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Plus: big sales at Art Basel; Pride Sale marks Stonewall; Banksy at Heathrow
Also: Modigliani boy at Sotheby’s and South Africa’s Goodman Gallery in London
Man Ray catalogue; Marlborough gallery streamlines business; optimism rules in Beijing
More than $1.7bn of art was sold in four days — but the picture is more fragmented than the numbers suggest
Plus: taboo painting of homosexuality for sale; supersized works for Basel Miami; and innovation at Photo London
Plus: online gallery deal stumbles; Frieze and Tefaf fairs coexist in New York; Phyllida Barlow makes pom-poms for Masterpiece
Plus: Raphael under the radar; change at Photo London; Brussels gets ‘woke’
Plus: China’s galleries take on western artists; blockchain-backed art registry secures $7.3m; collectors give €300m to Notre-Dame
Plus: Phillips boosts digital art; Sotheby’s Chatsworth shows cancelled; phoney fairy photos for sale
Plus: Frans Hals dispute partly settled; a cartoon for our times
Plus: Sotheby’s secures prized Francis Bacon; Democratic donor offers photographs at Phillips
Plus: accused jeweller’s art for sale; mixed results for George Michael’s collection
Plus: sprightly start to contemporary auctions; London gallery decamps to New York
Plus: Magritte outshines Monet; Masterpiece fair set to launch a mini-version in Hong Kong; legal wrangles at Tefaf
Plus: Mary Boone prison sentence means galleries must close; Bonhams takes African art to New York; Frank Stella’s collection at Christie’s
Plus: George Michael’s collection goes to auction; Rothko on sale for up to $50m; LA Frieze opens; FBI looks into money laundering in the art market
Galleries, news and sales results from Hong Kong, New York and London — plus the story of an egg
Plus: London gallerist Richard Saltoun to show only women for a year; Frieze LA subsidises local talent
Plus: western galleries prepare for the Taipei Dangdai fair; Stik street art restored; Thomas Dane and Simon Preston team up
Gimmicks dominated the art scene but some technological changes have genuine potential
Crypto platform plans another offering; Alpine fair rethinks timing; art sale to benefit refugees
Christie’s secures another Hockney hit; Brexit concerns for March sales; new life in Old Masters
Also: record price for Hitler’s Ruisdael; women take the lead in London
Plus: Medieval forgeries for show; Pace steps up in New York; momentum builds at fee-free auction business
New York auctions; Texas museum gets photo gift; Christie’s head of postwar art steps down; bother at Be Uri; Italian bank values its art
