Saatchi sells two Kippenberger paintings

Does a crop of major presentations coinciding with the art fair indicate a proportionate energy in the market?

Castlestone plans 18-month buying spree while prices remain low

Buyers eschew risk-taking to pursue the commercial, while Design Miami/Basel benefits from a new location

Brothers raise cash with a few pictures from their extensive collection

Mixed results as contemporary art nosedives while earlier works avoid the worst

Despite state subsidies and heavy promotion, not everyone is feeling the benefit

The paintings were appraised after a Goodwill employee spotted the pair

The collectors add work by Pascale Marthine Tayou to their extensive collection

Representatives of the Seoul Design Foundation have contacted founder Craig Robins requesting his presence in Korea

Shirazeh Houshiary on identity, spirituality and the excess of gimmicks in contemporary art

Dutch school of design is in the ascendant as the fair commences off Messeplatz

Exhibitors wary of investing in weak market, while community groups oppose Scope tent on public open space

An equivalent was not to be found at Art Basel, which upheld tradition in its biped-only selection

Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades

Fakes left in place of stolen artefacts in elaborate webs of deceit

Gallery hopes to buck the downturn with transatlantic expansion

Artist’s widow in marathon authentication exercise

Local artists show alongside established international names, as collectors and exhibitors circumvent trade restrictions

Now that auction houses are no longer offering guarantees, an increasing number of purchases are likely to take placeas discreet transactions brokered by art dealers

Latin American collectors moved outside traditional comfort zones

Collectors respond as prices drop to 2005-6 level

(est £4m-£6m), the work remains unsold

Exhibitors fear that collectors will no longer make high-price purchases

We look at the talking points and early sales

The gallery dismisses the suit as a “smear campaign”