Small works won out at Sotheby's and Christie's as top lots went for their low estimates or were withdrawn

Some galleries are moving out to the industrial warehouse L’Hospitalet but others say it is too far out of the commercial centre

Christie’s will sell the piece with a £600,000 price tag next October to coincide with artist’s Royal Academy retrospective

Opening this week in San Juan, the third edition of the event hopes to help the region on the road to recovery

Our pick of highlights from the next fortnight's auctions and fairs

The two events have recently come under the same ownership although there are no plans to merge them—yet

Overall sales were down by around 30% but beyond the disappointing headline figures, women and minority artists shone

Strong German collector base attracts European and US galleries but the the influx of international dealers and visitors is only a trickle

Sculpture—estimated at £1m—was removed from the street by Andy Link in 2004 but later “liberated” from his East End garden

Andy Link says sculpture for which he demanded £5,000 in ransom was later stolen from him. Banksy’s former dealer says otherwise

We talk to German artist Anselm Kiefer about his new works inspired by String Theory and ask expert Scott Reyburn why the art market is treading water. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

Record prices were set for Charles White, Brice Marden, and Wayne Thiebaud, while a Clyfford Still painting prompted a prolonged bidding war

The Grace House Mural becomes the first and only such site-specific work by the artist to be sold at auction

The curator is organising “Feedback” for the gallery’s Upstate New York satellite space, marking her first major curatorial project since leaving LA’s Moca

The non-profit art space derives half its annual income from the charity gala which last year raised a record HK$7.8m

Work depicting Roman heroine Lucretia was in a private collection for 40 years

Work acquired by Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Drents Museum in Assen is one of few to survive from the artist's visit to Drenthe

Ed Ruscha's visual pun Hurting the Word Radio #2 rose to $46m, a new world record for the artist, but most lots barely reached their estimate in a slow sales season

New partnership with Connaissance des Arts magazine announced as third edition of the fair opens

The newly private auction house led the night's lots with its known money-maker Claude Monet, and set a world record for the Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka

Futurist bronze sculpture cast from another bronze in the 1970s sells for $16.2m—four times its estimate

Recent cases involving stolen art have raised questions over the behaviour of diplomats

In our new video series, deputy art market editor Margaret Carrigan recaps the highlights of New York's billion-dollar auction week

Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions around the world

Parisian fair dedicated to contemporary African art is gaining momentum in its fourth edition

How a work of art comes to auction is far from a simple process and its place in the eventual sale order is crucial

The chairman of Phillips on boardroom battles and joining the underdog

Can the quality of the smaller works coming up during "gigaweek" quell economic jitters?

If not immune to geopolitical unrest, then perhaps art is a refuge for money that is struggling to find its way into other assets