Art market
Bernard Arnault buys Art & Auction
The French chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey and Phillips auction houise may turn the publication into a luxury lifestyle magazine
Art and archaeology falls casualty to the Chechen war
The collections of two museums in Grozny have disappeared and the region’s distinctive stone towers are caught in the crossfire
What's on in London: Fischl’s phases at Gagosian, suburban subversion at Anthony Wilkinson, and dysfunctional families at Gimpel Fils
Meanwhile there is clutter in the Cabinet, recent Kossoffs at Annely Juda, and randomised exactitude at Corvi-Mora
Diary of a US dealer: Douglas Heller. Crafting a market for contemporary glass
As the SOFA fair of contemporary decorative arts comes to New York, we talk to a leading dealer in the field
Collector profiles: Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Scanu of New York and Madame M. of Paris. The modern charm of Art Deco
These collectors agree that the market has risen so much as to make buying almost impossible
Interview with director Glenn Lowry: Commercial company to be launched by the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery
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
Interview with Samuel Keller: Quality, not quantity at Art Basel 2000
The new director of the Swiss fair reveals his plans for its future
London galleries: The naked Cubes
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
Collector interview: Lew Manilow on art and Chicago
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
Diary of US dealer Ann Freedman: No websales, please; only the personal touch
The president and executive director of Knoedler’s encourages collectors to become museum patrons and supplies major museums with works of art
Hanging around New York: Collector-patrons for Knoedler’s 159-year history
Picasso for the blind at Wildenstein and a bevy of Latin American paintings exhibitions
How the internet will change the art market: the new kids on the block are smarter than you think
The advice on how to be successful in the online world offered here in 2000 centred on building a community and having a shared sense of purpose and trust
A London Victorian watercolour collector sells up. “With contemporary art you know there will be another work around the corner”
An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.
How Artprice.com raised $24 million on the Nouveau Marché
Part owned by Bernard Arnault’s luxury group, this auction price database has huge expansion plans
Sotheby’s executive vice-president talks about their online venture and the importance of auctions on the web
A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming
Diary of a dealer: the American Modernism dealer, Hollis Taggart
Rising prices and increasing prestige for certain artists as collectors awake to Modernism’s sleepers
Lewis Hine prints under scrutiny as hundreds are found to have been posthumously produced
Many Lewis Hine images have been printed after his death without authorisation, some on papers from as late as the seventies
Christie’s close down Spink and take over the building for corporate headquarters
Serving a possibly premature coup de grâce to the oldest art dealership in the world
Disappointing sales for sothebys.com
Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000
Greek art market in crisis due to weak and badly enforced laws and taxes
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%
Arts of Pacific Asia Show: Mid-price treasures for new and younger collectors
Works from the Southeast Asian countries vie with the more traditional Chinese and Japanese selections
Sue Runyard's new practical handbook explains how to sell your museum
A introduction which examines the principles that underlie marketing and public relations and how they are applied
In their need to raise sponsorship, are US museums risking the loss of their intellectual freedom?
We look beyond the Brooklyn Museum's Sensation exhibition into a troubling trend emerging across the sector
Is another bubble about to burst in the fine art market?
In 2000 we noted that single-owner collections sent prices spiralling upwards which was good news for the salerooms, but disastrous for museums with dwindling budgets
Most expensive works of art at auction, January to December 1999
The top twenty has Cézanne at the top with a new record from Sotheby's
The market for antiquities is growing, unfazed by protesters
As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York
The looming spectre of a large scale photograph : Our choice of New York contemporary galleries
Drawing on draughtsmanship at Alexander and Bonin, Paula Cooper, Zwirner and Marlborough
London auction report: Sotheby’s and Christie’s last month show strong performances for Impressionists in London
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
Ritzy auction prices for homespun objects: American Arts and Crafts design receives boost in popularity from Barbra Streisand
“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts
Fifty percent is brought by men
Geoffrey Munn gives an insider view of the last year



