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  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Collecting
    Sunshine and sales at Art Basel

    Design fair to open in Paris; Hirst helps demystify NFTs in new film; Sotheby’s offers Klimt for Europe’s highest auction estimate

  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    Collecting
    White Cube joins march to Seoul

    Tefaf’s challenges rage on; Arnold Lehman leaves Phillips with a 1970s send-off

  • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
    Collecting
    Venus Williams and a group of artists rally to save Nina Simone’s home

    Photo London welcomes AI work; galleries open and close in London and New York; Fede Galizia flies the flag for female Old Masters

  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Sotheby’s launches digital-art marketplace in teeth of NFT collapse

    Plus: new director announced for Art Basel; inflation hits art prices; New York gears up for sales season

    Drawing of a cartoon astronaut
  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Patrick Caulfield prints reveal unseen images

    Young London gallery makes great strides; Phillips proves solid in new Hong Kong space; Dublin museum celebrates London dealer

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Collecting
    Why France’s art sales are in fighting form

    A tussle over tax; Tefaf back on track; Timothy Taylor goes big in New York — and more

    French president Emmanuel Macron views a painting in an art gallery
  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    Collecting
    Frieze LA secures city’s status as an art market destination

    Sales swift at Frieze and Felix; James Fuentes seeks LA’s emerging buyers; Christie’s invades Uber app

    People milling around in a gallery, appreciating artworks
  • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
    Visual Arts
    De Kooning and Richter hit the block at Phillips for £24mn

    Single-owner sale of Middle East art for Sotheby’s; Frieze alumni launch consultancy; is Bonhams for sale again?

  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Tech couple’s Surrealist collection comes to auction

    Lisson runs late in LA; abortion addressed in London show; Strauss wants to sell African art to African collectors

    Surrealist painting of a man standing and writing on a very big onion-looking egg
  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Sotheby’s gains Richter, London loses Masterpiece fair

    Galleries test Singapore’s market; Patti Wong sets up advisory business in Hong Kong

  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    Visual Arts
    Private collections power a year to remember in the art market

    The Paul Allen sale raised $1.6bn, Paris vied with London even more closely for European primacy, and all eyes turn to Asia for 2023

    Men carrying Rene Magritte painting into building
  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Collecting
    A season of sales ventures in the run-up to Miami Beach

    Art Basel and Luma Foundation back blockchain business; Hauser & Wirth hosts first online auction; Sotheby’s executive sells collection; Turin calls for contemporary collectors

    An abstract painting made up of jostling curved lines, circles and colours
  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    Visual Arts
    $35mn Rubens headlines winter Old Masters sales

    Perrotin opens in Dubai; tipping point for Kentridge’s market; Dallas art gala raises $9.4mn

  • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
    Collecting
    Mondrian poised to break auction record at Sotheby’s

    Gagosian keeps growing; Frieze boasts Rauschenberg and Bacon; British Art Fair hits the spot

    Detail of ‘Composition No II’ by Piet Mondrian
  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    Collecting
    Artist Lorenzo Quinn scores with World Cup commission

    Miami collector launches NFT tarot series; later version of royal Canaletto on market for $10mn

    Lorenzo Quinn sits at a work desk with an anatomical clay sculpture facing him and a partial cast of two arms with hands intertwined on the desk under his hands
  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    Collecting
    London sales show signs of buyer fatigue

    UK works sell well at Masterpiece; African art at Christie’s; Hôtel Lambert trove; new fair director at Art Basel; Deborah Roberts piece helps charity

  • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
    Collecting
    Japan gets an international art fair

    Sprüth Magers to open in New York; Art Basel galleries put spotlight on refugees; offer for MCH spin-off; Miami museum buys Nam June Paik work

  • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
    Collecting
    Retrospective marks William Turnbull’s centenary

    Banker’s collection sells at Christie’s; hybrid Hong Kong fair a success; Frieze moves to Santa Monica airport

    Oil painting which looks like a blue tide sweeping over a landscape canvas
  • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
    Collecting
    New York auctions shine — but the future looks dimmer

    Ernie Barnes painting sells for 65 times estimate; rockstars join London Gallery Weekend

    people attending a Sotheby’s New York auction
  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Collecting
    Warhol’s $195mn Marilyn kicks off epic New York auction season

    NY fairs report lower sales; Zwirner launches consignments portal; Tezos Foundation puts £1mn towards NFT art

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    ReviewVisual Arts
    $250mn Anne Bass collection for auction and Jeff Koons shoots for the moon

    Plus: Liste supports Ukrainian galleries; South South launches $40,000 fund; sustainability leads London art conference

  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
    Collecting
    Artists condemn war, with European buyers ‘in pause mode’

    As the international art world takes a stand on Ukraine, some players are unwilling to rock the boat

    The Cosmoscow art fair in 2020
  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    Collecting
    Christie’s lines up £10mn eye-catching Old Masters

    Celebrities add to buzz at Frieze LA; craft’s growing appeal; artists support the Warburg Institute

    Oil painting of a naked woman reclining
  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    Collecting
    UK tax authorities seize NFTs in fraud probe

    Photo London sells 25 per cent stake; dealer launches ivory rescue scheme; is it all over for OVRs?

  • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
    Collecting
    Bacon triptych estimated to fetch a sizzling £55mn

    Sadie Coles lends space to Londoners; Outsider artists break records; Pace takes on Hermann Nitsch

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