Collectors

What Chinese collectors are really buying

China is the world’s largest art market—even if the figures are disputed (see above). The numbers vary according to whose research you read, but the French site Artprice claims that in 2011, China... MORE

Published online: 17 May 2012

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French supermarket boss wants to put contemporary art in a countryside landscape

Michel-Edouard Leclerc plans gallery for former convent and shop complex

Published online: 15 May 2012

Interview with Martin Bethenod, director of Palazzo Grassi, Venice

As the private gallery of the French billionaire collector hosts its first solo show by a living artists, we speak to the director about its future plans

Published online: 14 May 2012

Pinchuk’s Future Generation Prize extends deadline

Artists of any nationality aged up to 35 can apply to win the $100,000 award, funded by the Ukrainian collector’s foundation

Published online: 09 May 2012

Peabody Essex to get all dressed up

Iris Apfel donates highlights of her wardrobe to help create textiles gallery

Published online: 01 May 2012

Two museums promised a third of one of the great collections of modern American art

Which poses the question: will the late Hannelore Schulhof’s heirs sell major works?

Published online: 05 April 2012

Randy Rembrandt

Move over Mera Rubell and Rosa de la Cruz: another Miami matriarch is also collecting up a storm. Her face may grace taxicabs rather than...

The Duke stacks up

It may come as a surprise, but Prince Philip is an avid reader of remaindered books, which are sold with at least a 50% discount off the...

What Dasha did next (a new art mag...)

In a saturated market, what exactly will be different about the new art magazine set to be launched in September by Dasha Zhukova,...