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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Lauren Indvik
      Auction hunter: the rare, the strange and the baffling

      ‘What I mistook for salvaged antique chair legs turned out to be a pair of 19th-century gutta-percha telescopic hearing aids; who could have guessed?’

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      The Art Market
      Tech couple’s Surrealist collection comes to auction

      Lisson runs late in LA; abortion addressed in London show; Strauss wants to sell African art to African collectors

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      HTSI
      The secrets of the Mercedes-Benz Holy Halls

      The maker opens the doors to the world’s most extraordinary car collection 

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      HTSI
      Why the CoBrA art movement still has bite

      Seventy-five years since being founded, the rebel collective is enlisting a new army of fans

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      InterviewVisual Arts
      Dhaka Art Summit brings the world to Bangladesh and Bangladesh to the world

      Rajeeb and Nadia Samdani have created a biennial event with exhibitions, performances, talks and screenings

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
      Ukraine pins hopes on symbols of resistance

      National museum hides holdings to prevent looting, while modern jewellery and artefacts become symbols of national identity

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
      In the loupe: How an industry tool became a collecting obsession

      Beran Toksoz is one of a band of aficionados who prize the humble magnifying glass as a signifier of craft and heritage

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      The Art Market
      Christie’s year-long scheme takes a fresh look at restitution

      Artificial intelligence platforms face lawsuits; Brafa returns to regular slot; Dickinson gallery’s new line-up; rare 1820 interracial portrait sold for $1mn

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Visual Arts
      FT Collecting Supplements
    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      The Art Market
      Christie’s tests the Old Masters market with no-reserve sale

      ‘Sunflowers’ lawsuit challenges Japanese owners; antique dealers aim to go green; Shezad Dawood dives into NFTs

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      HTSI
      The marvel of mochaware

      Once a staple of Victorian pubs, this pottery is now prized by collectors

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      HTSI
      What’s the bid for this rarest of Bugattis?

      One of three surviving Atalante Coupés, the ultimate getaway car is up for auction

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      HTSI
      Seven must-bid-for winter auctions

      The extraordinary collection of André Leon Talley, a rare Bronzino and Hockney’s beloved sausage dogs all go under the hammer

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      HTSI
      Why the Tiger Moth is still soaring

      Collectors love the light aircraft with a winning mix of pluck, simplicity and romance

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      The Art Market
      Sotheby’s gains Richter, London loses Masterpiece fair

      Galleries test Singapore’s market; Patti Wong sets up advisory business in Hong Kong

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Interview
      Gambling mogul and museum-founder David Walsh: ‘Art is all about sex and death’

      He made millions betting on horseracing before pouring it into Tasmania’s underground Museum of Old and New Art

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Ronald Lauder’s private collection at the Neue Galerie shows art through the eyes of a billionaire

      Works from the cosmetics heir’s holdings reflect his taste for the imperfect, unfinished and grotesque

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Lauren Indvik
      Auction hunter: under the hammer and over my budget

      ‘I made plenty of rookie mistakes last year so I reached out to art and antique dealers for advice to help me do better this year’

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Art in South-east Asia
      Artist Mit Jai Inn: ‘My work is a process, a living condition, not painting’

      His vivid, socially engaged work reflects on Thailand’s repressive politics and complex spirituality

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Art in South-east Asia
      ‘Museums aren’t the be-all’: inside Singapore’s independent art scene

      State funding made Singapore a market hub, but it’s the self-starting galleries which bring it to life

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Art in South-east Asia
      Gallerist Richard Koh: ‘Younger buyers are coming in — the idea of collecting is different’

      He has seen Singapore evolve into a livelier art centre through the pandemic, even if there are still limits to what you can say

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      FT Collecting Supplements
      Art in South-east Asia
    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Art in South-east Asia
      New Art SG fair reinforces Singapore’s growing art-world influence

      It has long trailed Hong Kong as an art-market centre but the city-state is riding a favourable wave

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Art in South-east Asia
      Artist Liu Kuo-Sung on his 70-year career marrying east and west

      Born in mainland China but schooled in Taiwan, he has won fans and ruffled feathers across the strait

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Art in South-east Asia
      Myanmar artists highlight history and struggle in Singapore Art Week

      Often working in exile or through symbols, they have to be careful in a post-coup landscape

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