PreviewArt fairs
ArteBA unfazed by uneasy Argentine recovery
The 28th edition of the fair opens this month as the Argentine economy continues to struggle—but the cultural sector remains upbeat
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SP-Arte opens with a bright mood and sunny outlook on the market
Sales were slow—and stayed mostly inside the Brazilian circuit—but the trade remains optimistic
PreviewPrivate view
Private View: must-see gallery exhibitions opening this April
New commercial gallery shows—from East African scenes to Freud’s sitter
PreviewExhibitions
Lift-off for the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing
New exhibition in Zurich exploring artistic engagement with the Moon will be joined by more lunar-themed shows launching around the world
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Moroni's inventive portraiture to Hans Op de Beeck's dreamlike world
NewsSponsorship
Tate to stop accepting donations from the Sackler Trust
The move follows a mutual decision by the National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler Trust to not proceed with a £1m grant
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the "computer cowgirl" Gretchen Bender to Girault de Prangey's haunting snapshots of the past
NewsBlockchain
Blockchain-based art registry Artory acquires Auction Club database
The acquisition will make public 4,000 international auction house sale records
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a meditation on power to female sexual awakening
NewsArt market
Sales at New York’s Armory Show prove more stable than its venue
After the fair's last-minute relocation that displaced Volta from Pier 90, exhibitors from both fairs credit 'generous' community support for good business
NewsArt market
Richard Saltoun will donate a portion of his sales at Independent New York to support the all-female exhibition space A.I.R. Gallery
Founded in 1972 to support women artists, the non-profit gallery will use the proceeds to fund its fellowship programme
NewsArt market
New York’s fair landscape is in flux as Armory Week kicks off
Armory Show shifts venues, causing the cancellation of Volta and the emergency launch of Plan B, revealing the stakes for commercial art platforms are rising
PreviewCommercial galleries
Private View: our pick of March gallery shows around the world
New commercial gallery shows—from sculpture to shipwreck paintings
NewsArt market
Sotheby's sales up 16% in 2018 thanks to $1bn private sales boost
Auction house reports $6.4bn in total sales last year, while finance chief Mike Goss says guarantees will not be used "at a particularly high level" in future
NewsWhitney Biennial
'I stand in solidarity with the staff and say no': Michael Rakowitz on why he turned down the Whitney Biennial
Recent controversies over the museum's board prompt artist to question participation in this year's event
NewsObject lessons
Object lessons: from Egon Schiele's nod to Gustav Klimt to black magic by René Magritte
Our highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions
NewsArt market
Tefaf and Artvest tussle over management of New York fairs
Papers show Tefaf sought New York Supreme Court ruling releasing it from obligation to employ Artvest for bi-annual fairs
NewsArt market
Mary Boone's Manhattan galleries will close in April following her jail-time sentencing for tax fraud
Facing 30 months in prison beginning in May, the dealer calls herself the "Martha Stewart of the art world"
NewsArt market
New York edition of Volta suspended as The Armory Show makes emergency decision to relocate to Pier 90
Unforeseen structural issues have forced a third of the Armory's exhibitors out of their planned Pier 94 space and into Volta's venue
NewsSatellite Fairs
Frieze Los Angeles brings satellite fairs into its orbit
A local stalwart celebrates its tenth edition, a New Yorker goes West, and a young upstart sets out its stall at the Roosevelt Hotel
NewsArt market
'Saddened, humbled and heartbroken': Mary Boone sentenced to 30 months in jail for tax fraud
New York art dealer falsely claimed around $1.6m in personal expenses as tax-deductible business expenses in 2011
NewsFrieze Los Angeles
Art and entertainment worlds cosy up at Frieze Los Angeles
Having for years viewed each other with suspicion, relations between agencies and galleries may start warming up
NewsArt fairs
Will Frieze Los Angeles succeed where others have failed?
Shrugging away doubts, the city’s art dealers are cautiously optimistic of the fair’s future
NewsCommercial galleries
Private View: our pick of February gallery shows around the world
New commercial gallery shows—from figuration to incarceration
NewsObject lessons
Object lessons: from a heart-shaped meteorite to a censored image of Joséphine Baker
Our highlights of works being sold over the next fortnight
NewsArt market
The Armory Show offers a free booth to emerging galleries to celebrate its 25-year legacy
The first recipient of the new Gramercy International Prize, Ramiken gallery, will present two artists at the 2019 edition of the fair
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From female artists who made their mark on New York to designs for cities of the future
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Two venues of Andy Warhol, and young painter Theodora Allen's ancient symbolism
PreviewArt fairs
New York's Winter Show gets a facelift at 65
Formerly The Winter Antiques Show, the grande dame of New York fairs has dropped the word "antiques" in the hopes of drawing a younger crowd
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From cross-cultural pollination in Armenia's Christian art to a pagan awakening
NewsArt market
A monumental work by Marie Antoinette’s portraitist will headline Sotheby’s Female Triumphant sale
Major works by 14 women artists are expected to dominate Sotheby’s Masters Week offerings and bring more 'diverse' collectors
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2019
Three new fairs not to miss in 2019
From Singapore and Taiwan to Los Angeles, new events attempt to break into world's fastest growing art markets
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Art dealer Mary Boone claims early-life trauma prompted her criminal tax evasion
A psychological evaluation submitted by her lawyers to a Manhattan federal court ask for leniency in judge’s ruling
NewsArt market
Old Master works from the personal collection of famed art dealer Richard L. Feigen head to Christie's
The dealer says he will sell ten works to fund his retirement
NewsAfrican American art
African-American fakes on the rise
Problem is exacerbated as estates and foundations are increasingly unwilling to authenticate due to the threat of litigation
NewsObituaries
Nicola L., known for her feminist functional design, has died at 81
The artist’s 50-year career transcended art and design and provided humourous political critique
PreviewArt market
Private View: Our pick of January gallery shows around the world
From the US solo debut of Rodrigo Cass in San Francisco to some of Ulay's first photographs on view in London, here are the shows to see
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2019
Which exhibitions will be the blockbusters of 2019?
