Plus: a new fair for Dallas; Hong Kong gets expert adviser; and five-star ratings for London’s Airbnb pop-up
Anti-apartheid photographer gets his due; steady sales at Art Basel Miami Beach; momentum builds for Miami artist
Commissioner supports local artists while galvanising would-be art patrons
Magritte sets $121mn record; Untitled Art fair to open in Houston; Oliver Cromwell portrait rediscovered
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
Galleries and institutions aimed to raise the Japanese capital’s profile with a celebration of contemporary art
AI and the art market; the rise of limited editions; a €400,000 boost for Turin museums
Ronald Perelman’s $410mn lawsuit shines a light on the conflicts between collectors and insurers
Lisa Schiff advised wealthy collectors on contemporary works but admitted pocketing their funds intended for purchases
Plus: satellite fairs boost contemporary art; Sotheby’s opens new Paris HQ; Komunuma draws gallerists to suburbs
Former Sotheby’s chair James Stourton shares an insider’s glimpse into the murkier corners of a ‘gentlemanly’ world
France’s biggest art fair’s debut in its auspicious new venue dovetails with heavyweight museum shows
Their collection, housed in a private museum north-west of Paris, features work by Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Dan Flavin
The Jamaican-born artist uses a technique called picotage to makes his work shimmer
The winner of the Frieze Artist award 2024 has created a ‘carebot’ with emotional problems
Art from ancient to new is being sold in galleries, auction houses and Frieze Masters this autumn
Her 15,000 artworks range from the Bombay Progressives to Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor
The couple’s commission for Art on the Underground is an ambitious mosaic in St James’s Park station
His new section at Frieze London brings together Indigenous and diaspora artists, with a focus on clay
The section features helium-propelled penguins and alabaster creatures
A museum closure has shone a light on the vast collections acquired during the bubble years — and warned companies that change is coming
The Frieze art fairs return as global sales fall and costs rise, but organisers have plans to increase attractiveness
The New Yorker has witnessed London’s art market grow from quiet origins into a high-octane scene over the past 40 years
She uses beetle secretion to blow amber bulbs for her rococo lights
Newsletters such as Snake, Ground Condition and For Scale are providing independent views on what’s worth buying
