Magnificent Man Rays turn out to be too good to be true, throwing doubt over other collections of his work
Unsurprisingly, most of these collections strongly represent the art of their own country
Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989
Former mutual-fund manager pits his taste against the market
Museums and collectors should hasten to protect their rights in this field
Inspired by the Tate’s plans for Bankside, she gave the museum one third of her massive collection of modern art
The donation will strengthen the museum’s holdings with major paintings by Americans such as Philip Guston, Leon Golub, Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning
The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals
A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware
Photographer and film director Yonfan has given eight Chinese paintings to the Musée Guimet in Paris
100 to be sold, including Thomas Cromwell from the studio of Hans Holbein
Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth gets twenty-six works from the blue-chip Staechelin collection on a three-year loan
The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed
Baroque paintings given to National Gallery of Ireland instead
A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors
One of Europe’s greatest private collections of medieval material and works of art from antiquity to the twentieth century is now on view in Ireland
Talley Dunn of Gerald Peters Gallery states with pride that “The art community as a whole is growing”
Eugene Victor Thaw on the transformation of tribal art
The multi-millionnaire has family connections with a Chinese, State-run armaments company
Commercial galleries with common goals banding together
The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.
The shopping-mall millionare has been wooed by museums all over the world, but Dallas looks set to benefit from generosity in the great American tradition
David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style
Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts
Veteran collector and lobbyist for the arts opposes introduction of entrance fees
His motivations to sell remain unclear
Clarence House is full of treasures
Collectors fear changes to export regulations after British departure
But £60 can still buy you quality
Christie’s succeeds with the sale of goods recently in the trade and much restored