• May 21 2025
  Collecting

  Why should you care about Giacometti’s $70mn auction flop?

  The season’s top lot provoked gasps at Sotheby’s when it failed to sell — but there are worrying implications beyond the high-end art market

  
• April 8 2025
  Magritte takes Picasso’s crown — seven lessons from a tough year for the art market

  International art sales have slumped, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report finds — with fears that tariffs will have a seismic impact

  
• April 2 2025
  Photography

  Photo London turns 10 — and eyes a new class of collector

  As the fair returns to Somerset House for its anniversary edition, the founders reflect on new discoveries — and new patrons

  
• March 22 2025
  Visual Arts

  Who would want a job in the art market today?

  Low pay and redundancies have bedevilled London and New York — but Paris, Milan and Dubai may offer new possibilities

  
• March 13 2025
  Visual Arts

  JR is a street art sensation — but his market value remains an enigma

  The self-styled ‘photograffeur’ orchestrates public spectacles and is big on social media — so why are his sales relatively low-key?

  
• February 20 2025
  Visual Arts

  The Banksy market peaked — but there’s a reason his prices are still riding high

  He’s the ultimate outsider-insider artist, balancing rebellion with celebrity owners — even if not everyone is a fan

  
• January 31 2025
  Collecting

  Beirut has suffered endless catastrophes — its art galleries offer a glimmer of hope

  Amid conflict and economic woes, businesses have struggled in the capital — but dealers and curators sense the tide is turning

  
• January 16 2025
  Visual Arts

  What Asia’s top art collectors are buying — and why

  As gallerists and buyers descend on Singapore this week, a younger generation is refashioning art-market tastes

  
• January 9 2025
  Melanie Gerlis

  Why Milan looks like an art capital of the future

  Gallerists and collectors are drawn by an impressive cultural heritage — and attractive tax arrangements

  
• December 11 2024
  Visual Arts

  Green shoots for art sales at the end of the year

  Plus: a new fair for Dallas; Hong Kong gets expert adviser; and five-star ratings for London’s Airbnb pop-up

  
• December 5 2024
  Collecting

  Art fairs cancelled in Hong Kong and India

  Anti-apartheid photographer gets his due; steady sales at Art Basel Miami Beach; momentum builds for Miami artist

  
• November 21 2024
  Collecting

  Crypto king goes bananas for $6.2mn

  Magritte sets $121mn record; Untitled Art fair to open in Houston; Oliver Cromwell portrait rediscovered

  
• November 14 2024
  Collecting

  Art world reacts to Trump re-election

  Disgraced art adviser’s collection starts to sell; vast European forgery network uncovered; Monuments Men painting comes to Christie’s; Cyprus gets first art fair

  
• November 7 2024
  Sotheby’s announces new outpost in Saudi Arabia

  AI and the art market; the rise of limited editions; a €400,000 boost for Turin museums

  
• October 31 2024
  Collecting

  Sotheby’s brings more Leonora Carringtons to market

  Speculation mounts as Frieze put up for sale; European galleries join forces in NY; Ropac to open pop up in St Moritz; Lisson adds radical artist to roster

  
• October 24 2024
  Collecting

  Wealthy spent 32% less on art in 2023, survey finds

  Modern artists go on show in Manhattan; Brexit bureaucracy hits Barcelona fair; female-focused gallery to open in London

  
• October 3 2024
  Collecting

  Artists pitch in to raise $1mn for Kamala Harris

  Sotheby’s debt in the limelight; Christie’s dresses up for Hong Kong; advisory firm opens in Paris; Guyana artist gets his due at Frieze Masters

  
• September 12 2024
  Visual Arts

  Christie’s chief says Europe struggling to remain art-market centre

  Marlborough’s Mayfair building for sale; Charles Saatchi offers 500 works for charity; Frieze slower in Seoul

  
• July 4 2024
  Visual Arts

  Stolen Titian found at bus stop sells for £15mn

  All change for Lévy Gorvy Dayan in Hong Kong; antiquities gallery ruffles feathers at London fair

  
• June 13 2024
  Collecting

  Art Basel big-ticket sales banish ‘doom porn’ warnings

  Jeffrey Deitch gets surreal; textiles all the rage at Liste; lifestyle shop goes down well

  
• May 2 2024
  Collecting

  New claimant to €35mn Klimt emerges

  Fractional art platform hits $1bn milestone; auctioneer Simon de Pury to sell Helmut Newton collection

  
• April 11 2024
  Visual Arts

  Christie’s launches buy now, pay later scheme for art up to $1mn

  Endeavor quiet on future for Frieze; Venice brings out the business; Dallas fair eyes next generation

  
• February 29 2024
  Collecting

  Audubon birds to take wing for $12.5mn at Tefaf Maastricht fair

  Richard Saltoun opens in New York — which gets a new art fair; affordable studios open in London

  
• February 22 2024
  Collecting

  Online art fairs prove their renewed value for small galleries

  Christie’s poised for Brice Marden record with $50mn painting; Michael Werner to open in Los Angeles and Athens

  
• February 8 2024
  Collecting

  India Art Fair captures economic wave

  Christie’s offers Monet waterway for £18mn; Edward Enninful curates Mapplethorpe show; luxury brands court tattoo artists