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    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Lauren Indvik
      When an auction hunter becomes an auction seller

      ‘My eye has sharpened and my tastes have evolved. Then there’s the fact that I’m nearly out of funds’

    • 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
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
      The cult cool of Japanese lifestyle magazines

      Growing interest in Popeye, Casa Brutus, Go Out et al is bordering on obsessive

      Back issues from the author’s collection of Japanese magazines
    • 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

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      HTSI
      Why do we collect clothes?

      As archival fashion becomes more sought after, a new book explores the ‘hoard mentality’

      Charlie Casely-Hayford in Hackney, London, wearing a suit by his own label
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Interiors
      Venice Glass Week seeks to reforge Murano’s creativity

      The city’s sixth week-long celebration of the art form looks back to past masters and forward to the medium’s future

      Four glass works on a table, two with long, curved necks
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      FT SeriesWomen’s fashion special AW23
      Why Gucci is a GGood investment

      A new exhibition – and creative director – have fuelled fresh interest in the brand’s archive

      Gucci magazine advert from 1995
    • 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
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      HTSI
      Nordic glassware comes in from the cold

      The region’s radical postwar designs are niche no more

    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Art from across the world meets Moorish architecture at Mallorca’s Jakober Foundation

      Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu’s gloriously eclectic collection stages a meeting of cultures, styles and eras

    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Two people look at a screenprint of a blonde woman with bright red lips
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Frieze Seoul director Patrick Lee on why the fair is a ‘platform for Asia’

      Now an anchor for the city’s art week, Frieze returns with more regional galleries and a bigger events programme

      A man in a blue suit with glasses looks intent in front of a black and red painting
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Frieze Seoul goes multidisciplinary with film and music programmes

      Four non-profit spaces show video works by 14 artists, while singer-songwriter Colde puts on a concert

      Gallery installation of a long screen showing tinted scenes from urban life
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Artist Zadie Xa: ‘I’m drawn to wayward creatures’

      From nine-tailed foxes to a creature modelled after her dog, Xa uses unusual animals to explore human society

      A woman with long straight hair and glasses wears a green-orange jacket and stands in front of a purple cloudy painted sky
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023: what you need to know

      From must-see highlights of the art fair’s second edition to which gallery shows in the city not to miss

      Two people look at brightly-coloured semi-abstract paintings on the white walls of an art fair
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      When the arts world goes green

      Novelists raging against sponsors should be mindful of unintended consequences

      The Edinburgh International Book Festival 2023 in Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      FT SeriesA summer motoring special
      The fast and furious battle to bag a Toyota Supra

      The star of the film franchise makes for a great – and souped-up – daily drive

      An A80 facing off with a Ferrari in The Fast and the Furious, 2001
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Architecture
      The boom in Seoul’s corporate museums

      South Korea’s burgeoning commercial gallery scene has led to the creation of architecturally adventurous buildings

      A pond of water under a building shaped like a cube
    • 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

    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      FT WealthStefan Wagstyl
      Wealthy collectors seem undeterred by global turmoil

      Art buyers were spending more last year than they did before Covid-19 hit

    • 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
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      HTSI
      The lost artworks of Les Lalanne

      The work of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne had apparently all been accounted for – until 19 pieces were discovered behind a small wooden door

      Pomme de Londres by Claude Lalanne, estimate €600,000-€800,000
    • 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
    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      HTSI
      HTSI editor’s letter: in the hood at Alaïa

      Pieter Mulier’s ambitious vision, the squeaky charm of Sylvanian families – and the foods we love to hate

      Beauise Ferwerda wears Alaïa fluid jersey hooded Deesse dress, £2,480
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