Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • UK
      Sections
      • UK Home
      • UK Economy
      • UK Politics
      • UK Companies
      • Personal Finance
      Most Read
      • Companies
        Sections
        • Companies Home
        • Energy
        • Financials
        • Health
        • Industrials
        • Media
        • Professional Services
        • Retail & Consumer
        • Tech Sector
        • Telecoms
        • Transport
        Most Read
        • Tech
          Sections
          • Tech Home
          • Artificial intelligence
          • Semiconductors
          • Cyber Security
          • Social Media
          Most Read
          • Russian court approves scandal-hit Wildberries merger
          • AI-powered devices dominate Consumer Electronics Show
          • The uncomfortable truth about social media networks
          • Silicon Valley’s largest start-ups to shun IPOs in 2025
          • Musk calls on California and Delaware to force auction of OpenAI stake
        • Markets
          Sections
          • Markets Home
          • Alphaville
          • Markets Data
          • Crypto
          • Capital Markets
          • Commodities
          • Currencies
          • Equities
          • Wealth Management
          • Moral Money
          • ETF Hub
          • Fund Management
          • Trading
          Most Read
          • Climate
          • Opinion
            Sections
            • Opinion Home
            • Columnists
            • The FT View
            • The Big Read
            • Lex
            • Obituaries
            • Letters
            Most Read
            • Lex
            • Work & Careers
              Sections
              • Work & Careers Home
              • Business School Rankings
              • Business Education
              • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
              • Entrepreneurship
              • Recruitment
              • Business Books
              • Business Travel
              • Working It
              Most Read
              • American Airlines’ use of ‘ESG activist’ BlackRock failed workers, US judge says
              • Do you want the good feedback, or the bad feedback? 
              • The underwear brand that’s neither Victoria’s Secret nor ‘Bridget Jones granny pants’
              • Narcissist CEOs like risky insider trading and are bad at it: study
            • Life & Arts
              Sections
              • Life & Arts Home
              • Arts
              • Books
              • Food & Drink
              • FT Magazine
              • House & Home
              • Style
              • Travel
              • FT Globetrotter
              Most Read
              • HTSI
              MenuSearch
              • Home
              • World
              • UK
              • Companies
              • Tech
              • Markets
              • Climate
              • Opinion
              • Lex
              • Work & Careers
              • Life & Arts
              • HTSI
              Financial Times
              SubscribeSign In

              Melanie Gerlis

              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                The Art MarketCollecting
                Why Milan looks like an art capital of the future

                Gallerists and collectors are drawn by an impressive cultural heritage — and attractive tax arrangements

              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
                The Art Market
                Green shoots for art sales at the end of the year

                Plus: a new fair for Dallas; Hong Kong gets expert adviser; and five-star ratings for London’s Airbnb pop-up

                Two men in white gloves holding an ancient marble tablet inscribed with writing and symbols
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                The Art Market
                Art fairs cancelled in Hong Kong and India

                Anti-apartheid photographer gets his due; steady sales at Art Basel Miami Beach; momentum builds for Miami artist

              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
                In Miami, the art world reacts to a post-Trump landscape

                In a politically divided US, the city’s landmark fair focuses on climate change, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and feminism

                A woman with a short brown bob and glasses, sitting in front of a bookcase.
              • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
                The Art Market
                Crypto king goes bananas for $6.2mn

                Magritte sets $121mn record; Untitled Art fair to open in Houston; Oliver Cromwell portrait rediscovered

              • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
                The Art Market
                Art world reacts to Trump re-election

                Disgraced art adviser’s collection starts to sell; vast European forgery network uncovered; Monuments Men painting comes to Christie’s; Cyprus gets first art fair

              • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
                The Art Market
                Sotheby’s announces new outpost in Saudi Arabia

                AI and the art market; the rise of limited editions; a €400,000 boost for Turin museums

                A skyscraper that tapers to a peak towers upwards in a sunny blue sky
              • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
                The Art Market
                Sotheby’s brings more Leonora Carringtons to market

                Speculation mounts as Frieze put up for sale; European galleries join forces in NY; Ropac to open pop up in St Moritz; Lisson adds radical artist to roster

              • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
                FT Wealth Management
                Art-insurance disputes do not make for a pretty picture

                Ronald Perelman’s $410mn lawsuit shines a light on the conflicts between collectors and insurers

                A large white frame with Elvis Presley’s head screenprinted repeatedly
              • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
                The Art Market
                Wealthy spent 32% less on art in 2023, survey finds

                Modern artists go on show in Manhattan; Brexit bureaucracy hits Barcelona fair; female-focused gallery to open in London

                People walk through the passageways of an art gallery looking at the works on the walls
              • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
                The Art Market
                Art Basel Paris lights up Grand Palais with works by Picasso, Richter and Leonor Fini

                Plus: satellite fairs boost contemporary art; Sotheby’s opens new Paris HQ; Komunuma draws gallerists to suburbs

              • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
                Art Basel Paris 2024
                Art Basel Paris heads to the Grand Palais

                France’s biggest art fair’s debut in its auspicious new venue dovetails with heavyweight museum shows

                Abstract painting using several blocks of bright, contrasting colours, arranged in wiggly lines
              • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
                Art Basel Paris 2024
                Parisian galleries group together in the 8th arrondissement

                L’Association Matignon Saint-Honoré unites mega galleries and Old Masters dealers in a collective soirée

                Facade of a 19th century apartment block in central Paris
              • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
                Visual Arts
                Frieze London ‘more buoyant than expected’ in risk-averse climate

                Eric Clapton’s de Kooning sells for £3.5mn at Christie’s; Hockney fetches £13.2mn at Sotheby’s

              • Monday, 7 October, 2024
                Office life
                What is the point of corporate art collections?