Major Leonardo and Rembrandt anniversaries mean a wealth of shows focusing on the Old Masters, but Tintoretto, the Bauhaus or Bill Viola could be dark horses
NewsArt market
US anti-money-laundering bill could reappear early next year
Critics say the proposed law, which stalled following the US mid-term elections, would place an unnecessary burden on dealers
BlogArt Basel in Miami Beach
Art Basel in Miami Beach diary: performing beauty at Satellite, cosmic creations at Untitled and making sweet art world music
Plus, a look into the archive at Solange's porn confession
NewsIndigenous art
This land is your land: US art world acknowledge Native American land rights
Movement is partly spurred by the US Department of Arts and Culture, which issued a guide on how to honour native land in 2017
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2018
Kids, Kabinett and going crazy for KAWS: talking points at Art Basel in Miami Beach
From VIPs storming Pace Prints to a tribute to the late dealer Richard Gray
InterviewCollector's Eye
Collector's eye: Dennis Scholl
Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
The tax man cometh: new laws on sales tax pose problems for US art dealers
US Supreme Court decision is causing anxiety among dealers
PreviewPolitics
Latin American galleries reassess sales strategies for Miami Art Week after border crackdown
Trump's decision to station 15,000 troops at the country's southwest border has further soured political relations between the US and its South American neighbours
PreviewExhibitions
Judy Chicago’s career and journey into the art-historical canon celebrated in new show
Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami includes test plates for the artist's most famous work, The Dinner Party
NewsExhibitions
Top shows to see in Miami this week
From a tribute to the feminist stalwart Judy Chicago at the ICA to a reunion of the AfriCOBRA artist at MoCA
AnalysisAuctions
The highs and lows of New York ‘gigaweek’
Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions
NewsArt market
Hockney sets new auction record for a living artist, but were strings pulled behind the no-reserve sale?
The Yorkshireman's 1970s Californian scene, Portrait of an Artist, sold on the nose at $80m at Christie's in New York last night
Podcast
David Hockney: exclusive interview with the world's most expensive living artist
We talk to David Hockney about Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which broke an auction record this week, selling at Christie's New York for $90.3m with fees. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From centuries of printmaking to video art pioneers
NewsArt market
African American artists sweep Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale in New York
With only two lots unsold, the auction house nets $362.6m in evening of avid bidding
PreviewArt market
How high will Hockney go and can his soaring market last?
A double pool portrait, estimated at $80m and offered at Christie’s with no reserve, could set a record for the most expensive work by a living artist
NewsArt market
Top lots go unsold at New York's Impressionist and Modern sales, proving a discerning but 'not doomsday' market
Monet carries Christie's evening sale while a Magritte shines at Sotheby's, marking an auction record for the Surrealist painter
NewsArt market
Ambitious estimates hamper Christie's $279.2m Impressionist and Modern art sale as Van Gogh goes unsold but Monet is on the money
New York auction topped by Monet's Le bassin aux nymphaés, sold to an Asian buyer at $31.8m
PreviewArt market
What to watch on the block during New York's fall sales
Lesser known lots still hold plenty of hammer potential
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Russian billionaire Dmitri Rybolovlev charged in corruption probe brought by Monaco police
The formal investigation follows his detainment earlier this week related to an ongoing spat with the art dealer Yves Bouvier
NewsArt market
Art Basel owner backs off from its regional fairs
MCH Group is selling its stakes in Art Düsseldorf and India Art Fair and will pull out of Singapore’s Art SG
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
As midterm elections approach, take in art that takes on issues at stake
PreviewArt market
Private View: our pick of November gallery shows
From a two-venue show of Albert Oehlen's abstract works in Paris to a Bridget Riley retrospective in Los Angeles, here are the gallery shows to see
PreviewArt market
Could sales slow at Artbo as political conservatism deepens in Colombia?
The divisive election of conservative president Iván Duque in August and resulting political tension may stymie sales at Bogotá's Artbo
AnalysisArt market
Will the market for AI art take off?
With no auction precedent and little primary market data, Christie's sale of a work made by an algorithm tests demand
AnalysisDigital art
Who needs artists? Rise in works made by AI raises real questions for the art market
A new portrait produced by an algorithm, expected to sell for around $10,000 at Christie’s, prompts new debates over authorship
NewsArt market
Trio of deaccessioned Georgia O’Keeffe paintings could make over $30m at Sotheby's
Modernist works from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be offered in New York in November
NewsArt market
Major Ebsworth Collection sale at Christie’s marks the first blockchain-recorded auction
Estimated at $300m, the sale of American Modernist masterpieces will be digitally encrypted by the blockchain startup Artory
NewsArt market
Russian billionaire Rybolovlev sues Sotheby’s for $380m in fraud damages
The mega-collector’s latest lawsuit, filed in New York, escalates his three-year legal feud with Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier
CommentArt fairs
When do satellite fairs become space junk?
With at least 19 such events taking place during Art Basel in Miami Beach this year, have we reached "peak fair"?
Margaret Carrigan