Collectors

Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey gets treasure trove of Soviet dissident art

The collection of more than 20,000 works by 1,000 artists from throughout the former USSR was secretly amassed over decades by the US economist Norton Dodge

Lawnews

Appeals court allows heir to renew claim against Nahmad family over Modigliani painting

The convoluted case involves suspected Nazi loot, the Panama Papers leak and a shadowy shell company

Japanese billionaire sends $110m Basquiat on 'world tour'

Yusaku Maezawa broke the news on Instagram, saying he hopes the work will be “loved by people all over the world”

Indonesia's grassroots scene gains major private museum

Collector founds Museum Macan to fill gap in country's cultural infrastructure

Lawnews

Court orders release of Mugrabi family’s art being held 'hostage' by storage firm

Mana Contemporary must deliver five works in exchange for $1m—or turn over the entire collection within 24 hours

Dennis and Debra Scholl donate contemporary Aboriginal art to three US museums

The Miami collectors have given 200 Australian works to the Met, Frost and Nevada Museum of Art

US returns 95 works from money laundering banker’s collection to Brazil

The works were smuggled out of the country by Edemar Cid Ferreira and have been gradually repossessed over the past decade

Double Dutch: MFA Boston gets aligned gifts of 17th-century Netherlandish art, with work by Rubens, Rembrandt and van Dyck

The donation—the largest in the museum’s history—also include funds for a new study centre dedicated to the period

Strong early sales at Frieze pierce the Brexit gloom

Dealers feel little impact as female artists prove popular and US collectors return

Frieze 2017interview

Collector's Eye: Eugenio Re Rebaudengo

Art lovers tell us what they've bought and why

Early sales at Frieze London

Collectors flocked to Lehmann Maupin's and Jack Shainman's stands

Frieze 2017interview

Collector's eye: Huma Kabakci

Art lovers tell us what they've bought and why

Frieze 2017interview

Collector's Eye: Anita Zabludowicz

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

Chinese hotelier-collector opens Shanghai's newest private museum

Zheng Hao's How Art Museum shares works with his 'art hotel'

Wright to auction the personal collection of Hudson, iconoclastic gallerist and artists’ champion, in Chicago

The man behind Feature Inc is remembered for his challenging eye—and a fraught relationship with the market

Frank Cohen’s collection goes on the block down under

Sale at Mossgreen in Melbourne has Asian contemporary focus and aims to appeal to expatriate community

David Tang, fashion entrepreneur and Chinese art collector, dies aged 63

Founder of fashion brand Shanghai Tang displayed pieces from his collection in his clubs and restaurants

Construction boss Jack Kirkland’s collection gets Sheffield outing

Majority of works going on show at Graves Gallery have never been seen in the UK before

'Warehouse' of Italian art comes to Hudson Valley

Magazzino's opening displays pay tribute to the dealer who championed Arte Povera

Julia Stoschek Collection celebrates 10 years with generation spanning video show

Exhibition curated by Ed Atkins includes work by Bruce Nauman, Jordan Wolfson and Lucy Raven

Agnes Gund urges collectors to sell their art to fight for justice

The philanthropist used her profits from the sale of a Roy Lichtenstein painting to create a criminal justice fund, in partnership with the Ford Foundation

US billionaire Thomas Kaplan plans to send collection of Dutch Old Masters to Russia

Hermitage and Pushkin museums could show Leiden Collection in 2018

Marciano Foundation unveiled to the Los Angeles public

The private museum is lodged in a former Masonic temple

Old Masters and Impressionist art from the record-setting Stillman Collection to be auctioned at Christie’s

Sales of works throughout the year will benefit the late philanthropist and land conservationist’s Wethersfield Foundation

David Rockefeller, banker, philanthropist and lifetime MoMA patron, dies at age 101

The former chairman’s ties to the institution reach back to his mother Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who helped found the museum

Collector’s eye: Wanwan Lei and Lin Han

Art lovers talk about the best and worst works they’ve bought

Latin America’s power collectors wooed at Arco

The Spanish fair is targeting the region’s art patrons, with a report highlighting the top 100 names on the scene

Time’s up for Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum’s loan agreement with Carmen Cervera

More than 400 works from the baroness’s collection may be removed from the Madrid museum, but the Spanish culture minister hopes to reach a deal this week

Who is Hasso Plattner whose spectacular museum has opened near Berlin?

The software billionaire gives us a tour of the Barberini Museum in Potsdam

Maison Rouge, category-defying art space in Paris, to close in 2018

Gallerist and collector Antoine de Galbert says he wants to go out on a high