Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York expected to net between $2bn and $2.5bn

‘Landscape Connemara’ painting was the top lot in art auction

It has been a long and, for many, rocky road since the first credit card transaction was made in 1950

The spending power of super-rich collectors who are blinded by celebrity is making Old Masters unsaleable while brash works fetch stratospheric prices – and it’s killing a key component in art’s ecosystem

In the second part of our summer series – how the international art market is dominated by super-rich investor-collectors

A five-part summer series analyses the current state of the global fine art and antiques market

The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Mac in Belfast attempts to package culture as entertainment, but there’s little depth beneath the veneer