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Galleries dial it down for March fair; Frieze hires first CEO; Paris grabs bigger slice of auction market
Plus, avant-garde pianos in Berlin; Hauser & Wirth restructures; Mark Bradford raises $1m
Despite pre-Brexit jitters and the decline of some fairs, auctioneers still had plenty to celebrate
Christie’s goes green; UK election result boosts auctioneers; Metzinger’s cyclist speeds away; Christmas gets a dollop of sauce
Sotheby’s job cuts; stand-ups make art for charity; YBAs at Phillips; Schachter’s online clear-out
Snails and bananas in Miami; Galleria Continua to open in São Paulo; small is beautiful at London’s Old Masters auctions; mega sales in Paris
Stuart Shave to open third gallery in London; Russian avant-garde reigns supreme at Sotheby’s; Octopus Energy and Artfinder join forces for climate change project
Hologram will be first of its kind at auction; Los Angeles fair eyes the competition; China’s art in Abu Dhabi
Solid sales in NYC; performance in focus; looming ivory ban causes price drop; advice for struggling galleries
Plus: Old Masters hit highs; $31m for museum in China; book calls Germany to account; Brexit guide; blue bread in Turin
Also, new-model art fairs join forces in New York; safe works at Fiac but plenty of adventure elsewhere
Fairs change hands; spotlight on Hamdi Bey; mash-ups at Tefaf New York; Rockwell’s vaccination painting
Plus: Monet’s Charing Cross for New York; big-name sellers in London; Banksy lights up lacklustre week; surprise success in Hong Kong
Plus: Brexit sparks Paris push, Christie’s goes old-school and passports for sale in Vienna
Plus: Frieze’s augmented realities; dismal figures for female artists; how Albert Oehlen is testing painting’s limits
Also: Per Kirkeby’s bricks in Chicago; Charles White’s gun violence painting; test your art knowledge
Sterling Ruby curates online; Danish foundation in New York; a piece of Nelson’s watery coffin
All eyes on Asia; time to rethink KAWS?; Lehmann Maupin boosts London team; Copenhagen fair a firm favourite
Plus: Independent fair ends in Brussels; industrialist’s collection to Christie’s; bongs get high
Auction house also celebrates influence of wartime refugees; African-American art moves to Chicago
Mega-dealer to open Paris outpost; mixed fortunes for Old Masters; football fever at Christie’s
Plus: the ethics of selling refugee art; A-Rod’s painting goes unsold at auction; art’s healing powers; and the new London art fair FFS
Masterpiece news; surprise hits at auctions; attic Caravaggio sells privately; Frieze director goes to Goodman gallery; Timothy Taylor relocates
Plus: Christie’s tepid auction results, and Joburg fair in black ownership
Plus: big sales at Art Basel; Pride Sale marks Stonewall; Banksy at Heathrow
