Market

Sid Motion appeared to do everything right. Yet it joins a growing number of highly regarded galleries closing or contracting. If the sector’s success stories can’t make the economics work, what does that mean for everyone else?

The Trump administration has largely spared artworks and antiques from its latest tariff regime. Yet artists, galleries and museums will still feel the effects. Here's six ways the new trade policy will reconfigure the artworld as a whole

When news broke that Steidl Verlag had entered insolvency proceedings, many assumed the world's most celebrated art-book publisher was collapsing. The reality is more complex: revealing a business struggling with liquidity, succession and the preservation of its unique printing assets

As the UK's new government reshapes its AI strategy, figures across the visual arts argue Britain’s advantage lies in its creative economy, if ministers invest in the cultural infrastructure needed to sustain it

A major new study suggests the barriers facing women artists are embedded in the museums, galleries and institutional relationships that shape artistic careers, arguing that access to influential networks remains a key driver of long-term market success

Blockbuster art sales drove record first-half auction results, but luxury, finance, hospitality and private sales are increasingly reshaping the auction house business model

Brussels has escalated its standoff with the Venice Biennale over Russia's return, recommending the withdrawal of €2 million in EU funding

Artists claim victory over conceptual artwork dispute with multi-billion-dollar asset manager

Marc Glimcher says the mega-gallery system is "unfixable". But artist testimony and Pace's own accounts point to a crisis rooted less in the art market than in the gallery leadership's own decisions. For Messy Business, Jeni Fulton reports

Mistakenly sold as the work of an unknown painter, Let the Little Children Come Unto Me has become one of the art world's most extraordinary rediscoveries - revealing new insights into Rembrandt's practice and the risks of modern interpretation

What has been lost? What can be learnt? And how are other galleries responding to the same commercial pressures?

Does the record turnout for Brazilian galleries at Basel reflect recent optimism about the country’s domestic art market?