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It’s a good job his stories earned a fortune because, as a new biography reveals, the author had very expensive tastes
From high-tech heists to antiquarian crime rings, this literary underworld would make a novel of its own
The Greek-Cypriot industrialist enjoys the first look of an ‘Apollo’ show in Hydra by the American artist and longtime associate
Also: Canadian private museum buys Kehinde Wiley series; Simon de Pury helps galleries cash in online; Koons sale raises nearly £10mn for Ukraine
The London-based fair returns after three years with ambitious plans for global growth, says its chief executive
Often overlooked as a minor part of their practice, jewels are attracting major market attention
Timothy Taylor goes big in New York; Mondrian show will boost market; Piano Nobile represents RB Kitaj
Earlier this year, we published our selection of member’s libraries around the globe. It promoted a flurry of responses regarding remarkable reading rooms. Here are some of your favourites…
A Bob Dylan recording, a Francis Bacon and a first edition annotated by Margaret Atwood are all going under the hammer this season
Conservator Katrina Redman saves jewels in danger of deterioration at the V&A
Collectors are getting wound up about chairs, tables and mirrors made from humble cord
The sixth-generation dealer in her family’s Parisian blue-chip gallery on adapting in a changing market and exhibiting at Tefaf
Artists at this year’s fair are taking a minimal approach to engaging with ecological issues and the natural world
In its 10th year, the Tefaf Museum Restoration Fund will help breathe fresh life into a Van Gogh masterpiece and a rare medieval Jewish manuscript
Demand is soaring and Gentileschi has become a household name — and many more are waiting to step into the spotlight
Opening a massive gallery in London devoted to Renaissance art is bold today, but he believes tastes are changing
Bourgeois spider sells for $40mn; challenge at Liste as gallery’s art locked in Shanghai; respite at the June Art Fair; Sotheby’s to offer Bacon painting of Freud for £35mn
The American explores new media and current issues — identity, freedom, healing — in his Hauser & Wirth show
From his gallery in a brutalist church, König has become one of the art world’s tastemakers
Its gallery in Menorca hosts student residencies and an extensive learning programme
Director Joanna Kamm says it’s the primary language of the younger generation the fair is targeting
The American uses rough, distressed elements in his large-scale works to speak of nature’s cycles and urban life
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