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Since its founding in 2010 as an art fair that works very hard not to look or feel like an art fair, Independent has prospered in its home in the funky old building on West 22nd Street that once housed the Dia Center for the Arts, whose rough brick walls practically breathe downtown art history.

But the fit wasn’t perfect. The elevators were tiny; climbing the narrow, winding staircase could feel like scaling the Matterhorn in the middle of an avalanche; and the building’s future was never certain. Last year, it was sold (it will be torn down for high-end condos), and Independent’s co-founder, the gallery owner Elizabeth Dee, said she spent several anxious months looking for — and not finding — Manhattan space to suit the fair. But it has now found a home in an unconventional kind of setting: Spring Studios in TriBeCa, the New York outpost of a fashion-focused company that has run a sprawling studio and exhibition space in North London for almost 20 years.

ArtHamptons, the longest running art fair in the Hamptons, is celebrating its eighth year with a new date and location. The highly anticipated event has been moved up one week to coincide with Independence Day weekend -- the region’s official summer season kick off. This year’s fair, which begins with an opening night preview on Thursday, July 2, will take place at an opulent private estate on Lumber Lane in the posh Bridgehampton neighborhood. 

ArtHamptons, which welcomes around 15,000 collectors and art enthusiasts during its four day run, continues to grow with...

The Art Newspaper has discovered that the largest and most powerful due diligence service used by the art world is at the center of three separate provenance disputes, two of which are working their way through international courts.

The Art Loss Register (ALR), a company founded by Julian Radcliffe that works with law enforcement officials worldwide, more than 80 auction houses, most major art fairs and innumerable collectors and dealers, has provided certificates confirming that works of art were free from claim, when they were in fact subject to claims by third parties or stolen.

The center of the European market for photography has traditionally been Paris, thanks in part to longstanding support from the city’s institutions and, more recently, the dominance of Paris Photo as the leading photography fair this side of the Atlantic.

Now, Photo London, a new fair launched by the cultural consultancy Candlestar with support from the Luma Foundation, is aiming to fill this gap in the capital’s art market, with around 60 international and UK-based galleries, at Somerset House (21-24 May), wh ere the word “photography” was first coined by John Herschel in 1839.

Frieze New York, one of the world’s most anticipated contemporary art events, will open on Thursday, May 14, in a distinct serpentine structure overlooking the East River. Located in Randall’s Island Park, the fair is a spin-off of Frieze London, which launched in 2003. Since its inception, Frieze New York has...

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Frieze Week always brings with it a flurry of art events, but few are as highly anticipated as the inaugural Art Miami New York (AMNY) fair. Produced by the esteemed ownership team of Art Miami, AMNY will bring the brand’s distinct style and ambiance to New York City. According to Nick Korniloff, the Founder/Partner of AMNY, “It only...

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Judged by visitor and exhibitor figures—56,000 visitors and 200 galleries from 23 countries this year—Art Cologne, whose 2015 edition closed on April 19, is not quite in the top ten fairs internationally. But as a regional event with a strong focus on Germany’s vibrant art scene and the German, Benelux and eastern European market, it has established itself as an essential stop-off on the art fair circuit for many collectors and dealers. “We need to be here,” said Alex Reding of the Luxembourg gallery Nosbaum Reding.

On Saturday, London’s Robilant + Voena sold one of the most expensive works so far noted at TEFAF, as Andy Warhol’s large-scale, 90 by 70 inch “Knives” from 1981-82, executed in synthetic polymer and silkscreen on canvas and blown up from a Polaroid taken by the artist, sold to a European collector in the region of the $3.2 million asking price.

Painted near the nadir of Warhol’s career, the group of three knives was sourced from a Bowery restaurant supply store and brought back to the artist’s studio to be arranged and photographed.

The Rijksmuseum has purchased a large canvas by the 17th-century painter Jan Asselijn at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht. The painting shows the breach of the St. Anthony’s Dike (now the Zeeburger Dike) in Amsterdam, which resulted from the St. Peter’s Flood of 1651. The purchase was made possible with the support of the Scato Gockinga Fund / Rijksmuseum Fund, the Turing Foundation and an anonymous donor. To celebrate its 10-year role as a main sponsor of the Rijksmuseum, ING also contributed to the acquisition.

Jan Asselijn (c.1610-1652), who personally witnessed the flood in Amsterdam in 1651, recorded the breach of the dam in both a journalistic and a dramatic sense.

The roster of dealers going to the West Coast for the third edition of Paris Photo Los Angeles is out. The fair will take place at Paramount Pictures Studios from May 1–3, 2015. Yasmine Mohseni wrote of last year's fair: "Paris Photo Los Angeles felt more convivial and less ‘business as usual' compared to other fairs where art advisors and collectors jockey for a prime spot at the most coveted booth."

With 80 galleries from 17 countries, the list is the same size as last year. Exhibitors like Taschen, Aperture, Printed Matter, Steven Kasher, and Garis & Hahn on the list this year.