Vivienne Chow

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Vivienne Chow

This article is part of the Artnet Intelligence Report, The Year Ahead 2025. Our analysis of the second half of the year’s market trends provides a data-driven overview of the current state of the art world, highlighting auction results and trends, and spotlights the evolving tastes in a turbulent market. Your role at Art Dubai Group is newly created. What does it entail?

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Vivienne Chow

This news rundown, State of Play, is part of The Asia Pivot, Artnet Pro’s biweekly members-only newsletter that provides mission-critical analysis, insights, and exclusive intelligence on developments in Asia’s art markets, with a focus on business opportunities and challenges. Subscribe here to receive it directly to your inbox every other week. – A $3.5 million Yayoi Kusama painting from 2013 sold at David Zwirner’s Art Basel Hong Kong booth, the top reported price at the fair.

1 week ago | news.artnet.com | Vivienne Chow

The trade war between the U.S. and China rages on but it did not spoil the mood of bidders taking part in a fine classical Chinese paintings auction in Hong Kong as an ancient scroll sold for a record $32.2 million after a 95-minute bidding war on Thursday. The star lot of the Fine Classical Chinese Painting sale at Sotheby’s Hong Kong was a seven-century-old calligraphy in cursive script by Rao Jie, a renowned scholar and calligrapher active during Yuan dynasty (1271–1368).

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Vivienne Chow

An auction house in Austria has called off its partnership with a Chinese firm after a historic sale, accusing the latter of manipulating bidding results from a sale last year. The Shanghai-based auction house has denied the allegations. The Vienna-based OstLicht Auction, which specializes in photography and camera equipment, held its first camera auction in China in collaboration with Shanghai’s Lidong Auction Co., Ltd. last November.

2 weeks ago | news.artnet.com | Vivienne Chow

On opening night of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair, a line stretched around New York’s Park Avenue Armory—a surprising sight, perhaps, for a medium long considered niche. But something is shifting in the world of prints, and recent sales and visitor figures suggest it might be more than just a trend—it may be a renaissance.