Collectors

Swiss collector’s Chinese art to go on show in Bern

Two museum exhibitions will feature works that Uli Sigg has acquired since 2005

The generation game: the women behind the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation

Around 300 pieces from the Swiss organisation's sizeable art collection is on display at the Schaulager

Collectors emerge from behind the Iron Curtain

In east central Europe private collectors are leading the way, both promoting local talent and bringing international art to their countries

Collectors join forces to co-commission digital art

Partnerships are on the rise as ways to sell the moving image proliferate

Collectors are calling the shots at Art Basel and beyond

Roles in flux as patrons establish private museums and foundations or work directly with artists

Yaruba prince to build museum for his Lagos collection

Pan Atlantic University will provide the land for Prince Yemisi Shyllon's institution

Time running out for Casa Daros in Rio

City’s mayor offers public support to keep Swiss-based collection’s space open

Gambling millionaire bets on YBA works

David Walsh to sell Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary along with pieces by Chapman Brothers, Damien Hirst and Jenny Saville

Images from the dark days of colonial rule

Collection of politically inspired works by artists from the Congo on the market

‘Commerce is in. If real estate is booming, art is booming’

Property tycoon Aby Rosen, promoting his new Manhattan skyscraper, talks about art-world fatigue and giving something back to society

Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick: one of Europe's greatest collectors

His outstanding collection secured his legacy, says Joachim Whaley

Billionaire collector puts Kiev museum on hold

Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian billionaire who has run a private gallery in Kiev since 2006, has shelved plans to build an “iconic” new museum in the city. “Now is not the time to build in Ukraine,” he tells The Art Newspaper. In 2011, Pinchuk revealed that he was planning to hire a top international architecture firm to create a “landmark building” in Kiev within five years. But Russia’s military incursion into the country has halted his ambitions, at least for now. It has also hit his business hard. Pinchuk’s pipe manufacturing company, Interpipe, currently has no revenue from Russia, once its main market, according to Forbes.

Private museums band together at London's Art15 fair

International collectors plan to share exhibitions and co-commission works of art

Mexican collector plans to build university and museum in Miami

Gina Diez Barroso opened Centro university for design and media in Mexico City in 2004

Meet Woking’s answer to Roman Abramovich

Football club owner has built large collection, with more than 150 Modern British works on public display

Collectorsfeature

Why Prada has gone antique: in ancient Rome, copying was cool

Archaeology professor Salvatore Settis explains why Prada’s Milan Foundation opens with a show of Roman versions of original Greek sculptures

Artnews

Mariette, prints and drawings supremo

Howard Coutts on the work of the 18th-century collector and connoisseur

Grand designs on Soane’s London home

Visitors can see the architect’s newly restored living quarters for the first time in 160 years

Chinese billionaire’s buying spree continues unabated

Liu Yiqian bought a Song Dynasty <i>guan</i> vase for $14.7m at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this week

Lawsuitsarchive

Barbara Allbritton sues IRS for $40.6m tax refund

The collector is arguing that no transfer of ownership of her collection ever took place

Otto Dixarchive

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

Indonesiaarchive

Oei Hong Djien, the controversial collector aiming to build a history of Indonesia’s Modern art

New film shows a scene dogged by lack of institutional support and alleged fakes

Booksarchive

Larry Warsh explores buyers’ behaviour in new book

The avid collector is trying to understand why acquiring art can be such a compulsion

Art marketarchive

Recognising Taiwan as a major player in the contemporary art market

Taiwan has more major buyers than its neighbour China, with more than 1,000 voracious collectors

Musée des Confluences in Lyons pays tribute to city’s great collector Émile Guimet

Guimet's collection will be displayed in a new museum, which has 2.2 million objects and space for temporary shows

Ashmolean to return silver salt cellar to Jewish collector’s heirs

The UK Spoliation Advisory Panel concluded that the piece was the subject of a forced sale in the 1930s

Disputesarchive

Gagosian and Perelman urged to settle dispute

Many famous figures of the art world are caught up in the drama

The Rubells: 50 years and looking to the future

The collectors celebrate their wedding anniversary with a new exhibition