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                • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Frieze reveals highlights, from £15mn Freud to stone-age axes

                  Man Ray’s non-existent objects go on show; Art Basel beefs up management — and Barry the dinosaur heads to Paris

                  A photograph of artist Lucian Freud holding his palette, painting a portrait of a middle-aged man sitting alongside the portrait on the easel
                • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Sotheby’s lands $400mn Emily Fisher Landau collection

                  Intimate Picassos offered by Ward Moretti; Christie’s set to make Paula Rego record; new ‘non-fair’ for London

                • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Freddie Mercury sale at Sotheby’s beats estimates as buyers want it all

                  Frieze fairs clash in New York and Seoul; Pace to open in Japan; Simon Lee’s artists find new homes

                  A man with a moustache stands on a street in Tokyo
                • Monday, 24 July, 2023
                  InterviewVisual Arts
                  Thaddaeus Ropac interview — from baffled boy to global gallerist

                  The Austrian has spent 40 years working with the world’s great artists, from Joseph Beuys to Jean-Michel Basquiat

                  A man in a jacket and white shirt stands in front of a large painting showing female facial features: lips, noses, eyes
                • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  New-look Art Basel team finds Miami director

                  Ibiza fair proves a tonic; Warhol silver works shine in Paris; Arab art gains ground

                • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Frieze buys The Armory Show and Expo Chicago fairs

                  Plus: auction sales down 18 per cent; Hirst to show new paintings next week; portraits lead Old Masters sales

                  Visitors mill about a brightly lit exhibition space with white walls and artwork on display
                • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Frieze’s 20th anniversary kicks off with adventurous sculpture show

                  Moretti to open in Paris; Marlborough trio set up new business; Prince Harry pricier than Angela Merkel

                  A tall mossy column stands against a green landscape
                • Friday, 30 June, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Sotheby’s Klimt gives London sales a record-breaking boost

                  Christie’s sells Signac after settlement agreement; report finds ‘flipped’ art doubled in 2022

                • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Swiss customs descend on Liste art fair’s VIP opening

                  Roving We Buy Gold show comes to two New York galleries; Paul Smith offers Banksy at Bonhams for £1.8mn

                • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Sunshine and sales at Art Basel

                  Design fair to open in Paris; Hirst helps demystify NFTs in new film; Sotheby’s offers Klimt for Europe’s highest auction estimate

                • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
                  ReviewCollecting
                  Art Basel opens with $60mn Rothko, influx from Asia and ripening pears

                  After an uncrowded VIP day, an early flurry of sales included a $22.5mn Louise Bourgeois spider

                • Friday, 9 June, 2023
                  Art Basel 2023
                  Art Basel’s Parcours section turns churches, tunnels and roundabouts into galleries

                  The group wants to entice people who wouldn’t normally visit an art fair, says curator Samuel Leuenberger

                  A man with a big quiff and glasses stands in the middle ground behind a large bush of pink roses
                • Friday, 9 June, 2023
                  Art Basel 2023
                  Collector Shane Akeroyd: ‘We are in a place of transition, a period of uncertainty’

                  The banker is contemplating his legacy while a shaky economy undermines the art market

                  A middle-aged man in a light blue shirt stands in his living room among artworks
                • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  White Cube joins march to Seoul

                  Tefaf’s challenges rage on; Arnold Lehman leaves Phillips with a 1970s send-off

                • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Stock exchange for art opens with $55mn Francis Bacon

                  Christie’s offers Basquiat painting of Picasso for £6.5mn; London Gallery Weekend boosts public programme

                • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Art market boom hits the buffers

                  $20mn Rothschild collection comes to auction; adviser Lisa Schiff faces lawsuits; rare books bring out the buyers

                  A man stands in front of a colourful colleages artwork on a silver wall in the gallery of an art fair
                • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
                  InterviewVisual Arts
                  Whitechapel Gallery’s Gilane Tawadros: ‘We need to be financially prudent but artistically brave’

                  After a rocky start, the new director of the London gallery is hoping a large grant and big plans will bring a bright future

                  A woman stands on the roof of a building with tall office buildings in the background
                • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  New York auctions get the jitters

                  Taipei fair back in force; Ortuzar Projects doubles space in Tribeca

                • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Venus Williams and a group of artists rally to save Nina Simone’s home

                  Photo London welcomes AI work; galleries open and close in London and New York; Fede Galizia flies the flag for female Old Masters

                • Monday, 8 May, 2023
                  InterviewCollecting
                  Eye of the Collector’s Nazy Vassegh: ‘I don’t need 150 galleries to sustain this model’

                  Her London mini-fair in a 19th-century mansion is trying to sidestep Brexit obstacles by being nimble

                  A woman stands on an outdoor staircase
                • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Flock of buyers expected for $30mn Rousseau flamingos

                  Report dissects private museums; Hoyland bought for £10 (and hoovered) offered for £5,000; Hirst buyers take a spin

                  A painting of flamingos stood at  the edge of a lake against the backdrop of a jungle
                • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Early Yayoi Kusama works come out of Dutch collection

                  Alison Jacques boosts Cork Street; Sotheby’s has Warner Records chief’s $120mn collection; gallery reopens in Kyiv

                • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Patrick Caulfield prints reveal unseen images

                  Young London gallery makes great strides; Phillips proves solid in new Hong Kong space; Dublin museum celebrates London dealer

                • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Art Basel/UBS report finds slowing growth despite big-ticket successes

                  China loses ground to UK as global art market hits $68bn

                  A traditional Persian rug which turns into an abstract splodge
                • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
                  The Art Market
                  Bumper New York sales feature $50mn collection

                  Nan Goldin goes to Gagosian; Andy Warhol Foundation hits $3mn through eBay; change of direction at Cromwell Place

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