

Fine art accounts for $5.7bn of that total, a 9.5% drop from 2021

After decades of failed museum projects and short-lived gallery outposts, dealers are testing pop-up and retail models in the entertainment capital of the world

New data shows there has been little real progress in fighting sexism and racism between 2008 and 2022

With a host of identikit international fairs showing works already viewed online and often already sold, is there a point to generating all those air miles?

Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December

It comes to the block alongside another wooden sculpture by Heckel's contemporary Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

A court has ruled that Simon Dickinson, who advised a British aristocrat to sell an 18th-century French masterpiece for a fraction of what it later sold for, did not deliberately undervalue the painting

The organisation's fourth leader in three years, he will oversee both Maastricht and New York events alongside chairman Hidde van Seggelen

Richter, a native of Dresden, will have his first solo show with the Cologne-born mega-dealer in March 2023

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

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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