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

Bought since the 80s, the eight Dutch and Flemish paintings include Rembrandt and Sweerts

Top Taiwanese dealer Jeff C.F. Hsu gives an exceptionally detailed analysis with names of leading figures in the market and where to find what kind of art

The film star was a serious pioneer collector

The Becket casket and Guercino are just two works of art saved for Britain with money from a Hong Kong lawyer

Why I prefer decorative arts

The chocolate magnate both infuriated and stimulated the German art scene for nearly thirty years

The works on paper will begin their nomadic existence at the Teylers Museum

It has been well received in Britain. In Los Angeles, there are divided opinions on the collection and its owner

After leaving Berlin in 1937, Berggruen will be placing his collection - which will go on show this autumn - on a ten-year loan with the Berlin State Museums

A museum of chaos to make men marvel

Money from finance, industry and the law fund some of the city’s leading buyers and contemporary art is high on their agenda