A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors

London may be the loser in the end, but the Brits brought it on themselves

Eugene Victor Thaw on the transformation of tribal art

Scholars say that famous paintings are not by the artist. Provenances difficult to prove

A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows

The Art Newspaper reporter saw a trend towards later Chinese art, satisfied dealers active museums buyers—and some worrying fakes

Accounting a-Gogo and a biennial's missing raison d’être

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.

A field with keen collectors and plenty of sleepers at the auctions to challenge the dealers

Tinseltown tunes into art as money and movies draw New York dealers, creating new collectors out of Hollywood royalty - though no one will kiss and tell

David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style

China is in the news more and more as its economy booms and Hong Kong gets handed back this summer; Chinese art is beginning to penetrate Western consciousness

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts

Neshat links three incongruous images - the bare soles of the feet, Arabic script and gun violence - to achieve a conceit

His motivations to sell remain unclear

But heavy disappointment for collector Basia Johnson as recently acquired works failed to sell

Too few collectors, and too specialised, to guarantee success even for masterpieces

Christie’s succeeds with the sale of goods recently in the trade and much restored

Bought since the 80s, the eight Dutch and Flemish paintings include Rembrandt and Sweerts

Top Taiwanese dealer Jeff C.F. Hsu gives an exceptionally detailed analysis with names of leading figures in the market and where to find what kind of art

1996 saw high prices and new records with the Chinese determining the shape and make up of future sales

Works kept by the artist are to be exhibited in a commercial gallery for the first time

Commissaire-priseurs unite in preparation for 1998

The pioneering company find that patience is the key to success in Japan

This month, the New York gallery celebrates its sesquicentennial with an exhibition on its most famous paintings and clients

Andrew Fabricant will shortly be opening an office in New York

With the Shanghai Museum expanding this month, a modern art museum planned for two years hence and a dozen serious commercial galleries likely in 1997

8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach

Why I prefer decorative arts