Collectors defy mini-blizzard

Tajan and PIASA lead the list

Prices are rocketing, but perhaps not everything is right in this field with many experts questioning the authenticity of some pieces

Valentine’s Day sale for Davide Halevim’s farewell to the carpet trade

From Great British to stellar American art

But the local market is contracting

Leading “open” auction house seeks financing, wants to sell major paintings

End of auction monopoly still awaited

Bacon executor denies parallels with its own case

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

"Photography and prints are the way forward for on-line sales" say e-commerce pioneers

Metropolitan Monet subject to claim

Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Wood and Cecily Brown prove that it’s never too soon to be an auction star

Paintings and decorative arts prove harder to sell

The market is driven by supply and demand and not by collectors’ taste, says veteran dealer in Asian art

A new French revolution?

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

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

And bounty of decorative arts including Chinese porcelain and Mendini furniture

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

A doctor in a remote village in the Congo, part of Dr Rau's thousand-strong collection is on display now in Paris.

And a wider range of stock attracts more collectors

The French chairman of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey and Phillips auction houise may turn the publication into a luxury lifestyle magazine

The collections of two museums in Grozny have disappeared and the region’s distinctive stone towers are caught in the crossfire

Meanwhile there is clutter in the Cabinet, recent Kossoffs at Annely Juda, and randomised exactitude at Corvi-Mora

As the SOFA fair of contemporary decorative arts comes to New York, we talk to a leading dealer in the field

These collectors agree that the market has risen so much as to make buying almost impossible

Glenn Lowry, director of MoMA, discusses the new internet alliance that marks the first time museums will use their expertise and reputations for online commercial ventures