Auction highlights this month include a Twombly masterpiece that has never appeared at auction before and a striking portrait by Picasso
Many artists are uncomfortable about the perceived excesses of the market. But can they actually do anything about it?
These supposedly 'primitive' ceramics from late medieval and early Renaissance Italy are fresh, inventive and fun
Antiques in Hong Kong, tribal art in France, and London's first quattrocento maiolica show in 100 years
Modern and contemporary art and design take centre stage at the first ever TEFAF New York Spring
Plus: art fair shake-ups in Germany and an Ottoman art record in London
Many acquisitions at UK museums are made possible by a tax break that benefits both buyer and seller
Like the city itself, the strength of this fair is in its variety
Lacquer is an extemely difficult material to work with, but the results can be extraordinary
There has always been a market for early 20th-century German prints, but it's constantly evolving as tastes and expertise change
The auction houses have announced their top lots for the May sales in New York
Art Brussels, Art Cologne, and the London Original Print Fair all return in the coming weeks, and the countdown to Art en Vieille-Ville in Geneva begins
Auction highlights this month include an outstanding example of early Ming porcelain and a rare Nicholas Lancret painting
This glazed terracotta roundel by Andrea della Robbia was made for a palace that was promptly destroyed
Why Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pastels are becoming increasingly attractive to art collectors of all sorts
The Crommelynck brothers worked with the greatest artists of the 20th century to produce extraordinary prints, some of which will soon come to auction
The Parisian fair returns this month to celebrate one of the most instinctive and timeless of mediums
Early reported sales at TEFAF Maastricht were strong, particularly among Old Master dealers
Technical research offers assurances to private collectors – but they must exercise caution
This lapis lazuli vessel is the work of one of a famous dynasty of Milanese lapidaries, and a market rarity
Two liveried servants bear trays of food in this charming 18th-century tile painting attributed to Vicente Navarro
This unpublished Book of Hours was possibly illustrated by three of the most original artists working in Paris in the 15th century
Ori Gersht meticulously recreated a Fantin-Latour, flash froze it and then blew it up, in order to capture a moment of destruction
Large Sawos totemic figures such as this were hung on cult houses and dwellings to represent powerful ancestral forces
