A list of the most important additions

Sweet censorship in Sheffield

This monumental retrospective of the Mexican photographer's unique images is not to be missed

Crucifixes and razorblades show the breadth of Beuys' production

China is in the news more and more as its economy booms and Hong Kong gets handed back this summer; Chinese art is beginning to penetrate Western consciousness

Grant shares with The Art Newspaper his conversation with Julian Spalding of the Kelingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts

Neshat links three incongruous images - the bare soles of the feet, Arabic script and gun violence - to achieve a conceit

A radical change of policy as new director of antiquities takes over

His motivations to sell remain unclear

600,000 visitors a year and £3.8 million from the National Lottery

He died aged 87

£20,000 for thirty-year old Scotsman

200 outfits to enter the collection

Our second Art Law Supplement examines cultural property export regulations; the legal loopholes in their international enforcement and the latest proposed solution: the controversial 1995 Unidroit Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. We also deal with art and artists on the edge of society, in articles on censorship and the creations of the mentally ill

Works kept by the artist are to be exhibited in a commercial gallery for the first time

Commissaire-priseurs unite in preparation for 1998

Drawings believed lost go on display in “Masterpieces of Western European Drawing"

Artifact had been missing from Bologna since 1940

The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton

Five hundred sculptures, prints and drawings courtesy of the Stratton Foundation

Meanwhile, Paul McCarthy and Pierre Molinier provide a little titillation

“Inside the visible” is on show until 8 December

Andrew Fabricant will shortly be opening an office in New York

“Trompe l’oeil: to fool the eye and to challenge the appraiser” is on in New York

Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures in high-society benefit at PaceWildenstein

The new exhibition displays over 250 works in a journey around the art inspired by the eighteenth-century infatuation with Italy and antiquity

Though the identity of the Boucicaut Master is unknown, his work is extremely valuable

Wonnacott's portrait of John Major is on view at Agnew's

"Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven” is at the Brooklyn Museum 20 October - 5 January 1997