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The events, people and trends shaping the art market this season
The highlights, themes and trends — plus sales reports from the fairs
The African-American painter on stereotypes, the western canon and who decides market value
The African-American artist comments on museum culture, on value in art, and the market
Major acquisition by Smithsonian; antiquities at Christie’s; Hauser & Wirth in St Moritz; DiCaprio sale sobers up
What to see in and around this year’s Pavilion of Art and Design fair
A guide to the issues, market trends and people who shape the fair
The International Training Programme is an initiative to spread the institution’s know-how around the world
London’s V&A is determined to make the case for games as important design objects
A decade ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed; on the same day, Damien Hirst began a record auction. What happened next?
The technology could improve efficiency and transparency but it poses questions about the future of dealers and auction houses
New Asian outpost for art fair group; auction sales looking good so far; Armory show cuts exhibitor costs; portraits sit pretty
Swiss U-turn; success breeds success; female photographers in Paris; rock-star treatment
‘Things are moving relatively fast for an industry bound by tradition’
Plus: Instagram makes sales at Tefaf; virtual reality in Lagos; Ropac to represent Judd Foundation in Europe
The photographer stood ‘in the shadow of a great tree’, her husband Henri Cartier-Bresson, but a Paris exhibition aims to change that
The Turin art fair’s separate venue gives the works the space they need
The contemporary art sale will support Aids programmes in sub-Saharan Africa
The film explores why some artists succeed and others fail in this peculiar ecosystem
Liquidation in London; artist gets back at Louis Vuitton; Modern Couples in the spotlight; Gentileschi still on trend
The reworked space intriguingly embraces the camera as object, as well as images themselves
Plus, Milan dealer changes tack; Robin Williams sale; Grayson Perry’s treasure hunt
Has the street artist’s most audacious prank shredded the credibility of the art market?
Stunt or performance art, fate of painting risks reinforcing suspicions over auctions
Activist street artist’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ sells for £1m at Sotheby’s — then gets shredded
Plus: Hong Kong-born artist Wong Ping wins the Camden Arts Centre Emerging Arts Prize
Political work and street art is on offer at a more affordable level
Across different media and imagery, the figure has remained a constant theme in his work
The Swiss artist weaves together the concerns of Francesca Woodman and Rachel Whiteread: spaces, skins and the psyche
Striking booths proliferate; Rybolovlev sues; Tefaf ‘recalibrates’
The jewellery designer’s new pieces are arresting hybrids of ornament and object, industrial manufacturing and handmade artisanship
It also purchased two works by multimedia artist Zadie Xa
The French conceptualist’s exhibition is as dramatic as anything he has made
Among the razzle-dazzle, it is the quieter works that stand out
Speakers included Richard Rogers, Shigeru Ban, Jamie Fobert and Ellen van Loon
The award-winning 27-year-old novelist on sex, class and the internet in fiction
The artist on the link between rave culture and the UK miners' strike
