Contemporary art
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Dealers and collectors alike come here to see the city and its contemporary art world take shape but immediate sales were limited
Talley Dunn of Gerald Peters Gallery states with pride that “The art community as a whole is growing”
The change of regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo coincided with thefts from the Institut des Musées Nationaux
A history of how Documenta has changed with the times
The stands in this fair cost only SFr 4,000
A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows
Europe’s grandest modern art fair will be bigger than ever this year, with collectors and museum curators from all over the world
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
Commercial galleries with common goals banding together
Electronic artists have time on their side in global exhibition
The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.
Financier unveils his new museum in Sintra’s former Casino with a collection formed in just four years
David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style
The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton
“Inside the visible” is on show until 8 December
Bringing together Picasso and Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois and Basquiat, Lam and the new Latin Americans, Jean-Hubert Martin and Achille Bonito Oliva
The sculptures of Louise Nevelson and political paintings of Léon Golub, from the US, the ArtePovera of Alighiero Boetti from Italy, the historic legends of Anselm Kiefer and wax figures of Thomas Schütte, both from Germany
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
A response to critic Andrew Graham-Dixon’s opinions on the power of images as expounded in his current BBC tv series
The gift was made by New York millionairess Elaine Dannheisser, who says her collection contains “a lot of tough art”
Money from finance, industry and the law fund some of the city’s leading buyers and contemporary art is high on their agenda
Austrian industrialist Joseph Froehlich is loaning major works of German and American art to the museum while Friends of the Tate contribute several new gifts
Despite the dilemmas posed by their work, Jake and Dinos Chapman's first major exhibition in a public gallery is opening in London
Rapid advances as new companies model their catalogues and conditions of sale on Western models
The artist's complicated oeuvre makes it hard to judge if some works are forged - or if instead he was just having an off day
However, there is still a marked lack of Spanish collectors
Italy's most discreet city has always favoured the avant-garde, now celebrated by this elegantly cerebral exhibition