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

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

Former mutual-fund manager pits his taste against the market

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed

Baroque paintings given to National Gallery of Ireland instead

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

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

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

Eugene Victor Thaw on the transformation of tribal art

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

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.

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

David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts

Veteran collector and lobbyist for the arts opposes introduction of entrance fees

His motivations to sell remain unclear

Clarence House is full of treasures

Collectors fear changes to export regulations after British departure

But £60 can still buy you quality

Christie’s succeeds with the sale of goods recently in the trade and much restored

Bought since the 80s, the eight Dutch and Flemish paintings include Rembrandt and Sweerts