Market

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

After decades fighting for recognition, Yayoi Kusama turned a deeply personal visual language into a global luxury product. Did her commercial triumph diminish her art?

Joannou, the eighty-six-year-old founder of the Athens-based DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, has been active in the Greek contemporary art scene since the 1980s. He tells George Nelson what’s changed and what’s happening now

Thirty-seven galleries, sixteen countries, €3,500 a booth and twelve prizes: for Messy Business, Jeni Fulton considers what Art-o-rama’s twentieth edition says about where the French market has gone

Gerhard Steidl’s financial difficulties prompted predictions of a wider collapse in art-book publishing. Interviews with publishers, editors and collectors suggest a different picture: not an industry in decline, but one undergoing a profound economic transformation

Artificial intelligence is playing a bigger role in artwork authentication, but how should AI results be weighed against good old human judgement?

Lost artworks, forgotten wallets and rising prices: as digital artists’ careers ramp up, new ways of buying art emerge

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?