Collectors

Art Basel Miami Beach '07 fair report: Edition is strongest yet, despite financial turmoil

Most of the buyers were American private collectors and large-scale installation works were popular

Wall Street collector opens private gallery in Chelsea

Artist Chuck Close is curating the inaugural show this month

Lawsuitsarchive

Artist Bjarne Melgaard is suing his former backer

Sculptor says collector made too many editions

Booksarchive

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

New Museumarchive

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

Interviewarchive

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

Booksarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

Europe’s greatest museum buyer explains the strategy behind his acquisitions

The Prince of Liechtenstein explains 'Why I have become a great collector'

Auctionsarchive

Phillips de Pury plans seven-hour sale during Frieze week

The sales include the private collection of Marino Golinelli

Collectorsarchive

Max Mara founder’s art to go on show in posthumous exhibition

A former clothes factory in Italy will house 200 works

Hirst to fix another formaldehyde installation

All four versions of Mother and Child, Divided, returned to Hirst's studio for conservation

Collectorsarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

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

July 2007archive

Comment: the problem with a collector-driven market

There is a danger that money will trump knowledge, observed the New York dealer in 2007

Booksarchive

Books: James Brydges, munificent benefactor or bad-taste merchant?

A reappraisal of the life of the first Duke of Chandos, patron, collector and philanthropist

Collectorsarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

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

Collectorsarchive

Collector buying sight-unseen mistakes inches for feet and other art world gossip

Collector of Chinese contemporary gets more than he bargained for..

Collectorsarchive

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

Art fairsarchive

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