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A European buyer dropped $2.3 million as a host of works sold far beyond their estimates. In Sydney, the Witch of Kings Cross proved auction magic.

Melbourne gallery D’Lan Contemporary to open new space in New York.

Sydney Modern Project’s Yiribana Gallery is part of the surge spotlighting talents like Daniel Walbidi and Daniel Boyd.

Find the art world intimidating? So, at times, does the founder of Sydney’s biggest art fair. Which is why there is so much more on the program at this year’s extravaganza.

While the late Indigenous artist Sally Gabori is being feted in the top echelons of Paris, a tragic subplot of theft and deception swirls in the background.

A successful crowdfunding campaign and last-minute funds from governments have returned the 19th-century works to Wurunjderi hands.

An Aboriginal art expert picks the best 8 lots by Indigenous Australian artists hitting the block this week at Sotheby's.

A small but powerful assemblage in France of work by the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye is a harbinger of the resurgent interest in Australia’s top Indigenous artists.

Records fall as buyers rediscover female photographers Save Share It was back-to-the future last week as enthusiastic bidders rediscovered the work of artists from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, pushing prices far above their estimates at the online auction of highlights from the Pat Corrigan collection of contemporary photography. Nine new records were set, and seven of those were for female artists, some of whom are receiving belated recognition in this era of celebrating women’s co...

Auction houses beware: art dealers are back Share In Australia, since the late 1980s auction houses have steadily increased their hold on the secondary art market with dealers becoming a shrinking pool. As auction houses transformed from wholesalers to retailers of art, with robust marketing campaigns, full-colour catalogues and auctions as swish social events, dealers strained to compete. Dealers of old such as Joseph Brown, Eva Breuer, Lauraine Diggins and Win Schubert, were powerful forces i...