Roy Lichtenstein

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

Record price for piece by American ‘pop art’ painter at New York auction

‘Nu Couché’ by early 20th century Italian artist makes second-highest price ever at auction

Monet, Giacometti, Rothko and Lichtenstein among the big names making record prices

Lichtenstein and Rothko draw bidders while Christie’s sells most expensive painting in history

Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York expected to net between $2bn and $2.5bn

‘Landscape Connemara’ painting was the top lot in art auction

It has been a long and, for many, rocky road since the first credit card transaction was made in 1950

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

In the second part of our summer series – how the international art market is dominated by super-rich investor-collectors

A five-part summer series analyses the current state of the global fine art and antiques market

The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Mac in Belfast attempts to package culture as entertainment, but there’s little depth beneath the veneer