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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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Elton John granted permission to build gallery at his Windsor home

Curator explains they are in desperate need of additional space

Anish Kapoor mirror sells at Art Basel

Kapoor speaks of his fascination with reflective surfaces and how they interact with their environment

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How much is David Khalili’s Islamic art worth?

The Sunday Times values it at $9 billion, but several dealers disagree

Australian collectors build their own museums

New museums in Sydney and Tasmania are in the works

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Seven of the most prolific Indian art collectors

Four based in India, one New York Indian, one US couple and one Japanese buyer

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Hartmut Rausch's collection to go on show at the Portikus Centre for Contemporary Art

The caretaker of the Städelschule shares his own collection with the public

Art fairsarchive

Asia Week, New York: Dealers and auction houses report strong sales

There were new buyers and more collectors from India and China, but the art fairs were quieter events

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1.3 billion Chinese people, but still not many substantial collectors of Chinese contemporary art

Here are the best known: one Swiss, one Chinese, one Belgian, three American and one British

May 2007archive

Seattle Art Museum gets $1bn worth of art from 'incredibly devoted group of collectors'

The gift from 53 local patrons is one of the largest in the history of institutional donations

Lawsuitsarchive

Norwegian collector to sue British university for return of his antiquities

But scholars say they are likely to have been looted from Iraq

Collectorsarchive

World’s biggest art collector is buying again

Sheikh Saud Al-Thani of Qatar has now been pardoned