Seller beware
Sotheby’s new fee structure favours the auctioneer
Bits and pieces
Can the digital age can demystify the art world?
So many art fairs, so little time
On the forums that bring together dealer and buyer
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Fine art versus luxury goods
The auction houses’ love expensive brands
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
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With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
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What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
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Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
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X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
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