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Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'

Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California

The Potsdamer Platz is reborn this month as Daimler-Benz turn property developers and collectors

Will public art by Koons, Rauschenberg, Tinguely and Haring humanise this vast complex by Renzo Piano?

Booksarchive

Timothy Mowl's William Beckford biography casts the famed collector as "a sexual and architectural Lucifer"

The story of the Regency dilettante, eccentric and collector is told in all its scandalous detail

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Collector profile: Sir Paul Getty's two weaknesses, books and cricket

Over twenty-five years this Anglo-American has built up a great library of early books, manuscripts and incunabula

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Collectors’ profile: “America’s model millionaires”

Computer-glitch software, Norton Utilities, has made the fortunes of Peter and Eileen Norton

Collector Paula Cussi funds Tate Freud exhibition despite export altercation

“Lucian Freud: Some New Paintings” is on show until 26 July

Provenancearchive

Probing provenance: The importance of due diligence and insurance for defective title

The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing museums and private collectors who may find themselves having to prove good title to their possessions

Lawsuitsarchive

Top collector Werner Bokelberg suing for over $1.7 million-worth of “vintage” Man Ray prints

Magnificent Man Rays turn out to be too good to be true, throwing doubt over other collections of his work

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A survey of Ten Latin American collectors

Unsurprisingly, most of these collections strongly represent the art of their own country

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A famous collector sells up: punitive Spanish export laws induce me to sell, says Jaime Ortiz-Patiño

Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989

Lawarchive

"Publication right" introduced into UK law

Museums and collectors should hasten to protect their rights in this field

Janet de Botton gives Tate free reign with her collection

Inspired by the Tate’s plans for Bankside, she gave the museum one third of her massive collection of modern art

Museumsarchive

Major gift of American art and cash to San Francisco MOMA

The donation will strengthen the museum’s holdings with major paintings by Americans such as Philip Guston, Leon Golub, Richard Diebenkorn and Willem de Kooning

Auctionsarchive

Sotheby's Old Master sale of '98 one for the books, trouncing Christie's with £30.9 million in proceeds

The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals

Booksarchive

Ceramics: Blue and white, all right!

A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware

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Collector interview: Yonfan offers a tribute to the Princess of Wales from Hong Kong to Paris

Photographer and film director Yonfan has given eight Chinese paintings to the Musée Guimet in Paris

Auctionsarchive

The Charles E. Lees collection of 100 portrait miniatures is being sold at Bonhams

100 to be sold, including Thomas Cromwell from the studio of Hans Holbein

Collection withdrawn from Swiss museums in protest against Unidroit

Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth gets twenty-six works from the blue-chip Staechelin collection on a three-year loan

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Sir Denis Mahon retracts his gift to the Walker in protest against entry charges

Baroque paintings given to National Gallery of Ireland instead

Booksarchive

Speaking prose all their lives: The relationship between art Victorian social mores explored

A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors

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A late, great collector and the new museum of his collection: The legacy of the ever elusive John Hunt

One of Europe’s greatest private collections of medieval material and works of art from antiquity to the twentieth century is now on view in Ireland

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Deep in the art of Texas: focus on Dallas as a flourishing community of dealers and collectors

Talley Dunn of Gerald Peters Gallery states with pride that “The art community as a whole is growing”

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Major Hong Kong collector, T.T. Tsui in arms for Iran link

The multi-millionnaire has family connections with a Chinese, State-run armaments company

Chicago galleries co-operate to keep collectors local

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

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Collector profile: Raymond Nasher, the world’s biggest private collector of modern sculpture

The shopping-mall millionare has been wooed by museums all over the world, but Dallas looks set to benefit from generosity in the great American tradition