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The Art Market

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Paul Anthony Smith on finding photos and piercing paintings

    The Jamaican-born artist uses a technique called picotage to makes his work shimmer

    2 hours ago
    A man standing in front of a large painting of wildflowers, plants and long grass
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Artist Lawrence Lek is using AI to explore whether robots can suffer

    The winner of the Frieze Artist award 2024 has created a ‘carebot’ with emotional problems

    Man sits on a rug in an unfurnished room, with cardboard boxes and a computer screen on the floor behind him
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Restrictive EU law could benefit London’s Asian art scene

    Art from ancient to new is being sold in galleries, auction houses and Frieze Masters this autumn

    Stylised Japanese painting  of a green, grassy mountain, topped with dark blue forest, with white clouds over the top
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Collector Kiran Nadar on Indian art and building museums

    Her 15,000 artworks range from the Bombay Progressives to Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor

    Smiling lady in a colourful, striped dress in front of art hanging on the wall
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: ‘We felt that anything we saw in art history, we could also do’

    The couple’s commission for Art on the Underground is an ambitious mosaic in St James’s Park station

    Two women in an art studio embrace, both seated behind a partially made wooden frame for a canvas painting
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Curator Pablo José Ramírez: ‘Art history doesn’t belong exclusively to the western world’

    His new section at Frieze London brings together Indigenous and diaspora artists, with a focus on clay

    A man seated, wearing tinted glasses, a black polo-neck sweater and a dark navy blue suit
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Frieze Focus places emerging artists centre stage

    The section features helium-propelled penguins and alabaster creatures

    Dozens of small, cartoonish, inflatable penguins are dotted around the floor of an art gallery, all facing in different directions
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    The search for Japan’s ‘lost’ art

    A museum closure has shone a light on the vast collections acquired during the bubble years — and warned companies that change is coming

    A female tourist wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a backpack takes a photo on her smartphone of an abstract sculpture outside the wall of a museum
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Economic and political challenges threaten London’s art market

    The Frieze art fairs return as global sales fall and costs rise, but organisers have plans to increase attractiveness

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
    Gallerist Maureen Paley: ‘I want to keep things to a more intimate scale’

    The New Yorker has witnessed London’s art market grow from quiet origins into a high-octane scene over the past 40 years

    A woman with dark hair, in sunglasses, leaning against a mantel shelf, wearing a long black frock coat, black trousers, a white top and a red scarf
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Designer Ori Orisun Merhav is bringing shellac back

    She uses beetle secretion to blow amber bulbs for her rococo lights

    A young women in a sleeveless white top, a long, terracotta-coloured skirt and heeled mules leans against a crumbling plaster and bare-brick wall. She holds two bird-like forms made up of multiple amber-coloured bubbles
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Substack is design journalism’s irreverent new home

    Newsletters such as Snake, Ground Condition and For Scale are providing independent views on what’s worth buying

    A busy illustration showing various furniture items and electronic symbols
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Collector Luca Bombassei on his love of the Memphis Group’s Ettore Sottsass

    The architect and art patron has filled his Venetian palazzo with surprising contrasts

    A man with grey hair, wearing glasses, a black jacket and white T-shirt, sits at a table in front of shelves full of vibrantly coloured glass vases
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Artist Slawn: ‘You’re buying not just a physical work but a little part of me’

    He has built up a massive social media following for his graffiti-style works

    A young man wearing a white and black T-shirt and white jogging bottoms stands in front of a red bus whose windows are spray-painted with white and red marks
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Collecting
    Art and design in London 2024

    As London’s autumn season begins, we look at new digital ways of buying design and we profile the designer who hates being called a designer

    In her studio young woman in a leather apron and dark trousers sits held up by the thin curling steel arms of a chandelier in progress
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Karla Osorio: ‘I have a young gallery, but one that was started when I was 50’

    The former lawyer and treasury official has been championing Black Brazilian artists

    A painting depicts three large white birds in flight alongside three floating figures. The background is dark and stormy, in multiple shades of grey
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    What to see around London

    From feline chairs to cinematic installations, a trio of exhibitions

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Art Basel, Frieze and Tefaf pledge to halve carbon emissions by 2030

    Dürer found in tip sells for nearly £35,000; indigenous art gallery to open in London

    Two people view abstract paintings in a gallery
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Sotheby’s secures beauty mogul’s $200mn collection

    India Art Fair to open in Mumbai; praise for Vienna fair’s new director; London galleries join forces for shows

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Christie’s chief says Europe struggling to remain art-market centre

    Marlborough’s Mayfair building for sale; Charles Saatchi offers 500 works for charity; Frieze slower in Seoul

    A smartly dressed seated man in a suit gives a speech to an audience holding a microphone
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Sotheby's Inc
    Sotheby’s earnings plunge as art market catches a chill

    Arch-rival Christie’s also suffering from slowdown in auctions

    Francis Bacon portrait of his lover George Dyer at auction
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    FT Collecting Supplements
    Frieze Seoul 2024

    South Korea will be the art world’s focus in early September as art fairs, biennales and exhibitions coincide

    Imagine a delicate painting of a landscape with some surreal features but it’s made from wool thread
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Frieze Seoul 2024
    Seoul art dealer Kyungmin Lee: ‘Running a gallery doesn’t always come down to the numbers’

    Her interests lie in spotting emerging talent and regional collaborations in a growing market

    A woman with a black bob in a black T-shirt and grey gradient skirt stands in front of a black-white gradient artwork
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Frieze Seoul 2024
    Korea’s Generation MZ art collectors come of age

    Driven by fashion and the fear of missing out, millennials and Gen-Z members are hungry for artworks under $50,000

    View inside an art storage room. On a table at the front is a white sculpture of Winnie the Pooh in front of a jar of honey. Bright paintings can be seen on moveable shelving units
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    Lucy Warwick-Ching
    How can I avoid art investment scams?

    As a newcomer to the market, I’m worried about falling victim to fraud

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