Collectors

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

Will former Frieze chairman Robert Devereux’s collection of art from Africa and the diaspora return to the continent?

As the first public show of the work opens in the UK, the former Virgin partner says he is looking for an “appropriate recipient” for donation

Paris blockbuster exhibition of Shchukin’s Modern art collection extended

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally thanked Bernard Arnault at the Kremlin for hosting the show

How the estate of Thailand’s missing ‘Silk King’ was among the winners of Reagan’s 1986 Tax Reform Act

The sweeping legislation cleared a hefty tax bill for the heirs of American businessman Jim Thompson, whose home and collection in Bangkok was turned into a public museum

US collectors send Dutch Old Masters on world tour

Leiden Collection due to open at the Louvre next year before travelling to Shanghai, Beijing and Abu Dhabi through 2018

Gilbert collection returns to the V&A with one notable absence

Curators to bring collector's waxwork out of storage in 2018

Tasmanian collector David Walsh unveils his vision for an Aboriginal art park on Hobart’s waterfront

The culture complex at Macquarie Point will include a history centre, fire and light installations, and a contemporary art gallery

Paris museum agrees to strict terms to secure Post-Impressionist trove

Nashville-based couple's decision to send their 600-strong collection abroad raises eyebrows at home

Villa Flora collection finds new home at Kunstmuseum Bern

Around 100 works by artists like Van Gogh, Matisse, Manet, Cézanne, Renoir and Giacometti amassed by Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser-Bühler

Why museum leaders are organising shows for private collectors

With government funding harder to come by, museums must stay in the good graces of ultra-rich patrons

Russian collector repatriates 17th-century icon to Yaroslavl church

The picture, which was stolen in 1995, turned up in a gallery in Venice

ARTnews reveals 2016's top 200 collectors

Annual list of leading collectors boasts usual array of property developers, computer software designers and bankers

Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan collection to be sold in aid of historic London studios

Sotheby’s auction is expected to raise £600,000 towards restoration of Durham Wharf by architecture collective Assemble

Billionaires to build Chelsea home for coveted collection

Renaissance bronzes will take pride of place in Tom and Janine Hill’s private museum

German collectors turn their Düsseldorf home into an art gallery

Rosi and Rudolf Dahmen have converted a squash centre into a complex with an exhibition space and artist studios

Valeria Napoleone's all-female art collection hits the road

The London-based philanthropist partners with Museums Sheffield to show works by women artists

Marion Lambert: collector with a cause

The independent-minded philanthropist whose life was touched by tragedy

Billionaire collectors to open fourth museum in China

Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei are rapidly buying art to fill their growing museum empire

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