With over 22,000 works hung on its walls, the popular chicken chain is an unlikely champion for emerging South African artists

Steamy Trinidad scenes and black female fetishisation—the best new commercial exhibitions this month

Art is pitched as an asset class, but even big-name artists are not guaranteed to hold their value, let alone turn a profit

Te Bourao II (The Purao Tree), which has been in the same collection since 1995, is estimated to sell for €5m-€7m at Artcurial

Representing nearly 10% of its staff, the content sales team and other divisions of the online art marketplace have been slashed following the recent appointment of Mike Steib as chief executive

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

Although top prices were hard to come by at Expo, high-earning young collectors are shoring up the middle market in the Windy City

Painting of Lucretia has been in a private collection in Lyon for the past 40 years and is estimated to sell for over €600,000

Burgeoning private museums offer cause for hope among economic uncertainty and geopolitical turbulence

London-based fair strikes international note as gallery roster expands

International engagement dwindled as a date shift put the fair at odds with Expo Chicago and ArtRio while violence rises amid Colombia's mayoral elections

Panel depicting the Mocking of Christ will go on sale at French auction house, in collaboration with Eric Turquin, in October

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Most of the late artist's work was lost in the tower block fire in 2017, but nine surviving prints will be sold in aid of education programme in her honour

New artistic director Marina Paulenka takes the reins of the annual photography festival this year

Although one Mayan relief was withdrawn, the Mexican government condemned the "illegal" sale but auctioneer Millon defends it as "perfectly legitimate"

Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions and fairs

Growing momentum in the Windy City is drawing in talent from across the US and around the world

The Vogels filled their modest apartment with contemporary art, but wage stagnation has seen the professional-classes squeezed out of this overheated market

Nigerian artist Sheila Chukwulozie makes her voice heard with protest piece at the fair

We take an in-depth tour of the Blake show and talk to Marc Glimcher about his vast new space in Chelsea and why galleries are becoming supersized. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Criminal investigation launched three years ago into Parisian dealers at La Biennale continues to diminish confidence in the event's integrity

Painting will be exhibited at Frieze Masters next month, after a "style of Botticelli" sleeper sold for over £6m at Zurich auction in June

Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions and fairs

Sprawling exhibition marks Irish artist’s first with Almine Rech gallery

The event will be renamed The Open Art Fair and will launch in March next year

Steve Lazarides leaves Lazinc in Mayfair to pursue solo projects

Commercial galleries continue to expand in Manhattan despite steep real estate costs

Fair is benefitting from Indonesia's burgeoning economy as well as cancelled Singapore fairs

With 91% of shareholders in favour, the publicly traded auction house will officially go private after three decades on the New York Stock Exchange