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    • 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

    • 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

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      The Art Market
      ‘Glittering smokescreen’ of auction highs masks a nervous market

      Record 20th year for Artcurial; another Paul Allen Canaletto on the block; Modern Art to exhibit Dutch artist René Daniëls

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      The Art Market
      Auction sales slide in Hong Kong

      Asia stalwart Patti Wong leaves Sotheby’s; Frank Auerbach on the rise; Danish hidden gem at Christie’s

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      ReviewThe Art Market
      Is the art market finally cooling?

      Collections sell well but New York auctions show signs of slowing; Gagosian gathers outside expertise; Shanghai fairs close early due to zero-Covid policy

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      The Art Market
      Dealers delighted with debut of Paris+ par Art Basel

      Plus: museums step in at Hôtel Lambert sale; solid auctions in London; handsome African art fair

    • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
      The Art Market
      Sotheby’s gets $100mn collection of postwar art

      Paul Allen’s works revealed; Arne Glimcher opens ‘selfish dream’ gallery; dealer pleads guilty in $86mn fraud

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      The Art Market
      Sotheby’s takes on galleries with new primary-market channel

      All the buzz from Frieze Seoul; UK fair organiser urges new government to undo Brexit hurdles

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Collecting
      Works of a great collector, from jade and rare Chinese porcelain to Degas and Vuillard

      Spectacular collections in the London home of the late businessman and philanthropist Sir Joseph Hotung

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      ObituaryLily Safra
      Lily Safra, philanthropist and art collector, 1934-2022

      The much-married socialite was known for using her powerful status to further her charitable endeavours

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      The Art Market
      New York auctions dominate record first half of 2022

      Luxembourg + Co opens in Fuller Building; Perrotin doubles up in Seoul; slim Old Masters sales

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      Collecting
      London sales show signs of buyer fatigue

      UK works sell well at Masterpiece; African art at Christie’s; Hôtel Lambert trove; new fair director at Art Basel; Deborah Roberts piece helps charity

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Masterpiece London 2022
      Jewellery by artists from Picasso to Grayson Perry reaches new heights

      Often overlooked as a minor part of their practice, jewels are attracting major market attention

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      The Art Market
      New York auction season ends with record $2.5bn total

      Christie’s has Yves Klein for London; Inigo Philbrick gets seven years in prison; sellout booths at Frieze NY

    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Macklowe art collection brings in record $922mn haul at auction

      Second tranche of works sold by Sotheby’s indicates valuations remain high

    • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
      Music
      The Sex Pistols: from filth and fury to Disney and Sotheby’s

      A TV bio-series and upcoming auction may upset punk purists, but the group themselves made a mockery of the concept of ‘selling out’

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      The Art Market
      Rediscovered Egon Schiele painting to become an NFT

      Female collectors dominate at Christie’s; demand for art still strong in Hong Kong; Gagosian and White Cube agree to share

    • Tuesday, 19 April, 2022
      Stanley Gibbons Group PLC
      Stanley Gibbons expects inflation boost to dealing in stamps and coins

      UK collectibles group says real assets could appreciate as investors hedge against rising prices

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
      Football
      Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ shirt to be auctioned for up to an estimated £6mn

      England player Steve Hodge to sell jersey given to him by football superstar after 1986 World Cup match

    • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
      The Art Market
      Auction houses to ride the boom in 2022

      Cheap money and a hybrid model have benefited the salerooms, but galleries and art fairs face stiffer winds

    • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
      The Art Market
      No NFT, no comment — how digital art dominated 2021

      In a year of tech innovation, buyers and sellers have had to grapple with new systems of value and ownership — or lose out

    • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
      The Art Market
      Stormtrooper ‘Art Wars’ sparks legal action

      NFT art collection in dispute; auction sales set to double this year; Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty; Frieze hires new US head; Catherine the Great’s vaccination letter for sale

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      Citadel LLC
      Griffin buys copy of US constitution after bidding war with crypto traders

      Citadel founder pays $43.2m for document and will display it in Walmart heir’s museum

    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      Macklowe divorce art collection sells for $676m in blockbuster auction

      Demand eclipses expectations after couple were forced to sell trove of works acquired over years

    • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
      The Art Market
      Death and divorce drive multimillion-dollar auctions

      Tokyo Art Week’s first show; NFT artists mostly ‘white and male’; book explores museum founders’ motivations

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