Prevailing gloom did not deter buying

Why collectors of 19th-century painting are crossing over into photography

Collectors were cautious as economic woes continue

The difference between Japanese and European taste in the field of Japanese art

Sophisticated collectors are crossing over from 19th- and 20th-century painting

The event has become the main venue for collectors in this field

The loss-making site is shutting down its UK offices

Collectors are buying for sun-drenched second homes

Twentieth-century decorative arts market may shift to local firms and Phillips

As other items become inaccessible to some collectors, many in the middle market have turned to textiles

Just as social observers are deploring the hectic roster of arts fairs, three new events have been added to the already crowded calendar.

SOFA fair report '01

Few dealers, scarce material, but a growing audience

From Shang to the present, Asian art in all its diversity

Collectors defy mini-blizzard

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

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

And bounty of decorative arts including Chinese porcelain and Mendini furniture

And a wider range of stock attracts more collectors

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

The president and executive director of Knoedler’s encourages collectors to become museum patrons and supplies major museums with works of art

Picasso for the blind at Wildenstein and a bevy of Latin American paintings exhibitions

Rising prices and increasing prestige for certain artists as collectors awake to Modernism’s sleepers

Twenty-two new dealers participating from Pelham Galleries to Helly Nahmad

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

Shows include the first retrospective of images by Hiro at Pace/MacGill and Todd Eberle's computer portraits

“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts