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The Art Market

  • 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
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Sotheby's Inc
    Sotheby’s earnings plunge as art market catches a chill

    Arch-rival Christie’s also suffering from slowdown in auctions

    Francis Bacon portrait of his lover George Dyer at auction
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Collecting
    Frieze Seoul 2024

    South Korea will be the art world’s focus in early September as art fairs, biennales and exhibitions coincide

    Imagine a delicate painting of a landscape with some surreal features but it’s made from wool thread
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Frieze Seoul 2024
    Seoul art dealer Kyungmin Lee: ‘Running a gallery doesn’t always come down to the numbers’

    Her interests lie in spotting emerging talent and regional collaborations in a growing market

    A woman with a black bob in a black T-shirt and grey gradient skirt stands in front of a black-white gradient artwork
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Frieze Seoul 2024
    Korea’s Generation MZ art collectors come of age

    Driven by fashion and the fear of missing out, millennials and Gen-Z members are hungry for artworks under $50,000

    View inside an art storage room. On a table at the front is a white sculpture of Winnie the Pooh in front of a jar of honey. Bright paintings can be seen on moveable shelving units
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Lucy Warwick-Ching
    How can I avoid art investment scams?

    As a newcomer to the market, I’m worried about falling victim to fraud

  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    Luxury goods
    Auction houses aim to lure Asia’s ultra-rich with new openings

    Bonhams, Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s open Hong Kong headquarters and expand exhibition spaces and sales

    People walking beneath a large image of a man and the words ‘Another World’ at the centre
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Paris defies large fall in global auction sales

    Ethiopian gallery shuts London space; new fair offers art under £600; optimism in Tokyo

  • 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, 27 June, 2024
    Sotheby’s sale underwhelms in quiet summer season

    Vivienne Westwood items excite; Gagosian to have first show in Seoul; Frieze London gets a makeover

  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Collector Christian Levett on opening a museum devoted to female artists

    The former hedge fund manager is moving antiquities out of his gallery and moving in Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner

    In a painting, three young women dressed in soft dresses in the tones of white, cream and green are captured in a moment of suspense next to a bouquet of white flowers. The two girls in the background stare to their left, the one in the front, before her.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Impressionists beyond France attract attention in movement’s 150th anniversary year

    Overshadowed by French peers since 1874, artists from the UK, Sweden and elsewhere are gaining in prestige and price

    In a painting, pink-shaded mountain peaks extend beyond a picturesque fisherman’s village overlooking a blue-watered bay.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Gallerist Sylvia Kouvali: ‘The market moved to safer artists, with a more conservative approach’

    She gave up her space in Istanbul after tastes changed but has brought her eastern Mediterranean roster to London and Greece

    A young woman wearing a cream shirt, bordeaux shorts and black shoes sits on a cement staircase resting her head on her left hand. On her right, we see a green water hose pipe.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Treasure House Fair returns to London for a second year

    Dealers at the event will be hoping the next edition will bring improved visitor numbers

    In a pop-art painting coloured in red, black and blue dots and lines, a woman’s hand wearing a white glove is shown playing with two straws floating in a drink glass on the left side of the image. On the right, we see a pot full of straws.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    London’s art market thrives as a centre for Old Master drawings

    London Art Week is partnering with new platform Trois Crayons to create a drawings hub

    In a painting, a rural scene rendered in watercolours captures a river and a village as seen from above in warm tones of brown, green, yellow and blue.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Artist Rebecca Salter: ‘I’m quite happy with disruption’

    The first female president of the Royal Academy has to balance work with painting while redefining the institution’s future

    A middle-aged woman with short grey hair, dark glasses and a white shirt is portrayed painting in a naturally lit studio filled with wooden frames, textiles and paint rollers.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Collecting
    London’s summer art scene 2024

    From London Art Week to the Treasure House Fair, the capital is busy with art across millennia. Plus: interviews with artists, gallerists and the president of the Royal Academy

    In a collage, an abstract stone sculpture sitting on a wooden base on the left of the image resembles the roundness of an ancient Venus statuette. In the middle, a painting of a rural scene captures a water-green bridge immersed in a flowery pathway. On the right, a white vase features geometrical, grid-like motifs.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    The artist giving portraits their swagger back

    Stephen Farthing’s show at Kenwood House reinterprets luxurious pictures of aristocrats

    In a painting, two women dressed in opulent Jacobean dresses in the tones of yellow, white and black mirror each other while holding a floral folding fan in their right (or left) hand, respectively. Behind them, a colourful tapestry and curtains background.
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Art lender pauses operations because of ‘perfect storm’

    Photography fair cancelled in New York, launches in Hong Kong; tributes pour in for dealer Barbara Gladstone; new head at Artsy

  • 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
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Art Basel 2024
    Collector Haro Cumbusyan: ‘I am drawn to works that are outside of my comfort zone’

    The social entrepreneur and his wife have specialised in new media art — everything from films to holograms

    A middle-aged man dressed in a stripy dark jumper, blue trousers and glasses sits on a leather chair before a busy bookshelf. On the left of the scene, a wide TV screen shows a beach inhabited by floating ears
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Art Basel 2024
    Balkan artists step into the spotlight

    Aside from big names such as Marina Abramović, the region is little known globally, making it ripe for collectors

    An elegant hotel’s façade, featuring tall windows, floral motifs and an iron balcony, features signs reading ‘HOTEL MERIAN’ and ‘CAFE SPITZ’ and is illuminated by a two illuminated five-pointed stars
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Art Basel 2024
    Art Basel faces volatile economic backdrop and ‘generational shift’ as fair opens

    Maike Cruse, new director of the group’s Swiss edition, says young collectors want to network more and have fun

    A large yellow and purple patterned carpet against two light blue walls. Large wooden structures like latticed side tables sit on the carpet supporting various objects. Slogan paintings are on the walls.
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Art Basel 2024
    ‘Each show is conceived as a revelation’: Vicente Todoli on the Pirelli HangarBicocca art space

    The vast Milan gallery, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, presents exhibitions on a scale few others can manage

    A vast industrial space shown from above contains seven concrete towers scattered across an empty nave and a screen installation. On ground level, a small group of people walks around the room
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Art Basel 2024
    Anna Uddenberg’s sculptures of seduction, submission and control

    Her body-warping works entrap performers and make audiences consider how and why we give away our power

    A young woman wearing a beige double-breasted blazer dress, chequered tights and brown boots sits on a long, wooden working desk in a white studio
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