Major acquisition by Smithsonian; antiquities at Christie’s; Hauser & Wirth in St Moritz; DiCaprio sale sobers up

Plus: artist to sell fake Swiss passports in London during Frieze Week; 20th-century Italian art dwindles; Bonhams is sold

A decade ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed; on the same day, Damien Hirst began a record auction. What happened next?

New Asian outpost for art fair group; auction sales looking good so far; Armory show cuts exhibitor costs; portraits sit pretty

Leisurely pace at Masterpiece fair; mid-market boost at London auctions; Turin collection goes to Rochdale

Plus: tired Impressionist and Modern auction at Sotheby’s; Africa gets first Yinka Shonibare public sculpture; charity targets social mobility

Record auction prices impact on Art Basel; Frieze New York feels the heat; attic find is a dream come true

Rockefeller Picasso at Basel museum; Gauguin group for sale; young buyers in Hong Kong

Digital revolution in prospect; Bonhams on the block again; buyers get political; collector offers alpine pilgrimage

‘Repos’ sells while ‘Marin’ suffers; Kerry James Marshall sets record; Photo London gets abstract; Prince Harry for sale

Super-seller Rockefeller; mega-sales hit profits; Edinburgh gallery’s new home; snapshots of May ’68

New York’s thirst for African-American artists; Hodgkin prints at auction; Gagosian gallery sued

Plus: collector sues Jeff Koons and the Gagosian; Diebenkorn collection comes to Christie’s; galleries share nicely in Cologne

Plus: online growth slows down; Warhol’s family sells ‘Marilyn portrait’; Marina Abramović at Masterpiece; late female artists recognised

Russian artist reigns supreme at Christie’s; Ropac secures Beuys estate; wide gender gap at UK’s auction houses

Plus: UK trade reacts to ivory ban; US collector turns to China; hopes from African art; mistaken identity at Leonardo auction?

High prices at Art Basel Hong Kong; Long Museum gets a Mark Bradford; Art Central highlights housing crisis

Plus, John McEnroe’s Mark Bradford painting returns to LA and Lévy Gorvy forms an advisory firm

Plus, Picasso leads the way; London’s new photo gallery; art fair in a Marrakesh hotel

Gallerist Almine Rech raises questions over the medium; row over museum sell-off; centenary show for Peter Lanyon; British art fair gets £1m

‘Helter Skelter I’ to be auctioned in London; New Delhi hosts India Art Fair; back to the futurists with Boccioni

Brussels gets busy; fresh rumours of LA move for Frieze; wool artist in New York; Derain for London sales

The trade gets the bitcoin bug; new openings in Geneva and Florence; rare chandelier at Sotheby’s

Treasure-hunt for London art-lovers; demise of key data source; glasnost under the hammer; Hirst’s spots counted