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Collectorsarchive

Major Hong Kong collector, T.T. Tsui in arms for Iran link

The multi-millionnaire has family connections with a Chinese, State-run armaments company

Art Baselarchive

What’s on beyond Art Basel this summer

Exploring Basel commercial galleries; from Classic Modernists to new contemporaries

Art marketarchive

An insider’s guide to the contemporary art sales, New York: Romping with Barney, Whiteread and Kiki Smith

A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows

Italyarchive

New exhibition explores Italian post-war design

Barry Friedman shows Italian high style

Chicago galleries co-operate to keep collectors local

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

The Duma overrides Yeltsin on law nationalising booty taken from Germany to the Soviet Union after World War II

Russian parliament voted last month to override President Yeltsin’s veto, putting him in a precarious political position

Last chance to see Manuel Alvarez Bravo at MoMA

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

Art marketarchive

A brief guide to Chinese contemporary art

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

Bernie Grant and the quest to return ceremonial objects to Nigeria: Was the Stone of Destiny Pandora’s box?

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

Art marketarchive

Facture attracts: Sculpture, objects and functional art, Miami, 6 to 9 March.

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts

Art fairsarchive

Shirin Neshat provokes at Madrid's Arco art fair '97

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

Egypt renounces claim to the Rosetta stone and other major antiquities

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

More Tate of the North

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

The arguments for and against Unidroit

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

Sam Francis’s own paintings at Gagosian

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

Art marketarchive

Partnerships in the French auction market

Commissaire-priseurs unite in preparation for 1998

The Gerstenberg Goyas resurface at The Hermitage

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

Ronald Lauder gives looted shield back to Italy

Artifact had been missing from Bologna since 1940

Tatearchive

Important eighteenth-century and contemporary additions to Tate’s holdings

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

Pre-Post-Human Dalí on show at Schloss Charlottenburg

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