Court says non-professional buyers do not have to check “provenance”

The president and executive director of Knoedler’s encourages collectors to become museum patrons and supplies major museums with works of art

Picasso for the blind at Wildenstein and a bevy of Latin American paintings exhibitions

A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming

Rising prices and increasing prestige for certain artists as collectors awake to Modernism’s sleepers

Works from the Southeast Asian countries vie with the more traditional Chinese and Japanese selections

The welcome failure of droit de suite, the impact of internet sales and the future of YBAs and optimism about the Tate Modern

Geoffrey Munn gives an insider view of the last year

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

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

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

She is the bridge between the private collector and the public

In memory of the man behind Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein

100 collectors have been flown in for the contemporary art event

Corrupt military officials in cahoots with Thai art dealers are hacking away at the temples

Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever

Mammon’s shrine in the groves of academe

100 galleries make their yearly migration

Asian art and antiquities are strongly represented

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

Survival hints (just in case)

The art market strengthened and the salerooms saw their profits leap, however the pre-tax profits of dealers fell

Art Basel ’98 fair report

The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals

Top lots go to private collectors, but the Italian State and European dealers put up a fight

Photography sales on a high with prices continuously increasing

Cologne's title as contemporary art capital is yet to be challenged with Berlin still in the fragmentary stages

Unprecedented alliance between auction house and art and antiques fair