The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars

Drahi bought Sotheby’s less than three years ago, took it private and began implementing a series of cost-cutting measures

The Dutch event is asking all dealers to pay €7,500 "towards expenses and other contractual obligations". A new date for the fair next year is to be confirmed

The firm’s sales were bolstered by a sharp increase in online bidders, who accounted for 92% of all bids this year

Illicit trade in cultural heritage finds a home on social networks, study reveals

For the first time in its four-decade history, the fair’s curatorial programming will be led by experts in Latinx and Latin American art

Sarah Biffin was an accomplished miniaturist who was so famous in her lifetime Charles Dickens referred to her in three novels

The Watermelon Sugar star's knitted garment, designed by JW Anderson, became an internet sensation last year

Bendor Grosvenor selects his favourite exhibition, discovery, book and auction consignment of the year

Claude Dumont-Beghi has managed to partially challenge her conviction, though judges uphold money laundering decision

The 26-year-old decided to launch a business, focusing on marginalised artists, after the pandemic forced Fotografiska to temporarily close and she lost her job

The past year will mostly be remembered for the ongoing social and economic convulsions caused by Covid-19. But in the art trade, the old world order was being demolished

With 100 galleries and a new public art programme, the fair is moving ahead in a new location despite the Omicron variant’s creeping influence over the art fair stratosphere

The star of the sales was a pair of half-length portraits by Van Dyck that sold for £6.2m at Sotheby's, the second-highest price for the artist at auction

The firm is buying the London-based books and works on paper specialist Forum Auctions—it previously bought Dreweatts and Bloomsbury for £1.25m in 2017

The items have been under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney since 2017

Sales of the new project by Pak point to increasing gamification in the NFT market, though the superlative total sum comes with a number of caveats

Actor-turned-artist opens third museum show in Germany with experimental works painted almost 60 years ago

The now-defunct jail once held playwright Oscar Wilde on charges of gross indecency between 1895 and 1897

London Art Week has partnered with the Jewish Country Houses research project to hold a three-part online talks programme

Prayer was one of five paintings by the Chinese artist “entrusted by an important institution” to the state-owned Poly Auction

Plus, Caribbean-British art at Tate Britain and Marco Brambilla's VR work at Pérez Art Museum in Miami

The work, consisting of 83 child-size figures in concrete and wood, was made in the late 1990s and has been exhibited on the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

Timed entry meant a slower start but there is still an appetite for buying, despite the Omicron variant, at America's glitziest art fair

High demand for Canadiana, from a historic ceramic dessert set to Group of Seven paintings, drove Heffel’s major autumn sale in Toronto

An attorney in the Inigo Philbrick fraud case described the trade as completely rotten, I disagree

Simone Leigh's departure from Hauser & Wirth in favour of Matthew Marks is not the first high-profile artist/gallery split—here are a few more notable break-ups

The inexorable rise of the art market this century has put paid to art movements

As the whole art world starts to question traditional norms, the artist said she was "still figuring out what I want from a primary gallery relationship"—time will tell if she has now worked it out

The painting was consigned to China Guardian’s first Impressionist and Modern art sale by Lévy Gorvy gallery