Big names for private collectors and big sculptures for museum curators

As the supply of works by the big names dwindles demand is growing for pictures by lesser known artists

A new Orientalist star overturns Gérôme; Italo-Swiss Alpine artist fetches $9.5 million and “The big wave” sweeps photography to new heights

While a broad consensus emerged that sales remain solid, the demand for quality pictures outstrips supply, causing frustration among serious collectors

While the market remains largely stable in Europe, the demand for quality pictures, fuelled by thriving European economies, outstrips supply

Trade at home is still strong, but Germany is looking for business beyond its borders

Plotting national tastes and identifying certain general market trends

Abbot and Holder, Colnaghi, Maas Gallery, Lumley Cazalett Contemporary Applied Arts, Fine Art Society, David Black, Bloomsbury Workshop, Whitford Fine Art

Despite support from public institutions and a glittering collectors programme Art Forum needs a loyal and affluent clientele

China’s economy may be faltering, but the Shanghai and Beijing contemporary art markets have expanded significantly since the Asian economic crisis last year

Cultura must draw inspiration from its forerunner if it is to take advantage of collectors flocking to Basel

With American classical furniture and decorative arts in close second place

What effect will the internet have on a market traditionally based on face-to-face contact and what are the implications of increased access to information?

A Californian company prepares to sell etchings reprinted from the seventeenth-century plates

She is the bridge between the private collector and the public

100 collectors have been flown in for the contemporary art event

The exhibition challenges you to decide which work of art is more valuable

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

Our art market correspondent, Paul Jeromack, describes how he has successfully sold antiques while sitting at his computer

Magnum photographers are among those making the images by which this tragedy will be remembered—but which may also eventually fuel the art market

A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand

(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

Frank Gehry plants a horse’s head in a Richard Meier space

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

Hard times on Hollywood Road

Similar in many ways, the subjects of these two biographies present contrasting styles of operation in the art market

As its commercial advantages become apparent, Basel gets on the Art Miami bandwagon