Art market
A guide to Art Forum '99, Berlin
100 collectors have been flown in for the contemporary art event
Test your market savvy at the Courtauld's "The value of art"
The exhibition challenges you to decide which work of art is more valuable
From the archive: Frank Stella in 1999 — 'I started, and I think I am going to finish, as a committed abstractionist'
The American artist talked about working to commission, exploring the creative tension between figurative and abstract art, his debt to artists of the past and his views on artists of today
Buyers galore but a bit of a bore: Art Basel 1999
Collectors came out in force, but much of the art on show was not as exciting as that seen at Venice or offered by the auction houses
How to do the eBay: The internet expansion of auction markets
Our art market correspondent, Paul Jeromack, describes how he has successfully sold antiques while sitting at his computer
Photojournalists and the Balkan War
Magnum photographers are among those making the images by which this tragedy will be remembered—but which may also eventually fuel the art market
Vincennes and Sèvres from the Pirie (including Plumb) Collection sold at Christie's New York
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand
Alliance to sell Beistegui house
(Paris) Impatient with the French parliament in passing the bill to open up the French auction market, Sotheby’s goes into partnership with Poulain-Le Fur
If you can’t afford a Gehry building try this $1 million sculpture, now available at Gagosian
Frank Gehry plants a horse’s head in a Richard Meier space
What's it worth to you? Stonehenge's value is assessed in a recent survey
English Heritage has carried out a contingency valuation of Stonehenge and discovered that 58% of those polled would be prepared to help finance the site’s improvement
No UK country has poured as much money as England into art commissions since 1995
The £50m art bonanza has funded everything from Gormley's Angel of the North to a 48km sculpture trail
Fears of a crackdown after the handover turns out to have been exaggerated, but the picture in Hong Kong is far from rosy
Hard times on Hollywood Road
Lives of the collectors: Norton Simon and Hans Berggruen. Culture clash
Similar in many ways, the subjects of these two biographies present contrasting styles of operation in the art market
Art Basel express plans to join forces with Art Miami next year
As its commercial advantages become apparent, Basel gets on the Art Miami bandwagon
The taste of the spectacularly wealthy Palm Beach
Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever
Books: The market muscles its way back onto the agenda, with Bacon and the body keeping pace
Mammon’s shrine in the groves of academe
It was good for me: Seven London dealers review the past year
The state of the trade according to Lisson, Besson, Colnaghi and others
There has been a softening in the middle-range of the art market
Percentage rates are down in many areas for the first half of the season
The European Fine Art Fair Basel: International dealers, local audience
Asian art and antiquities are strongly represented
Christie's Contemporary auction report: Basquiat as a pricing phenomenon
His record price may bolster the market, but not all artists surpassed expectations
Bacon sizzles in New York as newly discovered works go on display at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery
The exhibition notably shuns the Marlborough gallery, which represented the artist throughout his life
Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'
Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California
Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern auction report: Record price for Modigliani
No market for the mediocre, however
London galleries: Natural forms intergenerational in Asprey-Jaques' Kovats and Hepworth joint show
Tony Cragg goes wild at the Lisson, Emily Tsingou gets repetitive and Manchot’s middle-aged mum is at Zelda Cheatle
Veteran dealers swerve Berlin Art Forum 1998 due to dearth of big collectors
A fair in its infancy, Art Forum proved fruitful for younger dealers with affordable art, although its concurrence with Yom Kippur did not help matters
A river runs through it: Hanging around in New York, a monthly guide by Brook S. Mason.
Impressionist painters on the Seine at Wildenstein, the Gilded Age glows at Vance Jordan, exoticism at Mark Murray plus fine furniture and Picasso’s lino cuts
Contradictory entrails; what does the financial health at present mean for the art market?
Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing
Jawlensky paintings are being branded as fakes, but the artists’ descendants defend their inclusion in the recent catalogue raisonné
“My grandfather copied his own works”
Chirac’s Musée de l’Homme raises prices for primitive art
Fetish figures, tribal shields and masks command attention
Fraudulent former dealer duped Irish Georgian Society, cheated investors out of £1.8 million, and sent fake Expressionists to tour twelve US colleges
Bryn Lloyd Williams, a former dealer, duped Desmond Guinness of the Irish Georgian Society and cheated investors out of £1.8 million, while Expressionist fakes toured 12 US colleges