Charity auction

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Dames Tracey Emin and Sonia Boyce contribute works to save cash-strapped Quench

The Margate project space has supported 68 artists in the past four years, but is now “on the brink” of closure

Grayson Perry and Cornelia Parker donate works to Freedom from Torture charity auctions

Ai Weiwei’s taxi window crank sculptures will also go on the block at the Sotheby's live sale

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Kim Kardashian outbid by American football legend Tom Brady for George Condo work at charity auction—but both won in the end

A star-studded fundraising gala for the criminal-justice charity Reform Alliance included a high-stakes auction and blackjack tournament

The donating game: How artists like Tracey Emin are driving philanthropy in the art world

The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?

Are charity art auctions, not donations, the new model for offsetting taxes?

Paul Allen’s estate has pledged proceeds of its $1.6bn Christie’s sale to unnamed philanthropic causes, while FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried vaguely promised to give away his fortune

Marlene Dumas donates Mouth painting about women's rights for Amnesty International sale

Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris

Hear them roar: Peter Doig and Ai Weiwei make tiger rugs for charity initiative

The profits of the sale will go towards tiger conservation efforts in countries including Bangladesh and China

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'The downside to art world altruism that no one talks about'

Charity sales, while undoubtedly a positive, tend to skew valuable auction data upwards and muddy an already opaque market

Tracey Emin donates brain sculpture for Parkinson’s UK auction

An exhibition open to the public in London's Piccadilly will bring together the art from top UK artists before the works go under the hammer at Christie's