Art

Dubai has made recent headlines as a haven for wealthy Russians since the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Unlike Western countries, the United Arab Emirates has not imposed sanctions on Russia, with the share of private jets flying from Russia to the UAE increasing from 3% to 14% between March and June 2022. The Art Basel […]

Read our round-up of the most interesting fairs in the coming year here. SEA Focus, Singapore, 6-15 January Este Arte, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 7-10 January Art SG, Singapore, 12-15 January London Art Fair, UK, 18-22 January Fog Design + Art, San Francisco, US, 19-22 January Original Miami Beach Antique Show, Miami Beach, US, 19-23 […]

See our full list of art fairs around the world in 2023. Art SGSingapore, 12-15 January Tokyo Gendai Tokyo, Japan, 7-9 July This year sees the much-anticipated launch of two major international fairs in East Asia: Tokyo Gendai and Singapore’s Art SG. The former looks set to benefit from Japan having eased some of its […]

Hans Mayer, the German dealer credited with introducing European audiences to post-war US artists, has died aged 82. His gallery confirmed his death via an Instagram post. The US artist Robert Longo, who is represented by Mayer, wrote on social media: “We have lost a… brilliant art dealer and a great friend.” Mayer came from […]

Two major High Court legal rulings in December have raised questions around presale practices and dealers’ duty of care to clients. In a decision that shook some in the sector, a High Court judge ruled that John Eskenazi, a leading London-based specialist in ancient Asian art, had negligently sold the Qatari Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah […]

Yayoi Kusama’s You, Me and the Balloons heads to Manchester’s Factory International this June Pictured: Yayoi Kusama and Dots Obsession (1996-2011) at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo © Yayoi Kusama, courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner

Peter Paul Rubens, The Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome (1609) Baroque: Masterpieces from the Fisch Davidson Collection, Sotheby’s, New York, 26 January Estimate: $25m to $35m This large-scale painting made the then-record for Rubens after it was rediscovered in 1998 and sold the same year for $5.5m at Sotheby’s, New York. […]

Singapore is on full throttle this month thanks to the highly anticipated launch of international art fair ART SG, scheduled to run from 11 to 15 January at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, in the city’s business district and tourist-filled bayfront area. Organised by The Art Assembly, which operates a portfolio of fairs […]

The forthcoming edition of the London art and antiques fair Masterpiece, which was planned for 28 June to 5 July, has been cancelled by its owners, the Swiss events company MCH Group, which also runs Art Basel. “Escalating costs and a decline in the number of international exhibitors mean that the event is not commercially […]

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (Bada), the Society of London Art Dealers (Slad) and the Association of Art and Antiques Dealers (Lapada) have jointly commissioned a series of training videos on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) legislation. The resources are being created by the art compliance specialist Rakhi Talwar, who worked with the trade bodies previously on […]