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The art market
August 2022
The perils of living in a man’s world
‘Mind-blowing’: Why do men’s paintings cost 10 times more than women’s?
May 2022
Smog, glorious smog: how Monet saw through London’s poisonous wealth
Painting traded for a cheese sandwich in 1973 sold at auction for C$350,000
March 2022
Elite auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London
Russia oligarchs still able to exploit UK art market loopholes, experts say
January 2022
Crypto tycoons help drive global art market to record levels in 2021
Newly wealthy and pent-up demand from Covid-hit 2020 among reasons as sales of sought-after works boom
December 2021
Sotheby’s sells record $7.3bn of art so far in 2021
Auction house credits younger, tech-savvy collectors for highest annual sales in its 277-year history
November 2021
Frida Kahlo self-portrait beats sale record set by cheating husband
Diego y yo (1949) sells for $34.9m to become most expensive Latin American work to go under the hammer
October 2021
NFTs drive sales of contemporary art to record £2.7bn
Non-fungible tokens boost post-pandemic recovery as Hong Kong emerges to challenge New York
September 2021
Was famed Samson and Delilah really painted by Rubens? No, says AI
Long-held doubts about the authenticity of the National Gallery’s masterpiece, bought for £2.5m in 1980, are backed by pioneering technology
Lord Gowrie obituary
Conservative politician whose background in literature and fine art equipped him well as an arts minister for Margaret Thatcher
The Lost Leonardo review – attribution and avarice on the trail of Salvator Mundi
The story of the hotly disputed discovery and sales of a purported new Leonardo da Vinci work doesn’t paint the art market in a flattering light
May 2021
Sole traders: how sneakers became as collectable as art
‘We go after them like pitbulls’ – the art detective who hunts stolen Picassos and lost Matisses
February 2021
Russian Fabergé exhibition contains 'at least 20 fakes', expert says
Andre Ruzhnikov accuses director Mikhail Piotrovsky of ‘destroying the authority of the museum’
November 2020
A family feud, a mystery firm and the Botticelli masterpiece that quietly vanished
Whereabouts of $10m painting are unknown as legal fight over its ownership continues
October 2020
Lockdown culture
Back in the frame: the extraordinary artists Britain forgot
A Hidden Gems exhibition lays bare museum-grade works that have fallen into oblivion in musty studios and attics – more often than not by women
August 2020
My Rembrandt review – Old Master fanciers in the frame
The super-rich collectors and dealers in Oeke Hoogendijk’s amusing documentary come right out of Rembrandt paintings themselves
June 2020
Former slave Bill Traylor's artistic legacy under threat from forgers
Dozens of fakes are on the market after one drawing of life in the US deep south sold for a record $507,000
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