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Monochrome mania: Boetti’s obsession with the Xerox machine
Colour = Reality show lights up artist’s photocopy fetish
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Should Egypt give up the fight for artefacts in foreign museums?
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Asian clients drive strong sales at auction houses
“The market is back,” says Christie’s head—but pressure to secure top property is “huge”
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Guide to Asian pavilions at the 2017 Venice Biennale
From upside-down architecture to shadow puppets, artists explore cultural identity at the “Olympics of the art world”
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Objects of desire: what dealers are taking to Tefaf
Visitors can expect to see an eclectic mix at Maastricht
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Klimt helps Sotheby’s reach auction record in London
Quality works by household names bring a successful round of evening auctions to a close this week
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Magritte painting breaks record at Christie’s Surrealist sale
Market reassured after high sell-through rates at the auction house's two sales
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Hong Kong stays buoyant despite turbulence in the Western market
Art Basel in Hong Kong has turned the city’s fortunes around, art-wise, but the city’s cultural infrastructure still has some way to go
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The great London auction reshuffle
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Central London to get a new arts hub by 2019
Cromwell Place is intended primarily for galleries but will provide space for non-selling exhibitions too
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Alighiero Boetti takes centre stage in Paris
Tornabuoni Art inaugurates its new space in the Marais with largest-ever gallery retrospective of the artist’s work
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Richter’s Eisberg to loom large at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale
Rare outing on the market for a landscape by the German artist best known for his abstract paintings
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London Art Fair sets its sights wide on collectors of all kinds
Six-figure prints by Warhol and £600 etchings are both on offer
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Rothko and Rauschenberg to lead Christie’s London auction in March
Weak pound and successful museum shows means increased audience for Post-war American artists
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How Photo London aims to take the title of photo capital from Paris
The fair sees increased participation from big contemporary art galleries and is collaborating with Magnum Photos for its 70th anniversary
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Major shows in Venice and Paris to map Alighiero Boetti’s monumental spectrum
Cini Foundation and Tornabuoni’s new outpost in the French capital will host exhibitions in 2017
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London's Old Master sales bolstered by private collections
Major surprise was last-minute withdrawal of Goya sketch at Christie's
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Sotheby’s buys Orion Analytical lab in fight against art fraud
As forgery cases pile up, auction house is also setting up a scientific research department
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Young blood for Old Masters
Enterprising dealers are updating their businesses to cope with a changing market
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The year in the art market: instability rules
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London's Russian sales buoyed by rare Rodchenko and Chashnik works
Market see upswing as buyers' confidence grows
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Mayor Gallery sues over Agnes Martin
Catalogues raisonnés emerge as the latest front in the battle to authenticate works and secure market value
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New York sales defy fears of downturn
Fewer trophy works this season, but solid totals and record prices for several artists
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Gun fired at Arthur Rimbaud sells for €434,000
Poet's lover Paul Verlaine shot at him with the weapon in 1873 but only grazed his wrist
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Art Basel in Miami Beach channels spirit of David Bowie
Fair’s Public section in Collins Park will take inspiration from the late musician
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Auction houses avoid Chinese New Year clash
Growing Asian purchasing power precipitates alterations to sales calendars
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Monet's Grainstack fetches $81.4m at Christie's, setting a new auction record for the artist
But mixed results at the Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York reflect continued cautious market
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Munch’s Girls on the Bridge fetches more than $50m in bellwether New York auction
Solid results for Sotheby’s in first sale after Trump's election victory, but László Moholy-Nagy gets the only artist record
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Paris Photo turns 20
After last year’s catastrophe, fair expands its exhibition spaces
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Must-see shows in Turin during Artissima
Heavy-hitting, political shows by Wael Shawky and Josh Kline headline the city’s art programme
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Highlights from Artissima
Unknown artists rub shoulders with big names, while the fair director wants to stay on
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Post-Brexit fears calmed as buyers take advantage of weak pound
In London, low estimates and favourable exchange rates boost contemporary profits… but at the Italian sales, fewer stand-out lots bring results down from last year’s high
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Market revs up for racing car artist Salvatore Scarpitta
As the Italian-American’s historical importance is reassessed, curators play catch-up with his later works
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Foundation opens new space in Buenos Aires
The main aim of Fundación Arte is to promote cultural dialogue with Argentinian and Latin American artists
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It’s back to the Nineties for Frieze London
Gallery shows from the decade will be recreated in Regent’s Park
