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The Art Market

  • Tuesday, 8 April, 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

  • Wednesday, 2 April, 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

    A man sits beside a steamed-up window, with red and yellow colours glimpsed behind
  • Saturday, 22 March, 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

    A woman looking at a sculpture in the shape of a vase with the words ‘Beans on Toast’ in neon light fixed to it
  • Thursday, 13 March, 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?

    Black and white photo of a child, blown up to a monumental scale, seen from above in a brown and green landscape
  • Thursday, 20 February, 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

    A couple dance on a beach shielded by a butler holding an umbrella while two people in hazmat suits behind wrestle with a barrel of toxic waste. A ship is seen sinking in the distance.
  • Friday, 31 January, 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

  • Thursday, 16 January, 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

    Painting of a woman holding a framed painting aloft
  • Thursday, 9 January, 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

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 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

    Two men in white gloves holding an ancient marble tablet inscribed with writing and symbols
  • Thursday, 5 December, 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

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Collecting
    Crypto king goes bananas for $6.2mn

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

  • Thursday, 14 November, 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

  • Thursday, 7 November, 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

    A skyscraper that tapers to a peak towers upwards in a sunny blue sky
  • Thursday, 31 October, 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

  • Thursday, 24 October, 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

    People walk through the passageways of an art gallery looking at the works on the walls
  • Thursday, 3 October, 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

  • Thursday, 12 September, 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

    A smartly dressed seated man in a suit gives a speech to an audience holding a microphone
  • Thursday, 4 July, 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

  • Thursday, 13 June, 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

    Room with green floor with painting of trees on the wall and a yellow bed and drawers art installation
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Collecting
    New claimant to €35mn Klimt emerges

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

    A Gustav Klimt painting of a woman in a flowery dress against a lurid red background
  • Thursday, 11 April, 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

  • Thursday, 29 February, 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

    A watercolour of a pink-feathered spoonbill near the reeds of a riverbank in John James Audubon’s book ‘Birds of America’
  • Thursday, 22 February, 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

    A digital billboard on a glass-plated building displays art by Savannah Marie Harris
  • Thursday, 8 February, 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

  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Collecting
    Rediscovered Klimt painting tells a tale of postwar restitution

    Return of Austrian artist’s work points to increased claims; Sotheby’s makes buying cheaper (but selling pricier); Lévy Gorvy Dayan moves premises

    A Gustav Klimt portrait of a pale young woman in a floral shawl against a red-orange backdrop
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