Art market
New York dealer arrested for selling ‘cookie cutter’ manufactured goods as authentic antiquities
Investigators found thousands of fakes, as well as tools and materials used to make them seem ancient, in rooms near Sadigh Gallery’s Fifth Avenue showroom
Manet of the Valleys: portrait of the artist's bespectacled cousin to be restored by National Museum Wales
Painting will undergo extensive technical examination and cleaning thanks to €20,000 grant from Tefaf fund
More uncertainty for autumn fair season: PAD London cancels
The art and design event has been cancelled due to the continuing difficult travel situation between the UK and France and will return in October 2022
Former Bonhams owner Robert Brooks dies
The ambitious auctioneer started out in car racing before going into art and antiques, eventually retiring to his farm near Exmoor to rear a herd of beef cattle
Noah Horowitz joins Sotheby's after stepping down as Art Basel’s director of Americas
Horowitz's new position will see him increasing Sotheby's collaboration with galleries and art dealers
Frieze Art Fairs return to Regent’s Park in October—so what has changed since 2019?
Galleries from 39 countries will participate this year as the art fair circuit kicks back into life
Thatcher and tampons: How Tracey Emin came to sell her unmade bed to Charles Saatchi
British artist says she had previously refused to sell her work to the YBA collector after his ad campaign rocketed Margaret Thatcher to power in 1979
Here is a glimpse of what you can expect at Art Basel's return event in Switzerland next month
Visitor capacity is capped at 20%, but organisers are bringing back both Unlimited for large-scale works and the public art trail Parcours
Need a 100-year-old Inuit parka made from seal guts? Dealer Peter Petrou to sell collection at Sotheby's
The London-based dealer of four decades is downsizing and having a 200-lot sale of contemporary art, Modern furniture, ethnographic art and antiquities
Let them buy cake! From Charles and Diana to Donald Trump, the auction stars of the wedding cake world
As a 40-year-old piece of icing and marzipan sells for £1,850, we look at the market for elderly baked goods (topped by a £15,000 biscuit)
Superblue to bring its immersive art experiences to New York and London this autumn
Dutch duo DRIFT launches multi-sensory exhibition at The Shed, while Japanese-British collective Studio Swine’s presentation will go on show in Pace Gallery’s Burlington Gardens venue
Noah Horowitz is stepping down as Art Basel’s director of Americas—next month
The Art Basel in Miami Beach chief will leave at the end of August, less than four months before the fair is due to take place in early December
Records set for Cinga Samson, Avery Singer, Vija Celmins, Titus Kaphar and Julie Curtiss at Phillips's $118.2m evening sale
Auction house chose to hold its 20th century and contemporary art evening sale in New York during what is traditionally the London season due to "detonated" calendar
Satellite summer: Lehmann Maupin and Carpenters Workshop Gallery collaborate in Aspen, while Christie’s pays homage to the Hamptons
Galleries and auction houses continue to set up shop with niche exhibitions where their clients spend their vacations
If you sell art in the UK, you must register for anti-money laundering supervision by tomorrow—or risk prosecution
"Art market participants" who sell works of art worth €10,000 (£8,600) or more must register with the HMRC by 10 June
Art Basel confirms it is happening this September IRL—but with some caveats
Collectors are told they must be fully vaccinated or supply a negative Covid-19 test in line with Swiss government regulations
Why are there so few black-owned galleries in London?
Despite the stars of so many artists of colour rising in the West, the trend is not reflected within the dealer community
Artists will not be subject to anti-money laundering regulations, UK Treasury says
After lobbying from art organisations, government has made last-minute decision that creators who sell their work direct to clients will not be classed as "Art Market Participants"
Frieze got Seoul: fair to launch in South Korea next year
The first event, featuring 100 exhibitors, will run in September 2022 in partnership with Galleries Association of Korea
Thaddaeus Ropac is the latest Western gallery to open in Seoul
With its resilient economy through the pandemic, South Korea is attracting the art industry's attention, with rumours of Frieze launching a fair in Seoul next year
Van Gogh's $30m riverscape with an absinthe-coloured sky comes up for sale at Christie’s
The story of Le Pont de Trinquetaille—with the young female mudlark and the ruffians from the red-light district
Phillips names Stephen Brooks, a former Christie's financial officer, as new chief executive
The current chief, Edward Dolman, will shift in September to a new role as executive chairman of Phillips’ holding company
Flight of the Balloon Dog: Jeff Koons leaves Gagosian and David Zwirner galleries for Pace
The gallery will now represent the shiniest and most expensive living artist worldwide
The art market is 'high risk' for money laundering, so ignore new regulations at your peril
The UK government may make examples of galleries, advisors and auction houses found failing to comply to new laws, so prepare your business with these steps
Berlin dealer Johann König opens new space in Seoul
Opening next month, the new space will include a sculpture garden on a roof terrace
Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
Plus, the story of a notorious forger and artist Collier Schorr on August Sander
Thirty-seven years with Richard Feigen: the dealer who was a collector first—and sold to feed his habit
Frances Beatty remembers a mentor who would rather give you a lecture on Max Beckmann or Peter Saul than sell you a Van Gogh, but who could do both
Remembering Richard Feigen, the high-profile dealer with an outsider's straight-talking outlook on the art industry
New York gallerist railed against auction houses, the inflation of prices and reputations, the industrial expansion of the art market, while still doing great business
‘The future of the art market’: Christie’s to become first major auction house to sell a standalone NFT work of art
With investors such as Elon Musk and Chamath Palihapitiya backing the purely digital art form, the trade is beginning to take notice