Thanks to the pandemic, we have many alternative ways to buy, sell and enjoy art, and now this genie is out of the bottle, we don’t want to put it back

Collaborative shows from 2 to 16 July features over 40 galleries, with Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi chief curating an online exhibition for those who cannot make the trip

All but one of the four auctioneers conducting the £153.6m marathon 20th- and 21st-century evening sale were women

Estimates of the potential size of the art market are way off the mark

"We are trying to build a programme that will be very female and queer oriented... that might be difficult for a Mexican audience, but it has to happen,” founder says

Asian bidders and British art boosted figures to make auction house's highest summer total since 2018

Rather than a full fledged fair, the event will bring together works from galleries and independent design studios

Our pick of the works coming up for sale in London and Los Angeles

Philosopher Reading is now the third most expensive work by the Rococo artist to sell at auction

From portraits of Napoleon and his wife reunited after nearly 200 years to Rafael Nadal's buttocks

The fair was cancelled last year due to Covid-19 but this year was bigger than ever before, at 43 galleries

LAMB opens this week in the Georgian townhouse formerly occupied by Bernard Shapero rare books

The companies that make Hirst’s art and manage his £183m collection are owned by the offshore parent Science

Two canvases by Carr blew past their estimate to become among the highest auction prices paid for her work, while a painting by 92-year-old Rita Letendre set a record for the artist

The painting was found in an Ontario thrift shop and purchased for just five Canadian dollars

Seasonal two-storey space is newest addition to Monaco's growing commercial art scene

Auction house chose to hold its 20th century and contemporary art evening sale in New York during what is traditionally the London season due to "detonated" calendar

A Chinese collector bought the 15th century gold and bronze Ming-dynasty sculpture of the god Vajrabhairava earlier today

The almost 800 rare archaeological artefacts are now on show at the Castello Svevo in Bari

Both Bryan Barcena and Stephanie Dudzinski have worked with major museums and galleries in the city

Tuten was close friends with Roy Lichtenstein, who twenty years ago saw promise in the writer’s sketchbook.

Our pick of the best objects up for sale in London and New York

French government sold works by the intestate artist for a pittance; now the UK is set to follow suit

This is the first time the gallery will open temporary spaces

The opulent Palais Oppenheim in Cologne will host exhibitions and sales from September. Sotheby's says move is due to growing client base in country, not Brexit

Galleries and auction houses continue to set up shop with niche exhibitions where their clients spend their vacations

A portion of the proceeds from the selling exhibition will benefit two regional museums, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey and the Zapopan Art Museum

The Conseil des Ventes Volontaires concludes that China dominates global auctions, accounting for $8.6bn of sales and 35% of the worldwide market

Buyers and sellers will never know each others identity when transacting through the online site, but its founders say such privacy encourages trust and transparency