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The Art Market

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  • Thursday, 4 March, 2021
    Collecting
    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

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    Collecting
    Rancher’s collection spurs series of sales

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

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
    Collecting
    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
    Collecting
    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

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Collecting
    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

  • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
    Collecting
    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

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Collecting
    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, 14 January, 2021
    Collecting
    New era for augmented reality

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

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    ReviewCollecting
    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

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    Collecting
    Art market: Predictions for 2021

    Will full-scale fairs return? Can the mass move online sustain the market? And when will we see signs of recovery?

  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2020
    Collecting
    The stop-start year in art collecting

    Imaginative solutions have helped the market survive the unforeseeable events of 2020

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Collecting
    Old Masters bow to younger generation

    Silent nights at Old Masters auctions; 1-54 swaps Marrakesh for Paris; new map charts London’s emerging galleries

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    Collecting
    Galleries rise to a new reality

    Asia boosts business; tired auctions undershoot in New York; London gallery pairs fine art with handbags

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Collecting
    Magritte bought for £6,000 could fetch £15m

    Surrealist treats come to Christie’s; Ghana gets first artist residency; James Murdoch on board at MCH Group

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Collecting
    Galleries and auctions pivot to the southern hemisphere

    Reinventing the online wheel; Picasso case goes ahead despite controversy; report finds that gender bias worsens during Covid-19

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Collecting
    The art-buying habits of New Yorkers revealed

    Plus, real-life fairs delayed again; Pace moves into Blain|Southern space; Abu Dhabi tests virtual performance

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    Collecting
    Art world celebrates US election results

    Plus, collectors gift Brixton painting to Tate; Victoria Siddall moves to Frieze board; New York state sues Sotheby’s

  • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
    Collecting
    Giacometti sales show the opaque nature of high-end auctions

    MCH Group reaches agreement; England locks galleries down again; Ed Sheeran painting up for grabs

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Collecting
    Hard-hit museums warned over flood of public art sales

    Museum sales under pressure; London auctions fall again; Frieze moves — and shrinks — in New York

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    Collecting
    How green is your gallery? Art and the environment

    Also, Marina Abramović mixes reality at Christie’s, Trump painting sells well at Phillips and more

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
    Collecting
    Happy days for Phillips as TV producers’ Rockwell paintings go on offer

    Plus Miami Design District to host Art Basel galleries; spirits high at 1-54 fair

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    Collecting
    T-Rex is roaring success in Christie’s streamed auction

    Plus Gerhard Richter at Gagosian; Hauser & Wirth pick up Frank Bowling

  • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
    Collecting
    Art world moves in and out of the virtual realm

    Art Basel hosts mini-fair in Hong Kong; stakes climb for online fairs; Paula Rego goes to Victoria Miro gallery

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    ReviewCollecting
    Sotheby’s courts tastemakers with luxury shop in London

    Plus, Lisson Gallery tests Mayfair; Peter Doig at Christie’s; new fair for digital art; Covid-friendly gallery weekend in Berlin

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Collecting
    Saatchi — the next generation steps up

    Saatchi’s daughter opens a London gallery; Jerusalem’s Islamic art museum sells at Sotheby’s; Fortnum & Mason boss to head Hauser & Wirth; counting the art in storage

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