Private collections
How do US taxpayers value their art collections? With great difficulty
Possible penalties for donors and heirs make the process of determining the value of artworks a high-wire act
London to get free, permanent David Bowie display as Victoria and Albert Museum acquires archive
Costumes, albums, lyrics and videos from 80,000-strong collection will go on show at the V&A East Storehouse from 2025
Glenn Brown—Gagosian-backed appropriator of Old Masters—to open London museum dedicated to his art
Hoping to increase his visibility, Brown will self-fund a Marylebone space that will combine his work with those of historic artists in his private collection
What’s with dictators and bad art?
Imelda Marcos is just one of a series of despots with appalling taste
How an Australian collector’s strings-attached gift paved the way for a new $36m museum
Shepparton Art Museum opened late last year but a ballooning budget and conflicting local politics have made led to a mixed reception
One of the world's biggest collections of German Expressionism heads to auction
Hermann Gerlinger had been loaning his 1,000 works to museums, but will now sell them through Munich-based auction house Ketterer Kunst
How a Milan museum won the battle to show the world’s most important private collection of Futurist art
Famous Mattioli collection loan will make Museo del Novecento “undoubtedly the most important centre for Futurist art” when it goes on display next spring
Qatari sheikh's treasures go on show at 'mini-Versailles' in Paris for the next 20 years
Collection of Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani finds a long-term home at the Hôtel de la Marine, the former repository of French royal furniture, art and jewels
Pressure mounts for Italy to buy Torlonia marbles—world's finest collection of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands
As a landmark exhibition in Rome draws to a close, government's plans for long-hidden group of ancient sculpture remain unclear
As French museums reopen, Loire region unveils Modern art collection in a Medieval abbey
The Fontevraud Modern Art Museum, housed in a 12th-century monastery’s former stables, will preserve more than 800 works donated by collectors Martine and Léon Cligman
As one private collector shuts down Berlin space, Julia Stoschek threatens to follow
Closure of Thomas Olbricht’s Me Collectors Room comes after collector Friedrich Christian Flick’s announcement he is ending his museum loan
Berlin museums announce ‘painful’ end to loan of 'one of the world’s most outstanding contemporary art collections'
Prestigious private Flick collection, including works by Giacometti, Duchamp and Bruce Nauman, has been on loan to Berlin for 17 years
Goodbye Gerhard: Deutsche Bank shrinks art collection
Troubled firm offloads some major works, but vows to continue buying emerging artists’ work
Rotterdam's Boijmans museum wants to make entire collection accessible to visitors
Vast €85m storage centre will show off thousands of works of art previously hidden from view
In search of art out of Africa: an interview with Jean Pigozzi
“I feel that at the time of the Medici they had my kind of rapport with their artists”
'Olyvia's soirées': adviser launches private selling events in format devised by Adam Chinn
Olyvia Kwok launches series of invitation only events in London and New York offering financing against big-ticket works for collectors looking to circumvent auctions
Germany's attempt to permanently retain Otto Dix print collection belonging to George Economou fails
Tycoon keeps 500-strong collection after German campaign to include it in national heritage list is thwarted
What happens when artists step into buyers' shoes: New Barbican exhibition "Magnificent Obsessions" showcases curio owned by the likes of Warhol and Hirst
Cookie jars and seven-legged lambs invite us to consider how distinctive styles emerged from the building blocks of various visual languages
The Rubells: 50 years and looking to the future
The collectors celebrate their wedding anniversary with a new exhibition
Digital access to Italian banks’ art
300,000 works owned by banks belonging to the Associazione Bancaria Italiana to become available to view online
Manchester collector Frank Cohen and Danish adviser Nicolai Frahm launch a London gallery in a former dairy
After facing a brick wall of bureaucracy in Manchester, the pair looked to the capital to share their collections with the public
Bettina Looram dies
The last surviving child of Baron Alphonse von Rothschild, of the Austrian branch of that family, dies aged 88.
Toronto theatre mogul David Mirvish to stage his own shows
Will the Canadian collector showcase his expansive modern art collection?
On the eve of his gallery’s 20th anniversary and its complete reinstallation with paintings, Charles Saatchi answers questions on the record for the first time ever
“I primarily buy art to show it off”
Rubells team up with Beijing’s Ullens Center
Collaborative show will open in December 2013
Polish-born collector Zdzislaw Bieganski to found museum in Malta
Works include Picasso and Van Gogh, but many are yet to be authenticated
Artipelag, Astrup Fearnley and co: why once-rare private museums are on the increase in Scandinavia
Private spaces show that tall poppies can grow in a Nordic climate
Impressive publication on the anonymous 'RA' collection of Chinese porcelain
Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos' three-volume catalogue is painstakingly researched and beautifully presented
Interview with collector Marc Straus on transitioning to dealing: “The gallery business is a terrible concept”
Despite reservations, the former oncologist and “fierce” collector has become a dealer in contemporary art
Rubells loan works to Fundación Banco Santander
"American Exuberance" is on view in Madrid 9 February to 27 May