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

The ailing fair has brought in radical new measures including a party with the President at the Elysée Palace to encourage collectors and improve the standard of exhibitors

Ex-Sotheby’s David Nash opens as dealer, Paula Cooper relaunches, and Rauschenberg flirts with PaceWildenstein

Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious

Daniel Katz, Britain’s leading sculpture dealer, has a major exhibition in London this month. He describes his thirty-year career and his undimmed passion for art

Five bidders competed for a Hirst painting

After leaving Berlin in 1937, Berggruen will be placing his collection - which will go on show this autumn - on a ten-year loan with the Berlin State Museums

Controversial stately sell-off

Money from finance, industry and the law fund some of the city’s leading buyers and contemporary art is high on their agenda

Rapid advances as new companies model their catalogues and conditions of sale on Western models