                Works exhibited by companies can deepen client relationships and tempt staff to the office

                Britta Farber of Deutsche Bank, in front of Anish Kapoor’s ‘Turning the World Upside Down III’, 1996
              • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
                What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
                Economic and political challenges threaten London’s art market

                The Frieze art fairs return as global sales fall and costs rise, but organisers have plans to increase attractiveness

              • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
                What to see in London during Frieze Week 2024
                Gallerist Maureen Paley: ‘I want to keep things to a more intimate scale’

                The New Yorker has witnessed London’s art market grow from quiet origins into a high-octane scene over the past 40 years

                A woman with dark hair, in sunglasses, leaning against a mantel shelf, wearing a long black frock coat, black trousers, a white top and a red scarf
              • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
                The Art Market
                Artists pitch in to raise $1mn for Kamala Harris

                Sotheby’s debt in the limelight; Christie’s dresses up for Hong Kong; advisory firm opens in Paris; Guyana artist gets his due at Frieze Masters

              • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
                The Art Market
                Art Basel, Frieze and Tefaf pledge to halve carbon emissions by 2030

                Dürer found in tip sells for nearly £35,000; indigenous art gallery to open in London

                Two people view abstract paintings in a gallery
              • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
                The Art Market
                Sotheby’s secures beauty mogul’s $200mn collection

                India Art Fair to open in Mumbai; praise for Vienna fair’s new director; London galleries join forces for shows

              • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
                The Art Market
                Christie’s chief says Europe struggling to remain art-market centre

                Marlborough’s Mayfair building for sale; Charles Saatchi offers 500 works for charity; Frieze slower in Seoul

                A smartly dressed seated man in a suit gives a speech to an audience holding a microphone
              • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
                ReviewVisual Arts
                Fondation Beyeler’s latest show is conceptual, delightful and never stops changing

                Artworks are rehung throughout the day as part of Tino Sehgal’s performance at the institution in Basel

                A giant framed painting of a blue flower and an orange flower dwarfs the two staff handling it as it is wheeled away
              • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
                The Art Market
                Paris defies large fall in global auction sales

                Ethiopian gallery shuts London space; new fair offers art under £600; optimism in Tokyo

              • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
                The Art Market
                Stolen Titian found at bus stop sells for £15mn

                All change for Lévy Gorvy Dayan in Hong Kong; antiquities gallery ruffles feathers at London fair

              • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
                The Art Market
                Sotheby’s sale underwhelms in quiet summer season

                Vivienne Westwood items excite; Gagosian to have first show in Seoul; Frieze London gets a makeover

              Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

              Useful links

              Support

              View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

              Legal & Privacy

              Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

              Services

              Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

              Tools

              PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

              Community & Events

              FT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

              More from the FT Group

              Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
              The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
              Edition:UK
              International
              Subscribe for full access

              Top sections

              • Home
              • World
                • Middle East war
                • Global Economy
                • UK
                • US
                • China
                • Africa
                • Asia Pacific
                • Emerging Markets
                • Europe
                • War in Ukraine
                • Americas
                • Middle East & North Africa
              • UK
                • UK Economy
                • UK Politics
                • UK Companies
                • Personal Finance
              • Companies
                • Energy
                • Financials
                • Health
                • Industrials
                • Media
                • Professional Services
                • Retail & Consumer
                • Tech Sector
                • Telecoms
                • Transport
              • Tech
                • Artificial intelligence
                • Semiconductors
                • Cyber Security
                • Social Media
              • Markets
                • Alphaville
                • Markets Data
                • Crypto
                • Capital Markets
                • Commodities
                • Currencies
                • Equities
                • Wealth Management
                • Moral Money
                • ETF Hub
                • Fund Management
                • Trading
              • Climate
              • Opinion
                • Columnists
                • The FT View
                • The Big Read
                • Lex
                • Obituaries
                • Letters
              • Lex
              • Work & Careers
                • Business School Rankings
                • Business Education
                • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
                • Entrepreneurship
                • Recruitment
                • Business Books
                • Business Travel
                • Working It
              • Life & Arts
                • Arts
                • Books
                • Food & Drink
                • FT Magazine
                • House & Home
                • Style
                • Travel
                • FT Globetrotter
              • Personal Finance
                • Property & Mortgages
                • Investments
                • Pensions
                • Tax
                • Banking & Savings
                • Advice & Comment
                • Next Act
              • HTSI
              • Special Reports

              FT recommends

              • Alphaville
              • FT Edit
              • Lunch with the FT
              • FT Globetrotter
              • #techAsia
              • Moral Money
              • Visual and data journalism
              • Newsletters
              • Video
              • Podcasts
              • News feed
              • FT Schools
              • FT Live Events
              • FT Forums
              • Board Director Programme
              • myFT
              • Portfolio
              • FT Digital Edition
              • Crossword
              • Our Apps
              • Help Centre
              • Subscribe
              • Sign In