The market is driven by supply and demand and not by collectors’ taste, says veteran dealer in Asian art

A new French revolution?

“London remains a huge centre for collectors all over Europe”

Fifty-two participants will exhibit everything from Indian statue jewels to Islamic tiles

And bounty of decorative arts including Chinese porcelain and Mendini furniture

A slick campaign of prominent ads for multiples by contemporary artists is being counted in London, New York and San Francisco

A doctor in a remote village in the Congo, part of Dr Rau's thousand-strong collection is on display now in Paris.

And a wider range of stock attracts more collectors

The French chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey and Phillips auction houise may turn the publication into a luxury lifestyle magazine

The collections of two museums in Grozny have disappeared and the region’s distinctive stone towers are caught in the crossfire

Meanwhile there is clutter in the Cabinet, recent Kossoffs at Annely Juda, and randomised exactitude at Corvi-Mora

As the SOFA fair of contemporary decorative arts comes to New York, we talk to a leading dealer in the field

These collectors agree that the market has risen so much as to make buying almost impossible

Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA, discusses the new internet alliance that marks the first time museums will use their expertise and reputations for online commercial ventures

Sadie Coles in an eastward position, the Lisson and Tim Taylor times two, photography at Frith Street and Maureen Paley, plus powerful juju at Anthony Reynolds

It is fifty years since this collector and essentially American philanthropist was turned on to art while at Harvard. He has been an integral part of the art establishment in Chicago for decades

The president and executive director of Knoedler’s encourages collectors to become museum patrons and supplies major museums with works of art

Picasso for the blind at Wildenstein and a bevy of Latin American paintings exhibitions

An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.

Part owned by Bernard Arnault’s luxury group, this auction price database has huge expansion plans

A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming

Rising prices and increasing prestige for certain artists as collectors awake to Modernism’s sleepers

Many Lewis Hine images have been printed after his death without authorisation, some on papers from as late as the seventies

Serving a possibly premature coup de grâce to the oldest art dealership in the world

Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000

Very little support for the art scene from the tax system and, as in Germany, an outdated distinction between “original” works of art, subject to 9% VAT, and multiples (prints, digital works, photography etc), subject to 19%

Works from the Southeast Asian countries vie with the more traditional Chinese and Japanese selections