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The Art Market

  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    Frieze New York 2024
    Gallerist Ales Ortuzar: ‘I wanted to break the echo chamber’

    Ortuzar Projects represents only 14 artists, all with low US profiles

    In a photo, a middle-aged man wearing a blue blazer over a black polo shirt stands before two artworks on view at a gallery.
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Controversial AI photo comes to the market

    UBS donates 166 photographs to DC museum; Brussels fair fights VAT hike; merged galleries open first shows in Spain

  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Sotheby’s set to make record for Surrealist Leonora Carrington

    Experiential art gets new support; Hong Kong sales reflect downbeat market; Government Art Collection to buy at London Gallery Weekend

  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Art as investment and investment as art Premium content

    The stock market and the art market are, alas, not so different

  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Venice Biennale 2024
    Benin stakes a claim in the art world with first Venice Biennale pavilion

    The west African country is hoping to turn its cultural sector into a national attraction

    A young woman dressed in blue workwear and a blue scarf moulds a golden spherical object with a wooden tool
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Venice Biennale 2024
    Artist Josèfa Ntjam: ‘AI frees sculpture from the box of the museum’

    Her striking narratives mix African mythologies, the natural world and science fiction

    A young woman dressed in a bright pink turtleneck top and a grey dress looks to her left while standing against a background featuring earthy tones
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Venice Biennale 2024
    Rising nationalism and falling funding are reshaping the Venice Biennale

    Its huge central exhibition, country pavilions and associated shows attract hundreds of thousands of visitors, but change is coming

    A photograph depicts the water-overlooking wood and brick structure of two shipyards, with Venice’s San Marco basilica visible in the distance
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    FT Collecting Supplements
    Venice Biennale 2024

    We bring you highlights from the art world’s most important international exhibition, including how it is dealing with geopolitical upheaval, an interview with curator Adriano Pedrosa and conversations with the artists behind national pavilions

    Landscape oil painting of cubist men kissing
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Venice Biennale 2024
    Artist Alex Katz: ‘This is the end game. It’s just sleep and paint’

    The 96-year-old is opening an ambitious show in Venice with some of his largest paintings to date

    An elderly man wearing a blue zip-up hoodie, a white T-shirt and beige trousers sits on a chair in the centre of a room
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Venice Biennale 2024
    Myths, history and trauma haunt Lebanon’s pavilion

    Mounira Al Solh’s presentation at the Venice Biennale is inspired by the legendary figure of Europa

    In a drawing, a naked woman lying on her back holds a wide bull-decorated vase; around her, boat, human and botanical motifs rendered in yellow, orange and blue
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Venice Biennale 2024
    Venice Biennale curator Adriano Pedrosa: ‘Always have your concept ready because you don’t have much time’

    ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ aims to refresh art history by highlighting artists who tell stories about global movement

    A middle-aged man wearing a black jumper and jeans sits on a rock bench with his hands crossed against a red-brick wall
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Venice Biennale 2024
    Romania brings modern mosaics to the Venice Biennale

    Artist Șerban Savu and curator Ciprian Mureşan are orchestrating a local studio to produce a large scene

    Two middle-aged men, one sitting on a stool on the left, the other leaning on a wooden easel on the right, are captured in their sketch-filled studio
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Venice Biennale 2024
    Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto: ‘Photography is a second-class citizen in the art world’

    He never set out to become a photographer but has ended up making some of the medium’s defining images

    In a black-and-white portrait, an elderly man wearing a dark tailored jacket, jeans and black glasses sits on a couch covered in pillows
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Christie’s launches buy now, pay later scheme for art up to $1mn

    Endeavor quiet on future for Frieze; Venice brings out the business; Dallas fair eyes next generation

  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
    Interview
    Parisian collective aims to put female artists on a firm financial footing

    Le Cercle de l’Art was founded by Margaux Derhy to combat isolation and irregular incomes

    A woman wearing a paint-smeared shirt sits resting her head on her hand, in front of a large, boldly colourful artwork
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Marlborough Gallery to close as tougher times bite

    Christie’s offers prime Chardin for €12mn; Phillips gets Basquiat trio; Kusama tops list of 2023 contemporary artists 

  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    High mood but slower sales at Art Basel Hong Kong

    Brazilian galleries join forces; Idris Elba rallies support for African art; landmark Yves Klein show hits New York

    An art installation consisting of a fake corner of an art gallery, with white walls and paintings, and a green carpet with coloured balls and a golf club
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
    Rebooted Art Basel Hong Kong back to full strength

    The return of former exhibitors to the fair boosts the city’s place in Asia’s art market even as political and economic challenges persist

    Ink painting of two grasshoppers on top of large pink and red pieces of watermelon against a yellow background
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    FT Collecting Supplements
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2024

    The fair is back to full strength even as the city struggles with economic and political challenges. Plus: major Chinese-art collector Uli Sigg; a hot new gallery quarter; and much more

    A screen of three panels with a figure on each, all wearing modern clothes and painted in large shapes without detail
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
    Hong Kong curator Pi Li: ‘We are not afraid of controversy’

    The head of art at Tai Kwun Contemporary has been a teacher, critic and even prizewinning movie producer

    A man with short dark hair in a navy suit sits on a grey concrete bench
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
    Collector Uli Sigg: ‘I gave myself the task of showing the storyline of Chinese contemporary art’

    The former Swiss ambassador to China made a massive donation to Hong Kong’s M+ museum in 2012

    A bald man with grey stubble wearing a white shirt with a bolt of lightning down the chest stands in front of a large pink=purple woven circle
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
    Art Basel Hong Kong offers encounters with tapestries, tombstones and rabbits

    Curator Alexie Glass-Kantor has drawn inspiration from a Tennyson poem for themes of journeys and separation

    Painting of a pale blue rabbit with huge ears sitting at a round brown rable in front of a stream with herons
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
    South-east Asian collectors look beyond Hong Kong’s market

    Political repression in the Chinese city and new regional fairs are shifting the balance of power

    A bare forking red tree interrupts a greyscale old-time couple above a muscular man
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
    Wong Chuk Hang is Hong Kong’s hot new art quarter

    Young gallerists and curators are opening large spaces in its former factories

    An older woman stands at a crossing as a taxi speeds behind her in front of a building covered in street art. In the art, a woman’s speech bubble says: ‘In the building I’ll be safe’
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Francis Bacon portrait of lover on market for $50mn

    Maggi Hambling cuts ties with Marlborough; new directions for US art fair and London gallery

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