Auction prices
Five years since the $450m Salvator Mundi sale: a first-hand account of the nonsensical auction
At the record-breaking sale at Christie's New York on 15 November 2017, the audience gasped and whooped as if they were at a very exclusive firework display
A Van Gogh record: landscape of orchard with cypresses soars to $117m at Paul Allen auction
Previous top price was $82m for a portrait of Dr Gachet
How does the market judge 'juvenile' work by name-brand blue-chip artists? Two early Warhol paintings are about to find out
Offered next week at Phillip's New York, the works were made during Warhol's student days and bear no resemblance to his signature styles
Banking on the Monets: Christie’s London to Paris relay auctions bring in a solid £203.9m
There were few fireworks in the three-part sale as the froth comes off the top of the market
Inflation is soaring in the US and UK—here's what it means for the art market
When prices rise, investors often buy art to lower risk and increase returns. But the market's buoyancy may be short-lived, as experience tells us
Christie's to offer Xu Beihong painting for £41m—highest estimate put on an Asian work by a Western auction house
It could become the most expensive Asian work sold by a Western auction house. Meanwhile, young contemporary names proved popular at last night's Sotheby's sale in Hong Kong
Benin bronzes: looted treasures will return to Nigeria at last
Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray
Neoliberalism is distorting how we see art—is there no alternative?
While today’s art world has been shaped by the prism of price, our current economic model may not be inevitable
The white supremacist art at the heart of the US Capitol
Plus, a $2.2m Batman comic and the artists inspired by political theorist Hannah Arendt
Blue-chip artists move over, here come the red chips
Art as a blue-chip investment has had its day, as buyers chase the latest "red-chip" names