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Bubbles, sheikhs and the freeport frenzy: Georgina Adam reflects on 30 years of art market reporting
Our art market editor-at-large looks back on three decades of booming sales and soaring prices, from Middle Eastern emergence to the evolution of auction houses
What’s the ideal post-pandemic art market? One that's no longer a Disneyland for the rich
Capitalism has gobbled up the art world over the past decade—it is high time for a reset
Auctions are like dating: you can do it online, but sparks only fly in the flesh
The coronavirus lockdown is boosting lower level virtual sales, but only a major live auction will kick-start the top end of the art market and revalidate prices
As The Art Newspaper turns 30, the question is—will the A-word survive?
"Art" is a loaded term, freighted with associations of class and power
'Marmite' Boris Johnson or 'deep cuts' Jeremy Hunt—which would be good for the arts?
The former UK minister for culture, Ed Vaizey, weighs in on which of the two candidates for prime minister would best serve the arts
A collection of 50 contemporary artists’ favourite works of art
Book looks at what they like and how they think it helps their own work
A crisis of faith: is Big Data the art world’s new religion?
The rise of Big Data means that connoisseurship is being replaced by "intel", which has far-reaching implications for the art world
Are we worried enough about the planet to give up jetsetting to art fairs?
A truly environmentally friendly art world requires that we give up the 'freedom, privilege and progress to which we are so accustomed'
How Notre Dame abounds in the collective artistic imagination
Matisse's 1900 painting of the gothic cathedral risked taking on elegiac significance before the fire was extinguished
'Hong Kong is free—on paper'
Certain subjects have become off-limits—but no one knows exactly what can or cannot be discussed
Art in sensitive times
In the face of turbulent times the public art museum has a difficult, but essential role to hold open an open space for dissenting experiences of art and culture
Vik Muniz: My advice to fellow artists in the face of grim political times
Brazil’s cultural sector must respond to hard-right politics by reconnecting with the wider community
The all-powerful market is sounding the death knell for connoisseurship
Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose
The sidelining of arts education in England is seriously out of step with our times
While this year's A-level results show a rapid decline in arts subjects in the UK, countries outside of the West are stepping up teaching of creative subjects
Traffic believes the US and UK ivory sale bans are ‘vital elements in the international response’ to poaching
The official spokesman of the wild-trade monitoring organisation responds to The Art Newspaper's article on the trade in elephant ivory—and we respond to him
Rapper pays $18.5m for work at auction but the artist gets nothing—is the system in need of reform?
Anny Shaw asks if auction houses and dealers should pay their dues to the artists from whom they profit
Sydney’s flagship museum is entirely focused on building a costly extension. Why?
Unless the Art Gallery of New South Wales begins to focus more on exhibitions, there is every reason to believe that Sydney Modern will be a gigantic and costly flop
Why the French can sell arms and culture to Saudi Arabia, but the US and UK only arms
France's latest deal with the Kingdom reveals the close connection between culture and foreign affairs
Who should win, who will win, and how smartphones dominate Turner Prize shortlist
Art critic Ben Luke gives us his take on this year's nominees
Auction houses must share the blame for university sell-offs
Christie's sale of 46 works from La Salle collection will diminish the museum and its academic programme
What does a $450m Leonardo mean for the Old Master market?
Slick marketing produced stupendous sale price for Salvator Mundi, but it sparked revulsion as well as elation
Forget the issue of an artist’s Native American bloodlines
It’s time to stop letting the controversy over Jimmie Durham’s ancestry overshadow his art
Can the cultural self-harm of Brexit be limited?
Britain will pay a high price if its creative industries are ignored in negotiations to leave the European Union
Six opinions on the potential impact of Louvre Abu Dhabi
Protest is one thing, destroying art is another
Sam Durant’s Scaffold is a powerful work that should provoke anger about the death penalty, not the artist’s ethnicity
Fake heritage for the fake news era
Damien Hirst’s exhibition in Venice this summer is part of a long tradition of counterfeiting history—but the UK artist has added a contemporary twist
Now is the time for an Italian-American museum exchange programme
With Italy’s historic reform of its museums’ leadership at risk in the courts, what we need is a more collaboration not less
Olafur Eliasson: ‘There is ultimately no space in which art cannot work’
An exclusive extract from a new book about the ideas and practice of Studio Olafur Eliasson places projects including Ice Watch, Green Light and Little Sun into a bigger context
Creative workshop is just the job for Venice Biennale
Project helping migrants and refugees would be diminished if it was a sideshow
Why try to fix the Turner Prize when it ain’t broke?
There is a downside to dropping the age limit of 50 for qualifying artists