Market

The Art Basel and UBS survey suggests a youthquake: Gen Z collectors spend the most on average. But, as collectors buy less at auction and more directly from artists, galleries are feeling the squeeze. For Messy Business, Jeni Fulton reports

The Minor Attractions fair returns to London this October, bringing together independent cultural venues and projects at The Newman Hotel in Fitzrovia

Led by rarely seen works by Van Gogh and Cézanne, the November sale is being touted as a coup for Sotheby’s – and offers another test of how far exceptional collections can propel the auction market’s recovery

Admired by fellow artists but little known to wider audiences, Martha Diamond made New York’s skyline her own. Her first European solo exhibition, at Finland's Sara Hildén Art Museum, asks us to look beyond the cityscape

As this year’s Turner Prize arrives at Middlesbrough's MIMA, two of its four shortlisted artists are also on view at Thaddaeus Ropac in London. Their simultaneous exposure offers a test of what a nomination now does for an artist’s career and market

As Madrid’s contemporary art fair ESTAMPA opens tomorrow, Spanish galleries say they are being left at a growing competitive disadvantage. After strikes, protests and years of lobbying, frustration is growing

As private sales take a growing share of the art market, Sotheby’s is making them more visible, more theatrical and more closely tied to the luxury experience economy

Big-money buyers may be back at auction, but the houses still need exceptional material to bring them to the room - as Roy Lichtenstein and Count Duerckheim demonstrate

Ronnie Walker spent 20 years investigating art theft and fraud. Now he wants artists to maintain the paper trail investigators often find missing

The rush into Seoul is over. As the market cools, the question is whether the Western art world ever really understood what it was buying into

The Green leader says Britain’s artists are in crisis. But if his proposed 1% tax on wealth above £10m drives collectors elsewhere, what would it mean for the galleries and artists he wants to support?

The Art Journal talks to Jacob Barnes, Minor Attractions’ co-founder, about doubling down as the art market struggles to recover