Collectors

Booksreview

A literary homage to Peggy Guggenheim that falls short

Historical fiction on the famed bohemian collector brings her relationships to life but leaves out much of what she actually achieved

MoMA PS1 receives $1m gift from trailblazing collector’s foundation

The gift to the New York contemporary art centre from the organisation named after David Teiger will help to fund an upcoming exhibition programme

How Craig Robins became a collector with an eye to the future, seen through the prism of the past

The Miami-based art lover and real estate developer refined his approach to acquisition and to promoting public art through a four-decade friendship with the conceptual art pioneer John Baldessari

Gen X are the biggest spenders on art as ‘speculative’ millennials drop back, latest UBS/Art Basel survey finds

The 200-page report, authored by Clare McAndrew, also revealed stable Chinese buying and buoyancy at the lower end of the market as top end softens

Tate shows works donated by Greek tycoon Dimitris Daskalopoulos

Philanthropic gift of over 110 works integrated into displays at Tate Modern, Britain and St Ives

Collector’s eye: the art Heejae Kang has bought and why

The fashion entrepreneur took her time to deliberate when buying an expensive black balloon and finds that Louise Bourgeois’s works resonate with her on a sensual level

Technologyfeature

Can internet-born platforms fashion a print market fit for Gen Z collectors?

Digital players focus on transparent, algorithmically driven analytics to appeal to a younger base for whom the medium is cool. But that data still needs informed interpretation

New collector-backed Taipei museum faces criticism for steep ticket prices

Fubon Art Museum, whose chief executive has links to one of the world’s richest finance companies, is charging a $37 standard entrance fee

Art marketanalysis

As collectors’ tastes for ornate interiors ebbs, challenges to the trade rise

The popularity of the ‘less is more’ look is putting art and antiques dealers under pressure

UK politicsanalysis

What will the UK's new Labour government mean for the art trade?

From the end of tax breaks on overseas income to new anti-money laundering laws, experts weigh in on what we can expect from the change

Booksreview

Who really was John Soane? The man and manifesto behind the magnificent house museum

Former museum director Bruce Boucher’s room-by-room account of the architect’s collection takes far readers beyond the catalogue

Julius Bryant

Florida hedge-fund manager building art park for prized Richard Serra sculpture

After abandoning a private museum project in Miami, Bruce Berkowitz will create a verdant art destination in the Florida panhandle

More than 80% of young, wealthy Americans want to collect art, survey finds

Bank of America surveyed more than 1,000 US citizens with more than $3m in assets for their poll of high-net-worth individuals

Peggy Guggenheim's time in Petersfield before she purchased her Venice palazzo

Before becoming an art collector extraordinaire, Peggy Guggenheim lived for five transformational years in the deepest Hampshire countryside

Art marketanalysis

Does the De la Cruz collection sale mark the end of an era?

Reduced value, mixed results dent idea of contemporary art as investable asset

Nazi-loot panel set up by private Swiss collection to evaluate painting by Hodler

The painting, purchased by the real estate magnate Bruno Stefanini in 1998, was once owned by a Jewish woman who fled Hitler’s Germany

'Sometimes missing something creates an opportunity down the road': Pete Scantland on avoiding non-buyer's remorse

The Ohio-based collector and board president at the Columbus Museum of Art talks about finding an unusual spot to place a Carol Bove work and the Louis Fratino that got away

Nicolas Berggruen opens contemporary art space in Venice palazzo

It is the largest contemporary art venue to open in the city since the launch of François Pinault’s Punta della Dogana 15 years ago

Patrizia Sandretto’s Venice venue nears completion

San Giacomo di Paludo is expected to open next year, but visitors to this year’s Biennale can still take in a performance

New book celebrates collector Eileen Harris Norton’s role in shaping Los Angeles's art scene

Norton, who is also the co-founder of the non-profit Art + Practice, has championed the work of women artists and artists of colour in the city

Collectorsinterview

Collector Eugenio López Alonso on his museum’s tenth anniversary and Mexico City’s rising profile in the art world

Visitors to the city during Zona Maco can also take in Museo Jumex’s anniversary group show, curated by New Museum director Lisa Philips

Masterpieces from the Barbier-Mueller African and Oceanic Art collection to be sold at Christie's in Paris

The auction next month will include 100 pieces acquired by Josef Müller and his family

Philanthropy reinvented for a new generation of collectors—now with financial perks

New charitable schemes mirror shifts in attitudes to collecting and giving among younger art buyers

Miami collector John Marquez’s foundation opens—at last

Long-awaited launch of Marquez Art Projects will strengthen the local scene

Works from Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s collection will go on view at the Brooklyn Museum

The couple will also donate select (as yet unspecified) pieces from their personal holdings to the museum

Hamburg art collector and patron Harald Falckenberg dies aged 80

Falckenberg, one of Germany’s most important private art collectors, once said he was drawn to “outsiders and freaks"

Oligarch Files investigation reveals $963m art collection of Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova

Mondrian, Magritte and Freud are among the masterpieces acquired by the sanctioned Russian billionaire, according to a report by The Guardian

Forthcoming New York exhibition on women artists will present Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg’s collection to the public for the first time

The couple have put together a major collection of 300 works by mostly modern and contemporary women artists