Collectors
Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'
Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California
"Renaissance women patrons, wives and widows in Italy, c. 1300-1550"
Catherine E. King's book reviewed
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?
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
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
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
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The recent, widely publicised dispute over the provenance of two paintings by Egon Schiele, withdrawn last year from a loan exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on the grounds of contested ownership, offered a vivid illustration of the problems facing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
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
A survey of Ten Latin American collectors
Unsurprisingly, most of these collections strongly represent the art of their own country
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
Collector profile: William Berger. The instant, $20 million, English art collection
Former mutual-fund manager pits his taste against the market
"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
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
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
Ceramics: Blue and white, all right!
A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware
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
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
New book demystifies nineteenth-century Pittsburgh collectors and how they rose out of the US's industrial centre
The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed
Sir Denis Mahon retracts his gift to the Walker in protest against entry charges
Baroque paintings given to National Gallery of Ireland instead
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
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
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”
From primitive to art back to ethnology: too much zeal, says leading collector
Eugene Victor Thaw on the transformation of tribal art
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
Cutting-edge art forced onto the block to repay foundation as owner, Nadal-Ginard, languishes in jail
The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.
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