Art market

Sotheby’s lands $400m Emily Fisher Landau collection for November sales

The auctions will include a 1932 Picasso painting with a $120m estimate

Constable sketch discovered in a suitcase heads for auction (again)

The drawing, which was first sold by the Yorkshire auction house in 2021, depicts Dover harbour from an East India company ship

1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair launches Moroccan earthquake relief project

Appeal brings artists and institutions together to raise funds to support survivors and long-term reconstruction

Fashion brand Stone Island to offer bursaries for emerging galleries at Frieze

Exhibitors in the Focus section of the art fairs can receive up to 30% off stand costs through the new partnership

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Nine artists, curators and dealers who beat the industry's stacked odds discuss challenges and solutions

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The art market is on a bumpy ride in 2023

Major auction houses have posted steep falls in turnover for the year so far—but some categories, such as luxury goods, are booming

The Armory Show is ‘business as usual’ at first edition since Frieze acquisition

Sales were off to a bustling start at New York City’s largest art fair, even as questions remain about what changes the new ownership will bring

Robert Colescott’s 1919 sells for $3.5m at Bonhams during special Armory Week auction

The painting, which featured prominently in a recent Colescott retrospective, hammered slightly below its estimate

Photofairs New York shows the promise and peculiarity of an evolving market

The new fair uniting conventional photography and new media makes a unique pitch to the trade during Armory Week

The Week in Art | Special 250th episode: what’s next for the visual arts?

We ask leading art world figures about their hopes and concerns, and discuss what the future has in store for museums, the art market and artists with our long-term contributors Cristina Ruiz, Georgina Adam and Louisa Buck

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Seoul has all the ingredients for success—can Frieze now take its market to the next level?

The city’s collectors, museums and state support make it a key player in Asia—but sales from the fair show its market is still nascent

Korean emerging artists to watch at Frieze Seoul and Kiaf

From Boschian epics and BDSM hardware to understated sculptures and irreverent paintings, a new generation of Korean artists is making a splash

A $20m Joan Mitchell will lead Sotheby's offering of works from the collection of New York dealer John Cheim

The late-career painting is expected to break the artist’s $16.6m auction record this November

They Want it All: Freddie Mercury collection smashes expectations at Sotheby’s

Objects ranging from Japanese art to a plush red crown and cape drove bidders into a frenzy on New Bond Street

New ‘non-fair’ for art to open in London

Minor Attractions will stage exhibitions at two London venues to counteract the focus on sales during Frieze Week

‘Seoul is still a boomtown’: solid sales at Frieze and Kiaf defy market dip

An economic downturn and an overlap with the Armory fair in New York appear not to have put off collectors at the concurrent fairs in the South Korean capital

Art, furniture and more from the Rothschild family’s private collection could fetch $30m in unprecedented New York sales at Christie’s

The autumn auctions will mark the first dedicated sales in North America tied to the powerful banking family

Bullish amid cooling market, galleries keep betting on New York real estate

Hollis Taggart is expanding its Chelsea footprint, White Cube will soon open on the Upper East Side and the South African gallery Goodman is prepping a Manhattan pied-à-terre

South African gallery Southern Guild opening a permanent space in Los Angeles

The Cape Town-based art and design gallery will inaugurate its Los Angeles location in February of 2024

Hauser & Wirth announces representation of Venice Golden Lion winner Sonia Boyce

The move comes after the UK artist split from Simon Lee Gallery in London

Pace gallery to open in Tokyo next year

The mega gallery's forthcoming space comes as Japan adjusts its art tax laws to attract international dealers

Venture capitalist Tony Lyu on his collection and favourite spots in Seoul

Lyu discusses how a light-filled former apartment informed his early art purchases, and what the legacy of the crypto boom will be for South Korea

Seoul gets another art fair as Art Busan opens design-led outpost

The Korean capital’s status as an art world hub will be bolstered by Define Seoul

Sotheby’s to sell €11m collection from the Hydra home of Pauline Karpidas

The British patron’s annual meetings on the Greek Island were a “who’s who of the contemporary art world”

Scenes from the 2021 fatal shooting incident on Alec Baldwin’s film set reimagined at Marseille fair

Alex Margo Arden’s paintings at Art-o-rama raise questions about the responsibility of artists when depicting tragic real-life events

Christie’s calls off further sales of Heidi Horten’s controversial jewellery collection

Horten’s late husband became a billionaire during the “Aryanisation” of Nazi-era Germany