Collectors
Swiss collector show for Asia and Europe
Monique Burger plans to take her works on an Asia tour
After loans and offers of first refusal Portugal may lose billionaire's collection to Brazil
José Berardo doubts government will buy, and plans new art deco museum
Dealers look to LA future as blue-chip galleries move west
Galleries such as Gagosian and Matthew Marks see opportunities, despite small collector base
New Museum show of trustee's collection is an insult to scholarship and curators
Private-collector museums
Warhol’s famous athlete portraits stolen from collector Richard Weisman's home
A $1m reward is being offered
Vancouver collectors open private art museum
The inaugural exhibition at the Rennie Collection will showcase sculptor Mona Hatoum
Interview with collector François Pinault: “With art, emotion is vital, while in business it is generally considered suspect”
The billionaire collector granted us a rare audience at his new gallery in Venice
Collector interview: Budget collector Daniel Mason gives his Frieze tips
Among other advice, he suggests to buy what you like and that the affordable stuff is tucked round the back
The most important collectors you’ve never heard of: The Van Otterloos
Next year their collection of Dutch and Flemish 17th-century paintings goes on display for the first time in Europe and the US. The couple gave us their first ever interview
MoMA brings super-collector Dakis Joannou into the fold
Greek industrialist joins painting and sculpture committee
Ullens buys Tayou at Venice Biennale
The collectors add work by Pascale Marthine Tayou to their extensive collection
Disgraced Madoff investor’s Rothkos turn up in Moscow
J. Ezra Merkin offloads $310m collection
Leading collector plans contemporary art space in Mexico City
The museum will be drawn from the Jumex Foundation's 2,000 works
Art Basel 2009 dispels credit crunch blues with unprecedented surge in buying
No return to the boom, but is the worst really over so soon?
"A new kind of freedom in looking": Remembering the birth of Art Basel on its fortieth anniversary
Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades
Collector Richard Weisman calls off the hunt for stolen Warhols
Owner cancels reward for his missing set, citing problems with his insurer
Collector Richard Driehaus's private museum gets a classical makeover
Who said it was all about modernism?
Collector and Madoff associate Ezra Merkin finds himself in court
He is accused of defrauding his investors, which include charities
Chicago's industrialist benefactors built the city’s art collections—but can today’s patrons maintain them?
So far the next generation have yet to replicate their parents’ efforts on the same scale
Farjam Collection gallery opens at the Dubai International Financial Centre with Islamic art exhibition
Our first glimpse of plans for multiple museums laid out by the Iranian industrialist at Art Dubai '08
Farhad Farjam opens private museum in Dubai
The Iranian businessman has an extensive collection of Islamic and modern art
British collector Anita Zabludowicz reveals photo collection in New York
Zabludowicz is also planning a Las Vegas space
Francesca von Habsburg’s collection goes on long-term loan to Iceland
Decision made after rejection by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid
Lady Foster opens gallery and bookshop in Madrid
A former garage becomes an art space, as the Ivory Press publisher inaugurates building designed by her husband
Private collectors active at Arco but museums too quiet
We look at the talking points and early sales
Waxwork of collector will not be displayed in new Gilbert Galleries
Wax and wane: Gilbert dummy in V&A storage
US collectors are driving hard bargains in what has become a buyer’s market
In an economic downturn, collectors are calling the shots
Buyer of Warhol’s Green Car Crash revealed?
The large-scale “disaster painting” is the most expensive Andy Warhol ever to sell at auction