Art market
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
Experienced art dealers advise on how to survive during a time of economic confusion
Survival hints (just in case)
Winners and losers of the market 1996-97
The art market strengthened and the salerooms saw their profits leap, however the pre-tax profits of dealers fell
Collectors’ profile: “America’s model millionaires”
Computer-glitch software, Norton Utilities, has made the fortunes of Peter and Eileen Norton
First, target your audience: Marketing the Brooklyn Museum of Art
New director, Arnold Lehman, has raised the profile of America’s second largest museum in just one year by advertising
Marketing at MoMA: aim at the young professionals
Elizabeth Addison, head of marketing and communications, uses weekly surveys and focus groups to build brand awareness
Hammering their prices: contemporary art dealers at last month’s fair in Switzerland pin their prices to art auction results
Art Basel ’98 fair report
Kusama makes a comeback with three concurrent exhibitions this Summer
Zwirner turns his gallery into a sports bar for the World Cup
Databases of stolen art can help thwart art thieves and promote vigilance
Registering items in such databases can bring peace of mind
Twentieth-century design sales in the US... Tiffany glass continues to climb
Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings
Are auction houses creating a bigger market for all or squeezing out the competition?
In 1998 we reflected on Sotheby's and Christie's recent move to sell cutting edge contemporary art as being a watershed moment
Sainsbury's wedding present to fund Japanese cultural studies in East Anglia
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani
Craft swings into high gear at SOFA, New York.
Contemporary decorative arts from $68,000 fibre arts to $100,000 glass sculpture
Former film star Jacqueline Delubac's collection raises FFr30 million (£3 million; $5.1 million)
Last curtain call for haute couture collector
A survey of Ten Latin American collectors
Unsurprisingly, most of these collections strongly represent the art of their own country