London-based company looks to expand luxury offerings as art market weakens
Marlborough’s Mayfair building for sale; Charles Saatchi offers 500 works for charity; Frieze slower in Seoul
Bonhams, Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s open Hong Kong headquarters and expand exhibition spaces and sales
Ethiopian gallery shuts London space; new fair offers art under £600; optimism in Tokyo
Vivienne Westwood items excite; Gagosian to have first show in Seoul; Frieze London gets a makeover
Photography fair cancelled in New York, launches in Hong Kong; tributes pour in for dealer Barbara Gladstone; new head at Artsy
Hong Kong sales disappoint; Banksy print from liquidated charity comes to Sworders; London and Newcastle galleries swap spaces
Artists support UK’s Labour party; Bali to get new private museum in 2026; Rodeo rebrands
Sotheby’s loses head; Christie’s shelves June evening sale in London; Old Masters dealer gets into sculpture
Basel Social Club takes over a farm; Italian Modernist Salvatore Mangione in the spotlight; Photo London gives young artists a break
Appointment hints at succession planning inside billionaire family behind French luxury group Kering
Christie’s offers prime Chardin for €12mn; Phillips gets Basquiat trio; Kusama tops list of 2023 contemporary artists
The former New Jersey governor has been fun to watch, but his candidacy has become a threat
2023 was a patchy year for auction houses and galleries but a surge in luxury goods and big-name sales softened the blow
Business models are nowhere near as plush as their carpets
Opera Gallery grows in London; report finds UK market at risk in competitive field; star scientist leaves Sotheby’s
New art fair opens in Mumbai; artist Rachel Jones goes it alone; Frieze gets advice from Sheena Wagstaff
From Yves Saint Laurent to Paul Allen, art assembled over a lifetime carries a premium
Fort Worth museum acquires prized Gainsborough; Selma Feriani grows in Tunisia; Gagosian brings new Hirsts to Frieze
Intimate Picassos offered by Ward Moretti; Christie’s set to make Paula Rego record; new ‘non-fair’ for London
Christie’s sells Signac after settlement agreement; report finds ‘flipped’ art doubled in 2022
From Gustav Klimt to Elizabeth Peyton, pictures of people are some of the hottest lots
The Art Basel fair will be a test of whether the recent global boom has come to an end
$20mn Rothschild collection comes to auction; adviser Lisa Schiff faces lawsuits; rare books bring out the buyers
Taipei fair back in force; Ortuzar Projects doubles space in Tribeca