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Christie’s offers cover to collectors

Auction house Christie’s is to start selling insurance to its UK and European clients to cover possessions, from works of art to cars, yachts and jewellery

Frieze art fair: Mix of worldly and weird

Despite the talk of crisis in the air, dealers are reporting brisk trade and collectors are turning out in large numbers to take advantage of reduced prices, writes Peter Aspden

Antiques rise as investors seek shelter

Prices for traditional arts and antiques are continuing to outstrip those for contemporary work as investors look to shelter savings by buying safer assets

Art world fails to brighten economic mood

The financial crisis has hit the contemporary art world as once-glitzy galleries are having to tighten their belts and auctions are being scaled down

HK becomes Sotheby’s largest fine wine market

Hong Kong has become the world’s largest fine wine market for Sotheby’s so far this year after the auction house sold $7.9m worth of rare bottles at the weekend to deep-pocketed Asian collectors

Art prices likely to be hammered at NY auctions

Sotheby’s expects its contemporary art auction to generate less than a quarter of the sales it did a year ago as art auctions take a hit this year as a result of the global economic downturn

Merryn Somerset Webb: Enjoy art for art’s sake

The great contemporary art boom was just another bubble. There was never a shortage of supply and demand was more speculative than rational – as perhaps all art investment always is

Art prices fall 35% as collectors cash in

Art prices plunged during the first quarter of the year as cash-strapped collectors looked to unload works by postwar masters that had earlier boomed in price along with the stock market

Dubai’s art fair defies gloomiest forecasts

The emirate’s economy may still be in a bit of a funk because of the global slowdown, but its nascent art market appears to be holding up better than its tumbling property sector

Old Masters remain unscathed by the downturn

The weaker pound and the bias for ‘safe-haven’ investment art are fuelling demand for traditional masterpieces, says Susan Moore

Reassuring picture for art market

Successful sales calm jittery art market

Arts investment paints mixed picture

Top-notch art oils the wheels of lending

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