Collectors
Loading...
And the nominees for the real-life patron who inspired “Maw Clampette” are...
Tributes pour in for the Indonesian-Chinese businessman who founded the Yuz Museum Shanghai in 2014
Mario Bertolini’s vast collection of Modern art, amassed over his lifetime and donated to the museum in 2014, is at the centre of a claim seeking to invalidate the acquisition
A new code aims to introduce more transparency to the business of buying
Individuals and companies have been targeted by the UK, US and EU over the invasion of Ukraine
The middle market, traditionally the art world’s unloved child, offers treats galore
The "professional Yorkshireman" had more than 3,600 pieces including the likes of Lucie Rie and Bernard Leach
Collector Danny First is extending his homegrown programme beyond the walls of a replica of the Unabomber's nerve centre
Benefactors of his gifts include London's National Gallery, Tate Britain, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Royal Opera House
Chinese collector Michael Xufu Huang was covertly buying works on behalf of the Monaco-based Federico Castro Debernardi for a 10% commission. But then he got stung
The Smithsonian commissioned the composer to create a performance responding to an exhibition of objects from the illustrious Tibetan Buddhist art collection of Alice Kandell
Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London
The Oracle Corporation co-founder owns the painting that hung above J.F. Kennedy’s hotel bed on the morning of his assassination—and the president’s final telephone call was about Van Gogh
Buying a work and donating another to a museum sounds like a win-win—but who really benefits?
The London-based collector tells us what she has bought and why
The Norwegian collector tells us what he has bought and why
In this adapted excerpt from her new book, The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum, Georgina Adam examines the motivations of collectors who founded their own art spaces
The Basel-based collector tells us what he's bought and why
The state-backed online "museum" plans a physical exhibition later this year at the Ethihad Museum
Businessman behind the Museu Coleção Berardo in Lisbon, one of Portugal's most visited museums, allegedly owes nearly €1bn
Provençal offshoot of Hubert Bonnet’s Brussels art space doubles as a five-room guest house
With baseball cards selling for $5.2m each and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet making $2.9m, people will collect anything if its rare and makes them nostalgic
Painting is the only surviving contemporary image of the monarch
The self-made billionaire helped shape the Los Angeles art scene, while clashing with most of its prominent museum leaders
Lee Kun-hee, the Samsung Electronics chairman who died in October, leaves collection worth $2.2bn, including works by Monet, Dali and Chagall
“I support so many artists and I’d like to provide exhibition opportunities for them,” says the controversial dealer and art advisor
After long-running row over the bequest of 19th-century collector Hugh Lane, new deal adds two paintings to rotating loan and greater collaboration between the two museums
Old outbuildings on the actor's estate will be knocked down to make way for the studio—and provisions will be made for the protected bats that live there
Gongshi—whose unusual forms are created by years of river erosion—have long been highly prized in Asia. Now they are garnering admirers in the West
