Auction houses

Art marketarchive

Drouot to close for FFr40 million revamp

Fury at likely choice of railway warehouse as temporary replacement

Phillipsarchive

A new head of Asian art at Phillips: Interview with Colin Sheaf

“London remains a huge centre for collectors all over Europe”

Art marketarchive

Ads for art get professional with a $6 million budget for eyestorm.com

A slick campaign of prominent ads for multiples by contemporary artists is being counted in London, New York and San Francisco

Art marketarchive

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

Art marketarchive

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

Art marketarchive

Databases of stolen art can help thwart art thieves and promote vigilance

Registering items in such databases can bring peace of mind

June 1998archive

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

Art marketarchive

A strong local identity in the LA market

Twentieth-century design, Western and Latin American art, movie memorabilia and jewellery dominate the auctions

Art Baselarchive

A teeny bit middle-aged: Art Basel 1997

Our correspondent warns against doing what the auction houses do just as well

Art marketarchive

Partnerships in the French auction market

Commissaire-priseurs unite in preparation for 1998

Art marketarchive

Chinese privatise their auction scene

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

Art marketarchive

Phillips moves into Judaica sales in New York

A difficult market now centred on Israel and Amsterdam

Don’t just berate the thieves: look at the museums and excavators too

In the last of our series which publishes talks given in London this summer, Professor Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology and art at Oxford, singles out three areas for concern.

Art marketarchive

Is New York taking over from London for Old Master drawings?

Christie's cancel a London sale and European dealers are flocking to the US to buy and sell

Art marketarchive

As more private libraries are put on the block, the question arises ⁠—are we running out of old libraries?

Some of Europe’s oldest collections have recently been broken up: are there many left, and who is buying the books?

Giacometti retrospective to be held at New York's Acquavella Galleries Inc.

Acquavella's good name has guaranteed the participation of several distinguished lenders

Art marketarchive

Brodsky tables bills to restrict the freedoms of N.Y. auction houses

Populist legislation involves no more “chandelier” bids, loans to buyers, or secret reserve

Baselarchive

New branch of Sotheby’s to be located in Basel

Ruedi Staechelin appointed leadership role