Collectors
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
Collector Stella Kesaeva’s plans for a new gallery in her garage
The Moscow-based collector has amassed a hoard of Russian contemporary art
Industrialist and collector opens his 14th gallery
Reinhold Würth has converted a church for old masters
Saatchi purchase makes collector Howard Faber think again
$6m from sale of Chinese paintings, including a Zeng Fanzhi, encourages him to review his remaining collection
Denver Art Museum art-share deal under investigation for breaching deaccessioning guidelines
Billionaire collector was given a half share in a Charles Deas painting in exchange for funding a Thomas Eakins acquisition
US collector returns artefacts to Greece
Shelby White returns two two fourth century BC objects
No expense spared for Gagosian’s second Moscow venture
70 works to be installed in riverside factory
Francis Bacon claims his place at the top of the market
As Tate Britain opens a major travelling retrospective, we examine the factors underpinning the meteoric rise in prices for the artist’s work and reveal the identity of his biggest collectors
Paris dealers take on Manhattan as galleries migrate across the pond
“We meet a broader range of collectors here”
Meet China’s top collector of contemporary art
Guan Yi tells us about his plans to open a museum and sculpture park on a 16.5-acre plot of land in Beijing
Another private collector opens his own gallery
A new contemporary art gallery for Barcelona