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

As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York

Big names for private collectors and big sculptures for museum curators

Despite support from public institutions and a glittering collectors programme Art Forum needs a loyal and affluent clientele

Cultura must draw inspiration from its forerunner if it is to take advantage of collectors flocking to Basel

The contemporary fair switches on to new technology

With American classical furniture and decorative arts in close second place

100 collectors have been flown in for the contemporary art event

The coordination of the fair will be taken over by Messe Basel

Collectors came out in force, but much of the art on show was not as exciting as that seen at Venice or offered by the auction houses

As its commercial advantages become apparent, Basel gets on the Art Miami bandwagon

The show will exhibit colonial and European furniture, girlhood embroidery, Native American pieces, and folk art

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

Collectors from all over the world turned up with lots of money and confidence—and so did the British

Art Basel ’98 fair report

Contemporary decorative arts from $68,000 fibre arts to $100,000 glass sculpture

Stock market crashes and earthquakes shake but collectors were not so lively

Dealers and collectors alike come here to see the city and its contemporary art world take shape but immediate sales were limited

Unprecedented alliance between auction house and art and antiques fair

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

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

While women Abstract Expressionists come to Long Island, chilling still-lifes plus true confessions in Soho

Sixteen French dealers join the Anglo-Saxons with Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern art

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

But £60 can still buy you quality

Second fair surpasses first in sales for certain subjects

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

The fledgling fair will operate in tandem with the main fair, which has attracted 250 participants from twenty countries

However, there is still a marked lack of Spanish collectors