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Christie’s hikes fees in a cooling market
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Art collector gives $1.5m backing to e-commerce platform Bidsquare
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Thomas Hesse takes charge of newly merged Auctionata and Paddle8
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Four gallery shows to see during London’s Italian art week
From the Modern masters Fontana and Melotti and the post-war star Alighiero Boetti to the lesser-known artist Rodolfo Aricò and interactive kinetic art
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Colnaghi to inaugurate new London space during Frieze week
Historic Old Masters gallery will open with exhibition around themes of mortality and vanity
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In the Trade, September 2016
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First posthumous exhibition of Gerald Laing's work to open in London
The Fine Art Society's show will coincide with publication of British Pop artist's first catalogue raisonné
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Mike Nelson turns Monaco bank into an ultramarine blue underworld
Every surface, from the Baroque staircase and underground vaults, has been daubed for the hallucinogenic project
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Helena Newman named chairman of Sotheby’s Europe in staff restructure
A slew of new posts includes the appointment of museum professional Eric Shiner to the Fine Arts division
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Rubens puts Christie's on top during Old Masters week in London
As the auction season comes to an end, big brand names keep the market buoyant
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London Art Week: our top five picks
A selection of objects that reflect the variety of art on offer, both in terms of price and medium
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In the trade, July/August 2016
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British art comes out on top at Christie’s 250th anniversary sale
Despite an £18m Lucian Freud going unsold, the sale proved the market is strong
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London sales take the next hit
Impressionist and Modern evening totals are down by half, but a dearth of top works is more to blame than the UK’s Brexit vote
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Stolen Old Masters found in London vault head back to Italy
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Leon Black now owns disputed Picasso sculpture
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Six things to see at Masterpiece London
Sales made on opening day suggest the country’s political woes have not put collectors off buying
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Modigliani the star as Christie’s auction disappoints on eve of EU referendum
Political uncertainty and last-minute withdrawals may have contributed to below-estimate results
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Picasso and Modigliani portraits make an impression at Sotheby’s auction
Ahead of Brexit vote, auction house’s Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale achieves solid results
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Our guide to satellite fairs during Art Basel
From the established to the brand new, the Swiss city is teeming with fringe events
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Serpentine summer programme goes BIG
Four additional projects accompany the annual pavilion for Julia Peyton-Jones’ last stand
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Russian art sales continue to tumble
The combined total is a new low, but there are (small) reasons to hope
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On the road: Tornabuoni’s Art Basel presentation to travel to museums in US and Italy
Solo stand of works—and cars—by Salvatore Scarpitta is generating new interest in the US artist’s work
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Business booms for 1:54 as fair’s ‘African’ tag comes into question
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New York sales cool but don’t freeze
Auction results were stellar 12 months ago, but sense and caution meant the houses had to work hard for more sober results this time round
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Goodbye Spring Masters, hello Tefaf
The fair’s takeover heralds a likely expansion in the number of exhibitors
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Photo London takes over Somerset House
New tent in the courtyard and ambitious public programme sees photography fair establish its presence in the capital
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Christie’s sets record for Basquiat at solid contemporary art auction
Auction house served up a ‘tight, curated and profitable’ sale after reducing reserves
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Disappointing Sotheby's sale shows correction at top end of the market
Last night's Impressionist and Modern auction in New York had a 66% sell-through rate
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Gently does it at Phillips evening sale
Unenthusiastic bidding was bolstered by heavy guarantees, but some works hit the mark
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No Venice this year—but Frieze New York still gets a Biennale boost
Visitors can see work by artists chosen for 2017 national pavilions
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Frieze gets the Hollywood treatment
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Art fairs take on terrorism by keeping calm and carrying on
The industry is putting on a brave face in the wake of another devastating attack on a European city
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Myrna Ayad appointed new director of Art Dubai
She replaces Antonia Carver, who ran the fair for six years
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Frieze gets the Hollywood treatment as entertainment group WME-IMG buys a stake
Company of super agent Ari Emanuel has invested in London-based publisher and art fair
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Titian, Tiepolo and Canaletto: Venetian paintings from Vittorio Cini’s collection go on show for the first time
The businessman and politician’s Venice-based Fondazione Cini is world-famous, but his own art collection is only just being rediscovered
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West London gallery hub to keep V&A company
£15m development in South Kensington’s “Albertopolis” cultural zone will house shows and projects