Collectors
Wall Street collector opens private gallery in Chelsea
Artist Chuck Close is curating the inaugural show this month
Artist Bjarne Melgaard is suing his former backer
Sculptor says collector made too many editions
Book review: The trade in architectural salvages
John Harris investigates the mainly US market for parts of European buildings
David Walsh reveals art for new private Tasmanian gallery
Walsh, described as “every casino owner’s nightmare”, owns around 1,300 antiquities and 300 contemporary works
Mexico’s two biggest collectors join forces to form new cultural compound in Mexico city
Eugenio Lopez Alonso’s Jumex Collection is to open a building near Carlos Slim Helú’s new Soumaya Museum
In search of purity out of Africa: Interview with collector Jean Pigozzi
“I feel that at the time of the Medici they had my kind of rapport with their artists”
Revealed: how a US collector gave Churchill a Monet the Tate wanted
Charing Cross Bridge of 1902 was gifted by a friend after he was ensured it would satisfy by Tate director John Rothenstein
Sotheby's James Stourton glazes over the more cut-throat tendencies of private collectors in new book
This account by the UK chairman of Sotheby’s is enthusiastic but superficial
In a new private museum in Kiev billionaire collector unveils Hirst, Koons and Gursky
The Pinchuk Art Center was opened 16 September 2006
Property mogul David Roberts building Camden gallery to house contemporary art collection
Scottish businessman to open public space
Careful arrangements are being made for scholars cataloguing cuneiform tablets at SOAS following dispute at UCL
Some of these tablets originate from Iraq
Steve Cohen, billionaire hedge fund manager, is lending works to US and UK museums
This change of stance has attracted controversy
Europe’s greatest museum buyer explains the strategy behind his acquisitions
The Prince of Liechtenstein explains 'Why I have become a great collector'
German collector buys Delvoye’s Art Basel truck for company headquarters
The largest piece ever made by the artist
Phillips de Pury plans seven-hour sale during Frieze week
The sales include the private collection of Marino Golinelli
Max Mara founder’s art to go on show in posthumous exhibition
A former clothes factory in Italy will house 200 works
Gallery accused of duping collector through operating a “Ponzi” scheme
Salander-O’Reilly denies all charges
Hirst to fix another formaldehyde installation
All four versions of Mother and Child, Divided, returned to Hirst's studio for conservation
France finally gets to see Pinault’s art in new exhibition
The owner of Christie's to show works from his personal collection for the first time
Collectors have turned a limestone cave in a Napa Valley hillyard into a unique private gallery space
The first curated cave installation is comprised of 19 works including pieces by Christopher Wool
V&A appoints medieval collector as chair
Paul Ruddock accepted the position after Sir John Tusa changed his mind
Comment: the problem with a collector-driven market
There is a danger that money will trump knowledge, observed the New York dealer in 2007
Books: James Brydges, munificent benefactor or bad-taste merchant?
A reappraisal of the life of the first Duke of Chandos, patron, collector and philanthropist
Best of British for Texas as private collectors put their art on display
Kenny Goss and George Michael set to open a gallery in Dallas
Nazi bunker transformed as private collectors put their art on display
German advertising guru to show over 500 works from his private collection on a rotating basis
Collector buying sight-unseen mistakes inches for feet and other art world gossip
Collector of Chinese contemporary gets more than he bargained for..
Anita Zabludowicz reinvents North London chapel as experimental gallery
The inaugural exhibition will feature a portion of her own collection, as well as a contribution from New York's Rina Banerjee
European collectors dominate, Americans in short supply at Art Basel
Strong buying at this year’s fair, but good works are getting harder to find
Incantation bowls returned to collector after being subject of a recent independent inquiry
The objects have been on loan to UCL since 1995
Elton John granted permission to build gallery at his Windsor home
Curator explains they are in desperate need of additional space