Collectors
Trends in collecting: Are domestic collectors ready to take on the world?
While the Russians are branching out, Indian collectors don't stray far from home
Francesca von Habsburg plans for new art centre called into question
Banking sector collapse blamed
Lichtenstein's is the greatest royal collection after Britain’s—and is still growing
Prince Hans-Adam II may be spending more than any other in the world
Carlos Slim Helu is world’s richest man
The Mexican billionaire is also a significant art collector
Wallace curator gets more than he bargained for, a tribute to “Avalanche” magazine and Jagger as a fairy queen
The Wallace collection will show the bronze secrets of a leather-clad collector
Versailles exhibitions spark controversy: Perrotin answers the critics
Three of Emmanuel Perrotin's artists host shows at the iconic French palace
Directors say OK to collectors’ shows
In response to The New Museum's current exhibition
'The Gonzaga Tapestries: from Mantegna to Raphael and Giulio Romano' goes on show in Mantua
The surviving tapestries come together at the Museo Civico Palazzo del Tè from 14 March - 27 June
Obituary and tributes: Ernst Beyeler
Art world remembers a great art dealer, collector and museum founder
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