Gimmicks dominated the art scene but some technological changes have genuine potential

Crypto platform plans another offering; Alpine fair rethinks timing; art sale to benefit refugees

Christie’s secures another Hockney hit; Brexit concerns for March sales; new life in Old Masters

Also: record price for Hitler’s Ruisdael; women take the lead in London

Plus: Medieval forgeries for show; Pace steps up in New York; momentum builds at fee-free auction business

New York auctions; Texas museum gets photo gift; Christie’s head of postwar art steps down; bother at Be Uri; Italian bank values its art

A nervous start to New York auctions; taste swings to Modern Americans; design fair directors rotate; Vivian Maier in colour

Swiss U-turn; success breeds success; female photographers in Paris; rock-star treatment

Plus: Instagram makes sales at Tefaf; virtual reality in Lagos; Ropac to represent Judd Foundation in Europe

Liquidation in London; artist gets back at Louis Vuitton; Modern Couples in the spotlight; Gentileschi still on trend

Plus: bumper New York auctions; the art market on screen; a fire station at Fiac

Plus: art and advisers go back in time; bionic eyes for online sales; bus route beauties at ‘Salon 63’; and alabaster at Ordovas

Major acquisition by Smithsonian; antiquities at Christie’s; Hauser & Wirth in St Moritz; DiCaprio sale sobers up

Plus: artist to sell fake Swiss passports in London during Frieze Week; 20th-century Italian art dwindles; Bonhams is sold

A decade ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed; on the same day, Damien Hirst began a record auction. What happened next?

New Asian outpost for art fair group; auction sales looking good so far; Armory show cuts exhibitor costs; portraits sit pretty

Leisurely pace at Masterpiece fair; mid-market boost at London auctions; Turin collection goes to Rochdale

Plus: tired Impressionist and Modern auction at Sotheby’s; Africa gets first Yinka Shonibare public sculpture; charity targets social mobility

Record auction prices impact on Art Basel; Frieze New York feels the heat; attic find is a dream come true

Rockefeller Picasso at Basel museum; Gauguin group for sale; young buyers in Hong Kong

Digital revolution in prospect; Bonhams on the block again; buyers get political; collector offers alpine pilgrimage

‘Repos’ sells while ‘Marin’ suffers; Kerry James Marshall sets record; Photo London gets abstract; Prince Harry for sale

Super-seller Rockefeller; mega-sales hit profits; Edinburgh gallery’s new home; snapshots of May ’68

New York’s thirst for African-American artists; Hodgkin prints at auction; Gagosian gallery sued