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  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
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    The Whitechapel Gallery — historic space, cutting edge

    Director Iwona Blazwick on the changing outlook for the East End institution as it approaches its 120th anniversary

  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    The Art Market
    New life for a venerable brand

    Buyer in the frame for Marlborough galleries; established artists go Non-Fungible; new heights for Winston Churchill’s art and more

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
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    Roll back the gears: Japanese classic motorcycles zoom back into focus

    Nostalgia-fuelled thrill seekers are snapping up ’70s and ’80s models at a pace

  • Monday, 1 March, 2021
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    Pulane Kingston on collecting black African female artists

    The South African businesswoman and lawyer discusses seeking out works by women from across the continent

  • Sunday, 28 February, 2021
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    Gross domestic products: British art pottery so ugly it’s highly sought after

    Steeped in gothic fantasy, these Victorian grotesques are firing up today’s collectors

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
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    The art insider’s guide to Italy

    The brainchild of the director of Gagosian Rome, Italics is a trove of unique experiences and undiscovered places to delight and inspire

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
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    Me, my shelf and I: the best new art books

    Bring the gallery home this spring

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    The Art Market
    Rancher’s collection spurs series of sales

    White Cube launches secondary market project; southern hemisphere platform kicks off; Jewish émigré artists at Bonhams

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    South South — a collective voice for disparate cultures

    Collaborative digital platform aims to create a commercial and cultural showcase for the creativity of the Global South

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  • Saturday, 20 February, 2021
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    Highlights from Collect Craft Fair’s online debut with Artsy

    Craft has made an unexpected digital transition in the past year – and this could be its greatest moment

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    The Art Market
    Christie’s gets digital with the art world’s non-fungible craze

    Plus: Hauser & Wirth Menorca to open with Mark Bradford; Frieze launches gallery space in London; rare Zodiac basin leads Sotheby’s Islamic sale; Calida Rawles joins Lehmann Maupin

  • Thursday, 11 February, 2021
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    Damien Hirst takes over Gagosian London

    ‘Ghost booths’ at Art Basel Hong Kong spark uncertainty; Steve Martin supports indigenous art; confidence falls for new work

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    How To Spend It
    Smaller is beautiful: the tiny but triumphant comeback of art miniatures

    Often no bigger than a thumbnail or a matchbox, these little marvels are the subject of a new obsession

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    The Art Market
    A tale of Churchill, Roosevelt — and Angelina Jolie

    Hollywood star sells wartime painting; Amanda Gorman portrait goes to Harvard; Botticelli dominates patchy Sotheby’s sale

  • Monday, 1 February, 2021
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    Kavita Chellaram: an art collector’s tale of three cities

    With collections in London, Lagos and Mumbai, Kavita Chellaram is on a mission to bring African art to a wider audience

  • Saturday, 30 January, 2021
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: January
    On the money: coin-based jewellery pieces boost business for designers

    Rising prices are increasing the appeal of this style

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
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    From forgeries to Covid-denial, Tim Harford on how we fool ourselves

    Whether believing implausible statistics or falling for frauds, humans are addicted to wishful thinking

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    The Art Market
    The case of the receding art fairs

    Date of fairs pushed back; Independent at NY’s Cipriani; social media sells better than art fairs; Charles Ede’s 50th

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
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    US in Paris climate accord, ECB shift, art market 

    The US will rejoin the Paris climate accord — what happens now?

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    The Art Market
    Fine private collections fuel the market

    Works spanning Van Gogh to Freud set for a $16m sale; California vineyard owners buy through lockdown; Old Masters dominate in January; Masterpiece fair investigates materials

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
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    How To Give It: four fundraisers art and fashion fans will love

    Paintings, photography, music – and dinner in Azzedine Alaïa’s kitchen are all going up for grabs

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    The Art Market
    New era for augmented reality

    AR art appeals; Foundation warns of Josef Albers forgeries; war-torn artists at Sotheby’s; Pace signs Brazilian painter

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
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    The new age (not that sort) of crystals

    With the finest specimens now selling for more than $2m, a different kind of collector is joining the “rockhounds” and spiritualists

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    ReviewThe Art Market
    A pool of talent in hard times

    Galleries pool water-themed exhibitions; trade awaits Brexit red tape; Hong Kong overtakes London at auction; quiltmakers sell to major museums

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    How To Spend It
    How the hurdy-gurdy went hardcore

    Part violin, part bagpipes... the duck-billed platypus of instruments is enjoying an extraordinary revival

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