This year has served as a good barometer of the Modern art market

SOFA fair report '01

Limited international collectors, but American museums, local collectors, tourists and children out in force

The director of the world’s top modern and contemporary art fair prides himself on the new talent it has discovered

Special viewings arranged for expected international collectors

Collectors defy mini-blizzard

A diverse offering of Chinese, Japanese, Southeast Asian and contemporary art

Increased attendance, sales, and quality marks a good year for the fair

From next year, modern and contemporary art dealers will congregate in Florida

Fifty-two participants will exhibit everything from Indian statue jewels to Islamic tiles

Renaissance jewels (and a master faker revealed), maiolica, Empire and eighteenth-century French lacquer furniture, the life of women between Orient and Europe, Art Deco, Finnish painting, the Brueghels and art from Oceania

The art fair is 63% non-German this year

Despite the opening of Tate Modern, which lured away many buyers, the fair was generally a success

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