Collectors

Shop 'til you Pop art: Lebanese retail tycoon opens museum-mall in Beirut

At Tony Salamé’s $100m Aishti Foundation, visitors can see a major show of abstract works or shop in a string of luxury boutiques

Detroit art space opens with punchy pop of colour

Collector Gary Wasserman looks to the Motor City’s post-bankruptcy future with new interdisciplinary venue

Collectors can find a new niche at Frieze Masters

David Bailey’s torn portraits, sculpture from Borneo and netsuke put the eclectic into Collections

The Broad: as big as its founders’ influence

The art in Los Angeles’ new private museum is as titanic as the funding

Is it time for regional museums to woo big collectors?

Summit in Sheffield asks how arts organisations can attract private patronage

Was this unknown man Italy’s greatest collector?

Federico Cerruti died with a treasure-filled house in which he had slept only one night

Luciano Benetton’s collection presents a united view of the world’s cultures

But Venice exhibition is also full of political unrest and upheaval

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Collectors vs art advisers: the trouble with verbal contracts

The Maleki case exposes the perils of mixing business with friendship in the art world

Miami U-turns on hedge funder’s private museum after media savaging

City promises to clear any hurdles to allow Florida collector Bruce Berkowitz to share his art with the public

Collector turns Ibiza salt warehouse into Modern art gallery

Clubbers’ paradise is turning into unlikely culture destination

Private collector adds performance space to London gallery

David Roberts to show more ”live projects” in his Camden building—and may launch initiatives outside the capital

Writing is definitely not on the wall for drawings

Collectors are learning to love wall drawings as a new generation of artists embraces them

Walther Collection brings African photographers to New York

Project space will host three-year series of exhibitions starting in September

Private museums multiply among ARTnews top 200 collectors

Among who's who of leading collectors, many have established foundations

Manchester show is a taster of what’s to come at Hong Kong’s vast M+ museum

The selection of 80 works is a peek at the Swiss collector Uli Sigg’s comprehensive collection of contemporary Chinese art

Why private museums founders are coming under fire

Within shiny new Fondation Louis Vuitton, collectors are criticised over “narcissistic” vanity projects

From the archive | A shared pride: the Rothschilds yesterday, today and tomorrow

Jacob, Lord Rothschild, is one of the great benefactors of the English museum scene in both time and money

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Danh Vo to appeal court order to make ‘large and impressive’ new work for collector

Danish-Vietnamese artist says his “artistic integrity has been violated” by Rotterdam judge’s ruling in Bert Kreuk case

There is no single, global art market

New book explores some of the myths of the international trade

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