This time, the two programs in the run focus on contemporary works.

This year it seems more dealers than ever are showing contemporary and late-20th-century works.

At each auction, about 80 percent of the contemporary works offered were sold.

It has also given more than 500 modern and contemporary works from its collection to 25 American museums.

There was more give and take in two contemporary works.

The world's premier international art show for modern and contemporary works.

Of the 13 shows it has produced, nine have been contemporary works.

The contemporary works that made up the rest of the program were less consistently successful.

So did the fact that all the contemporary works offered at either auction house were well under $1 million.

But the most interesting objects are the contemporary works of art.