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The new Sotheby’s is coming
US vs China: who’s afraid of the trade war?
Hong Kong: breaking records and windows
Is a return to the Belgian art’s “Golden Age” possible?
Deloitte publishes 6th Art & Finance Report
Napoleon I for ever
Both adulated and hated, nearly two centuries after going the way of all flesh the Emperor continues to be talked about and to drive the market wild.…
Empire furniture
A style described by Gustave Flaubert as "imposing and diplomatic" in L’Éducation sentimentale.
District 13 Urban Art Fair: already an institution
The District 13 – International Art Fair returns to Drouot with a specialised selection of international galleries, establishing itself as a solid…
An outpost in Versailles for the Osenat auction house
Fontainebleau, Paris, and now Versailles: Jean-Pierre Osenat aims to bring the 17 th and 18 th centuries back into the limelight by setting up in the…
Masterpiece 2019: ending the season on a high note
Many exhibitors at Masterpiece, the last international fair before the summer break, are likely to go on holiday with a song in their hearts.
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Giordano: the many-facetted artist on show in Paris
Cologne Fine Art: a successful new-look edition
Bells: luxury items since the Bronze Age
Playing a good hand
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New representation for Bram Bogart’s estate and Avery Singer
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Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka opens
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Organisers of Art Berlin cancel fair over poor financial results and venue difficulties
12 December 2019 - 14:47
KAWS features among four new trustees to American Folk Art Museum board
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Fairs
Cologne Fine Art: a successful new-look edition
Under the leadership of Daniel Hug, the COFAD had a decidedly more…
Market Trends
The new Sotheby’s is coming
Patrick Drahi bought Sotheby's for $3.7 billion, but what are the…
A break in the tribal art market
seems to be running out of steam. What lies behind this stagnation, and is it a cause for concern? A few possible answers.
Buying Sotheby’s? What an odd idea!
On Monday 17 June, the art world awoke in a state of shock. Businessman Patrick Drahi, who until then had shown little interest in auction houses,…
Zhang Daqian: record-setting artist
Very few know his name in the West… but in 2016, sales of his paintings totted up a grand total of $355 million.
"Turquin Caravaggio": Not Toulouse, but Fifth Avenue
In the end, the "Turquin Caravaggio" was not put on sale at the Toulouse Corn Exchange on Thursday as planned. In the late afternoon of Tuesday 25…