Collecting
Art Institute of Chicago and London’s V&A keep pace with digital creativity in their collecting and curation
Techno-design is go for museum collections
Interview with Steve Martin: "I’ve never met anyone who collects cynically”
The polymath performer has written a novel set in the art world -should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?
Interview with Sir Peter Blake: “I made a conscious decision to be kind to younger artists”
The pop “godfather” on stuffed animals, the urge to collect and the burden of Sergeant Pepper
John Henry Merryman: Archaeologists are not helping debate over collecting antiquities
Merryman, a leading US theorist of cultural property law, argues that archaeologists are failing to acknowledge the complexity of the current debate on collecting antiquities
Is there an ongoing American Renaissance in contemporary art?
Spotlight shifts from German artists to their US counterparts as Saatchi, Rubells and others mount exhibitions of their work
Art consultant Philippe Segalot reveals his views on the market and which contemporary artists he thinks will stand the test of time
In the second extract from Adam Lindemann’s Collecting Contemporary, we learn that the most committed collectors also make the most money
This book argues that aristocratic collectors were the main cause of the emergence of a French School of painting
Shopping for France?
What are museums doing to collect, store and show internet art?
Ossian Ward investigates European and US perspectives and the issues of conservation and ownership
Diary of a US dealer: Douglas Heller. Crafting a market for contemporary glass
As the SOFA fair of contemporary decorative arts comes to New York, we talk to a leading dealer in the field
Cross-border buoyancy in the European Old Master market
Plotting national tastes and identifying certain general market trends
V&A Director Alan Borg says, “The idea of keeping museums separate from the trade needs to disappear, particularly for the contemporary world”
V&A edges toward the cutting edge—and commerce
The history of collecting: Not something to frighten the horses
An exhibition on the art in British country houses aims to show the public that these collections play a modern, vital role in the nation’s culture
Twenty-five Hermitage “treasures” gained as war loot still unclaimed
Watercolours and drawings seized by the Red Army in a Berlin bunker in 1945 have been on show in the Hermitage earlier this year for the first time
“We buy figureheads, busts, portraits, banners—at high prices”
Moscow author amasses a collection of depictions of Lenin and Stalin before they are destroyed