The Chinese market shrank to just $1.8 billion from $4.9 billion in 2023, underlining the weakness of the world's second-biggest economy. "Major collectors have grown hesitant including for major ...

The job market is also cooling down, while layoffs in February soared to their highest level since July 2020, according to new numbers from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Andy Warhol captured the art market’s commercialism with his colourful silk-screen dollar signs. “Good business is the best art,” he quipped. Were he alive today, bitcoin symbols might be ...

Among the gains will be a male portrait by the Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka, which cost $255,000 in 1985 and is now estimated at £5-8million, and Magritte’s La Reconnaissance Infinie, in ...

But tariffs on art could be uniquely devastating for the Canadian market, which depends in part on the cross-border flow of dealers, collectors and works, and is already suffering from an ...