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Cheap money and a hybrid model have benefited the salerooms, but galleries and art fairs face stiffer winds
In a year of tech innovation, buyers and sellers have had to grapple with new systems of value and ownership — or lose out
Mucha gets the NFT treatment; Magritte’s torso sells for $10m; Ed Vaizey backs the repatriation of Elgin Marbles
Satellite fair success; South South platform seeks to evolve; Gagosian gains new China rep; Old Masters sales in London
NFT art collection in dispute; auction sales set to double this year; Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty; Frieze hires new US head; Catherine the Great’s vaccination letter for sale
Masterworks snaps up $500m of works this year; Art Basel reveals take-up of solidarity fund; Lehmann Maupin expands in Seoul
O’Keeffe’s Hawaiian painting at Phillips; Renaissance rediscoveries at Colnaghi; Sean Kelly opens in LA — and keeps it in the family
Tokyo Art Week’s first show; NFT artists mostly ‘white and male’; book explores museum founders’ motivations
Beirut gallery back on its feet; linked shows for Rochelle Feinstein; advice for artists and estates; reappraised painting hits the jackpot
Banksy’s former agent opens merchandise outlet; Untitled Art Fair cuts costs for emerging sellers; Ron Mueck show at Thaddaeus Ropac
Centuries of climate concern at Frieze; Brooklyn Museum and LACMA share female photographer collection; LA’s David Kordansky expands to New York
Salvator Mundi dealer claims victory; Frida Kahlo work aims for record; Thaddaeus Ropac gallery hires head of Asia; Ben Nicholson acquisition for Hepworth Wakefield
Exhibitors welcome return of fairs; Edel Assanti gallery doubles up; Raducanu brings it home — for Frieze’s owner
Hockney garden pic hits the block; Art Basel creates ‘solidarity fund’ for dealers; Manhattan gallery marks 9/11
London landmark as a gallery in disguise; rent-to-buy art scheme; Luciano Fabro in the spotlight; and a chance to Frieze your heart
New podcast from Art Basel; John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem comes to the UK; Paradise Row gallery returns; Frieze lose US director
Leonardo bear makes auction record; hybrid art business here to stay; $25m Clyfford Still heads to Aspen
Guaranteed price boosts Christie’s Picasso sale; performance art in London and Paris; Christo project to go ahead
Prince Harry finds favour at Sotheby’s; Grenfell Auction donation gets re-sold; Harper’s gallery keeps growing; London’s National Gallery opens to young patrons
Tottenham Hotspur scores a gallery; NFT sales fall; transatlantic shows for Leon Kossoff; Sotheby’s heads to Monaco
Art lending extended; Julie Mehretu piece breaks records for Artsy; Masterpiece Online shrugs off UK’s extended lockdown; Michel Périnet’s collection for sale
Art Basel gets physical; London Gallery Weekend a hit; galleries to dot London arcade; landmark show of African American artists revived
Anti-money laundering rules loom; Mickalene Thomas on show; Iranian art online; dealers as holograms; and a famous ‘Mona Lisa’ copy
Digital boosts physical at London gallery; Contemporary Art Society opens summer space; Art Basel brings in the Hong Kong crowds; Baldessari estate chooses Sprüth Magers; gothic casket makes auction record in Scotland
Market moves to Asia; art fairs pool resources in London and Chicago; Paris opens up with vigour
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