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The chief executive of the London art fair talks about international expansion and balancing luxury and gravitas
Plus: Christie’s tepid auction results, and Joburg fair in black ownership
Championed by Max Ernst and Sol LeWitt in 1960s, the 82-year-old’s first ever museum show opens in Switzerland
Plus: big sales at Art Basel; Pride Sale marks Stonewall; Banksy at Heathrow
Visitors to art galleries often feel they have to whisper. The Swiss curator explains why they behave differently at fairs
Also: Modigliani boy at Sotheby’s and South Africa’s Goodman Gallery in London
Meet the people who are trying to make art — and art fairs — greener
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: Artvest sells stake in Tefaf New York; Blum & Poe takes on Harvey Quaytman; book explores geometry in Middle Eastern art
Plus: Raphael under the radar; change at Photo London; Brussels gets ‘woke’
An eager clientele can make a good business case for free public displays
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
Sales weren’t thick and fast at the satellite fair’s 2019 edition, but dealers did well at the lower price range
Plus: Sotheby’s secures prized Francis Bacon; Democratic donor offers photographs at Phillips
Adeline Ooi on changing tastes in the region and why she remains optimistic despite China’s economic slowdown
Plus: accused jeweller’s art for sale; mixed results for George Michael’s collection
Plus: Alternative plans work well for Volta and Armory shows
The veteran dealer discusses this love of older art and the decision to let go of some of his prized works
Christophe Van de Weghe, the fair’s chairman of Modern, discusses the challenge of luring the next generation of buyers
Increasing visibility fails to boost value of works by women
