This year the city's upstart fair is capitalising on its location, a former office complex, as it turns the world of work on its head

Early sales under the new initiative included artists such as Picasso and Guston

The Basel stalwart takes pride in bringing the new to the Swiss city

As the market catches up with the ultra-contemporary art championed by Liste Art Fair Basel for decades, the fair includes artists who have found success later in life

A $35m Picasso led first-day sales, while galleries reported strong seven-figure results across both historic and contemporary material

The fair's first edition at Sotheby’s landmark Madison Avenue home will feature an expanded roster of international galleries

The Hong Kong jeweller and sculptor unveils parallel installations at Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo and Santa Maria della Pietà, linking mythology, sacred architecture and cosmology

Plus a Maynard Dixon painting owned by Diane Keaton and a William Morris working combining cave art and glass

Combined, the prizes will provide as much as $113,200 for acquisitions at the fair

Henri Matisse’s "La Chaise lorraine" sold for $48.4m with fees as strong results for Picasso, Van Gogh and Giacometti lifted the evening auction's total

The influx to the Lower Manhattan neighbourhood includes three recent arrivals

The fair has nearly doubled its footprint at its new location on the East River, offering exhibitors and collectors more room while allowing for larger site-specific artistic interventions

The art collector and realtor, who has helped dozens of galleries relocate to Tribeca and co-founded the Wolf Hill artist residency, craves a Caravaggio but could do without art-fair small talk

The fossilised skeletons make an unusual incursion into a downtown gallery, meeting John Chamberlain's twisted-metal forms

The co-founders of the design gallery Studiotwentyseven view collecting as an instinctive process, regret missing out on a Nick Cave sculpture and covet a Basquiat

Plus a market-conscious Basquiat and a Seagram-adjacent Rothko

Nearly half of exhibitors this year have a New York base, reinforcing the city’s market dominance as Latin American participation also rises

The action, organised by the campaign group Art Not Genocide Alliance, will culminate in a rally in the city

From splashing sewage to moments of zen, here is our selection of top national presentations in the Giardini, Arsenale and across town

The $33.5m price fetched by set, which once belonged to Yves Saint Laurent, reflects Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne's still-growing market

Low exhibitor turnover and deliberative buying underscore a market built on long-term connections, while younger dealers shape the city’s evolving cultural context

The shortlist for the Art Basel Awards spans artists, curators and collectors ahead of the June ceremony in Basel

Nearly two decades after its short-lived debut, the venerable German fair returns to Palma’s newly energised art scene with a strong showing of local galleries

Plus, Konstantin Andreevich Somov's birch trees and rhinoceros after Dürer are on sale this month

A motel in Pioneertown, a community in California's Mojave Desert, offers local grit and an antidote to art fair fatigue

Henry S. McNeil Jr.’s collection, led by a major Judd "stack" sculpture, is expected to exceed $30m at Christie's this spring

His works, painted on found wood and discarded tin, illuminate culture on the remote Saint Helena Island

The open-air exhibition KTX Biennial, curated by SculptureCenter’s Jovanna Venegas, will bring works by international contemporary artists to the city’s busy 3.5-mile pedestrian and cycling corridor

As collectors tire of mega-fairs and splurge on experiential travel, a new wave of boutique events seeks to draw buyers and sellers to places like Aspen, Joshua Tree, St Moritz and Mallorca

The evening brought in £197m, a 52% increase on last year's equivalent auctions