"He embodies the D.I.Y. neighborhood spirit," said Becky Smith, a contemporary-art dealer who moved her gallery to Chelsea from Williamsburg.

More than two and a half times its size in 1999, it will feature 170 dealers chosen by an international committee of contemporary-art dealers.

Young British Artists Never mind that business is as slow for London's contemporary-art dealers as it is for nearly every other segment of the art market worldwide.

Often, contemporary-art dealers give new works by these artists only to their best customers or to museums.

The annual fair of the Art Dealers Association of America usually happens at the same time as the Armory Show, the gathering of contemporary-art dealers held on Piers 90 and 91.

Even contemporary-art dealers are jumping into the field.

A New Idea What's a contemporary-art dealer like Larry Gagosian doing showing an Old Master like Rubens?

Nor would he confirm reports from contemporary-art dealers that the Modern paid about $10 million for the triptych.

For months, Sotheby's wooed many top contemporary-art dealers and museum experts.

On our first meeting she accused me - a contemporary-art dealer at the time - of being among those who "killed painting."