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The Art Market

  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    When dinosaurs rule the world of collecting

    There has been a surge in private buyers of dinosaur fossils — but experts urge caution

  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Hauser & Wirth Gallery Ltd
    Hauser & Wirth owners join wealthy UK exodus with move to Switzerland

    Iwan and Manuela Wirth relocated in June after two decades in the UK

    Interior view of the artwork ‘Maman’ by Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern gallery of contemporary art in London, United Kingdom. This sculpture of a giant mother spider was the first exhibit commission in the Turbine Hall when Tate Modern opened for the first time 25 years ago
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Why art dealers are up in arms at the EU’s new anti-terror legislation

    Cultural property laws that come into force this week have been condemned as ‘stupid’ and ‘absurd’

  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Banksy
    London club claims Banksy street art unlawfully removed to America

    Work was offered for sale in Colorado, lawsuit claims

    Banksy artwork in Bethnal Green
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    Can AI tell us how much art is really worth?

    New businesses such as Appraisal Bureau are bringing greater efficiency to buying art

  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    How Indigenous art became in demand

    Works from previously overlooked communities are gaining in prominence, raising questions of cultural respect and financial fair share

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    The art world’s next big thing? A shopping centre in Croydon

    For pioneering gallerist Gavin Brown, a downtrodden retail complex in south London is the perfect spot for a summer show of video works

    A man stands between large vertical slabs in an art gallery, his hands behind his back
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Collecting
    Why should you care about Giacometti’s $70mn auction flop?

    The season’s top lot provoked gasps at Sotheby’s when it failed to sell — but there are worrying implications beyond the high-end art market

    A bronze sculpture of a man’s elongated head and shoulders
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Art Basel launches new art fair in Qatar

    The fair will run in February 2026 and cements the Middle East as the next frontier in the global art market

    Image of a white building marked ‘M7’ with a line of trees leading up to it
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Should holy relics be put up for sale? The market for sacred artefacts is an ethical minefield

    Sotheby’s has postponed its sale of gems linked to the remains of the Buddha, in a case that has sparked legal and moral debates

  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    Would you buy a Picasso via an app?

    Art market players are searching for new ways to win audience attention in a stressed and saturated market

    A painting depicts the distorted head of a man who smiles and smokes a pipe
  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
    Frieze New York 2025
    From Barbadian silk paintings to painstaking ink-wash — these are the New York debuts to watch

    The Independent fair has a reputation for career-making starts — this year it’s looking for the next generation of stars

    A blonde woman in orange-framed glasses, wearing a black sweater and wide-legged black trousers
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    Ariel Emanuel
    Ari Emanuel to buy Frieze art fairs from Endeavor

    The Hollywood powerbroker has created a global events company to acquire the fair and publishing group

    Ari Emanuel
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Funding London’s art schools: is this £6mn donation a blueprint for future philanthropy?

    A major gift from arts donor Peter L Kellner comes at a vital time for Goldsmiths, whose alumni include Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Steve McQueen

    A framed red painting has four neat vertical slashes in the canvas
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    How to ship a priceless work of art

    Keeping art on the move — and intact — costs an estimated $100bn every year. The experts explain how it’s done

    A workman in a crane helps guide a huge metal sculpture into position
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Magritte takes Picasso’s crown — seven lessons from a tough year for the art market

    International art sales have slumped, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report finds — with fears that tariffs will have a seismic impact

  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Photography
    Photo London turns 10 — and eyes a new class of collector

    As the fair returns to Somerset House for its anniversary edition, the founders reflect on new discoveries — and new patrons

    A man sits beside a steamed-up window, with red and yellow colours glimpsed behind
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Money laundering
    Top art galleries fined for money-laundering failures

    Penalties from UK tax authority come as market prepares for sanctions compliance obligations

    The White Cube gallery in Bermondsey, London
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    A mysterious $100mn trove of rare coins — hidden from the Nazis — to be auctioned

    Amassed by an obsessive connoisseur dubbed ‘The Traveller’, it is the most valuable collection of its kind to be sold at auction

    A number of gold coins on a black surface
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    How Picasso became the ultimate prize for China’s new collectors

    In recent years, major works have gone to private buyers in Asia — a new exhibition puts the artist’s relationship with the region in the spotlight

    Cubist painting by Picasso of. young woman, using distorted angles and viewpoints, with the face painted in shades of yellow and green, against orange walls
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Financials
    Art lenders issue margin calls as painting prices fall

    Borrowers asked to compensate for decline in collateral by swapping in more expensive artwork or supplying cash

    Christie’s displays Antonio Canova’s marble statue Maddalena Giacente (Recumbent Magdalene) and Lucas Cranach the Elder’s painting The Nymph of the Spring in 2022 when both are up for auction
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Visual Arts
    JR is a street art sensation — but his market value remains an enigma

    The self-styled ‘photograffeur’ orchestrates public spectacles and is big on social media — so why are his sales relatively low-key?

    Black and white photo of a child, blown up to a monumental scale, seen from above in a brown and green landscape
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    The recipe for art auction success? Surrealism — and Instagram-friendly painting

    Despite turbulent times, the repeated mantra through the London salesrooms was that ‘good things will still sell’

    Painting of a woman reclining smoking a Marlboro Red cigarette
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    FT Collecting Supplements
    Tefaf Maastricht 2025

    As the art and antiques fair returns, we look at the world’s most beautiful book, the future of museum philanthropy and new EU controls on cultural goods

    Battle scene depicted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Tefaf Maastricht 2025
    Why the art trade should learn to love forensics

    Forgers know how to exploit a business which prefers gentlemen’s agreements to scientific analysis. Authentification requires more rigour

    A bronze head facing a machine with various needle-like points aimed at it
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