It is presumed that investors prepared to pay an acceptable price could not be found

Amidst arrests regarding contraband and fake art importing

“VAT and droit de suite have destroyed the nation’s art market”

Christopher Wood's "The great art boom"

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

The 'futures' department aims at spotting the antiques of tomorrow

Report from the British Art Market Federation shows the UK art market employs 50,000 people

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

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

100 to be sold, including Thomas Cromwell from the studio of Hans Holbein

Photography sales on a high with prices continuously increasing

The paintings have been missing since 1945

An art dealer reads the small-print of a new Italian government regulation that enables its officials to “notify” works even when on temporary importation

A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors

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

Eugene Victor Thaw on the transformation of tribal art

Scholars say that famous paintings are not by the artist. Provenances difficult to prove

A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows

The Art Newspaper reporter saw a trend towards later Chinese art, satisfied dealers active museums buyers—and some worrying fakes

Accounting a-Gogo and a biennial's missing raison d’être

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.

A field with keen collectors and plenty of sleepers at the auctions to challenge the dealers

Tinseltown tunes into art as money and movies draw New York dealers, creating new collectors out of Hollywood royalty - though no one will kiss and tell

David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style

China is in the news more and more as its economy booms and Hong Kong gets handed back this summer; Chinese art is beginning to penetrate Western consciousness

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts

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

His motivations to sell remain unclear