The fragile artworks you will see, but can never touch

Last week, the holographic Petite Danseuse was in San Francisco and soon it will emerge in Hong Kong.  The hologram, developed by American company Proto, appears inside…

Can you tell which Rothko painting is worth £11 million more?

In fact, Untitled (Shades of Red) (1961) has an upper estimate of $80 million (£61 million), i.e. fully $15 million (£11 million) more than that of No….

‘We’ll be worth £76m next year’– meet the founders of the UK’s first NFT gallery

Today, the UK’s first NFT gallery opens its doors: a full-time space dedicated to what believers promise is the future of British art. Based in Shoreditch, in…

How easy is it to forge a million-dollar Basquiat painting?

It sounds like something out of a thriller film. Twenty-five previously unseen paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, dating from the height of his career, are found in an…

Christie’s gives unfashionable furniture a virtual new home to tempt millennial buyers

“I was very interested in creating this feeling in the viewer where they’re not quite sure what they’re looking at, whether it’s a real space,” he said….