Andy Warhol: Profound artist, affectless hero, subversive icon
Warhol is set to eclipse Picasso with a $200m sale of Marilyn Monroe portrait, breaking records
What’s worth more – a painted BMW or an exploding Lamborghini?
BMW’s Koons art car goes up against the bizarre world of NFTs in an explosive contest
New portrait of John Hume to be unveiled at Dublin art fair
Painting of late SDLP founder by Irish artist Vincent Devine worth €50,000
Pop artists Warhol and Haring in Dublin and Belfast exhibitions
Culloden Estate to host Holywood International Art and Sculpture Art Fair in June
Stormy seas and a king’s crush: lots of royal interest at Whyte’s
A painting of George IV’s embarkation at Dún Laoghaire, renamed Kingstown in his honour, captures grand social occasion
Art couple’s lifelong collection for sale – but they’re not done with buying
A house move is prompting Patrick and Antoinette Murphy to sell a trove of Irish art
Don’t just buy what you love - follow these 10 tips for buying art
The art market is a piranha pool. Here’s how to safely dip your toes in the water
Remembering when Abebe Bikila took a blistering run at Fascism
Visual Art: In 1960, Bikila won Olympic gold, while running barefoot through a Fascist showcase in Rome. Mart's latest show recalls the deed and its impact
Brian O’Doherty: ‘Ireland does not appreciate its foreign achievers’
The artist, doctor and Booker-shortlisted author is as busy as ever in his 90th year, with projects in Ireland, Italy and his adopted New York
Super-gallery puts San Francisco at the centre of the art world
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, reopened after a $305 million expansion, is now the biggest gallery of its kind in the US and has been transformed into a suitably blue-chip space
Roy Lichtenstein's ‘Nurse’ fetches $95m
Record price for piece by American ‘pop art’ painter at New York auction
Modigliani nude sells for $170.4m as art market prices soar
‘Nu Couché’ by early 20th century Italian artist makes second-highest price ever at auction
€179.4m Picasso sale marks ‘new era’ for booming art market
Monet, Giacometti, Rothko and Lichtenstein among the big names making record prices
Bidding frenzy as Sotheby’s close to making art auction record
Lichtenstein and Rothko draw bidders while Christie’s sells most expensive painting in history
Roy Lichtenstein’s €1,000 painting now valued at €50m
Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York expected to net between $2bn and $2.5bn
Plastic fantastic or flexible foe? The credit card turns 65
It has been a long and, for many, rocky road since the first credit card transaction was made in 1950
Bauble auctions: something is rotten in the upper reaches of the art market
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
Who’s buying fine art and antiques and why?
In the second part of our summer series – how the international art market is dominated by super-rich investor-collectors
A new era for the art market
A five-part summer series analyses the current state of the global fine art and antiques market
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