Private collections
UBS art goes on show at MoMA
Founder Donald Marron has been instrumental in the acquisition of classic Modern and contemporary art
Tate refused previous offer from Saatchi
Serota said no to 100 works in 1998, but is still keen to buy “major” pieces
Collector profile: Norman Braman and the Indian Creek residence furnished with contemporary masterpieces
The car tycoon has put together one of the greatest private collections of classic American art. Where does it go now?
Rubell family transform their private collection into major museum complex
In the space of just a year, a former US Drug Enforcement Warehouse has been expanded to 40,000 square feet and now includes 18 new galleries, a conservation laboratory, a library and a sculpture garden
Did Tate miss its chance to get the Saatchi Collection?
The greatest contemporary art collector in Britain says he was ready to offer all his art to gallery director Nicholas Serota—but his proposal was not pursued
Collectors in Washington State targeted in art tax enquiry
Agents are looking at art in museums to determine whether “use tax” was paid
Top Swiss collection of Modernist art on long-term loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel
Up until this point, the works were in the custody of a foundation established by the Im Obersteg family subsequent to their purchase
Andrew Lloyd Webber as collector: A Henry Tate for the 21st century?
The man behind hit musicals such as “Cats” and “The Phantom of the Opera” has been buying Victorian art assiduously for the last 40 years. This month his extraordinary collection goes on public view at the Royal Academy
Joseph Beuys on show at Gagosian Gallery
Works from a private collection will tour both the London and New York arms of the super-gallery
One of the oldest and largest collections of classical antiquities in the US is now on view in a new installation
Worlds intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks and Romans
Berlin museums consider the Flick collection rejected by Zurich
The contemporary art belongs to the grandson of Nazi industrialist, Friedrich Flick
The Joule Archive to go on show at Barbican: Will the real Mr Bacon please stand up?
A second exhibition of Barry Joule’s collection, left to him by Francis Bacon his former neighbour, is still a matter of dispute with the Bacon Estate
Is Steve Wynn’s fabled art collection in play as MGM Grand bid for Mirage Resorts?
Casinos at war: art in the crossfire
Lloyd Webber pre-Raphaelite export exhortation
The 300 paintings and drawings in the Makins collection include works by Millais, Holman Hunt, Rossetti and Burne-Jones
Copenhagen gets treated to exhibition of substantial private Kahlo collection
The Dolores Olmedo Patiño collection—the world’s largest of the artist’s work—is on tour
José Berardo’s collection goes public
Financier unveils his new museum in Sintra’s former Casino with a collection formed in just four years
Collector profile: Raymond Nasher, the world’s biggest private collector of modern sculpture
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
The Queen Mother is revealed to be a top collector
Clarence House is full of treasures
The collectors and the artists they choose to collect
Gemma de Angelis Testa, Eliana Guglielmi, Corrado Levi, Marcello Levi, Marco Rivetti, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Turin shows hidden talent at Castello di Rivoli as six top collectors go public this month
Italy's most discreet city has always favoured the avant-garde, now celebrated by this elegantly cerebral exhibition
“The world cannot afford many more collectors with a passion for antiquities”
As the Getty Museum opens an exhibition of the Fleischman collection of antiquities, Ricardo Elia, professor of archaeology at Boston University, argues that showcasing private collections only encourages the looting of archaeological sites.
Does art still need collectors? Where these days should the notion of collector end and that of custodian begin?
Several stakeholders weigh in
Collecting and collectors are the material of a new museum opening this month as part of the Pushkin Museum
Russia changing stance: It was all a terrible mistake, we love collectors really!
Baselitz the outlaw: German banker's extensive collection to comprise one-man exhibition
The works will be displayed at the Palazzo delle Stelline before coming to rest in the Kunsthalle Bremen
Brian Sewell treads the fine line between enthusiasm and aberration while marveling that no scientific treatise on the psychology of collecting exists
Are collectors deranged?
Alain Delon collection auction: Delon sells a Modigliani “to buy a super Modigliani”
Japanese buyers come away with large proportion of lots
Marcos Collection shines in upcoming Christie's sale
Fresh information has confirmed the importance of the works which will be put on the block
Theft of the Soviet Union's largest private collection of Western European and Russian art
Soviet collectors appeal for protection from KGB