A new code aims to introduce more transparency to the business of buying

Individuals and companies have been targeted by the UK, US and EU over the invasion of Ukraine

The middle market, traditionally the art world’s unloved child, offers treats galore

The "professional Yorkshireman" had more than 3,600 pieces including the likes of Lucie Rie and Bernard Leach

Collector Danny First is extending his homegrown programme beyond the walls of a replica of the Unabomber's nerve centre

Benefactors of his gifts include London's National Gallery, Tate Britain, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Royal Opera House

Chinese collector Michael Xufu Huang was covertly buying works on behalf of the Monaco-based Federico Castro Debernardi for a 10% commission. But then he got stung

The Smithsonian commissioned the composer to create a performance responding to an exhibition of objects from the illustrious Tibetan Buddhist art collection of Alice Kandell

Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London

The Oracle Corporation co-founder owns the painting that hung above J.F. Kennedy’s hotel bed on the morning of his assassination—and the president’s final telephone call was about Van Gogh

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

Buying a work and donating another to a museum sounds like a win-win—but who really benefits?

The London-based collector tells us what she has bought and why

The Norwegian collector tells us what he has bought and why

In this adapted excerpt from her new book, The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum, Georgina Adam examines the motivations of collectors who founded their own art spaces

The Basel-based collector tells us what he's bought and why

The state-backed online "museum" plans a physical exhibition later this year at the Ethihad Museum

Businessman behind the Museu Coleção Berardo in Lisbon, one of Portugal's most visited museums, allegedly owes nearly €1bn

Provençal offshoot of Hubert Bonnet’s Brussels art space doubles as a five-room guest house

With baseball cards selling for $5.2m each and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet making $2.9m, people will collect anything if its rare and makes them nostalgic

Painting is the only surviving contemporary image of the monarch

The self-made billionaire helped shape the Los Angeles art scene, while clashing with most of its prominent museum leaders

Lee Kun-hee, the Samsung Electronics chairman who died in October, leaves collection worth $2.2bn, including works by Monet, Dali and Chagall

“I support so many artists and I’d like to provide exhibition opportunities for them,” says the controversial dealer and art advisor

After long-running row over the bequest of 19th-century collector Hugh Lane, new deal adds two paintings to rotating loan and greater collaboration between the two museums

Old outbuildings on the actor's estate will be knocked down to make way for the studio—and provisions will be made for the protected bats that live there

Gongshi—whose unusual forms are created by years of river erosion—have long been highly prized in Asia. Now they are garnering admirers in the West

Art as a blue-chip investment has had its day, as buyers chase the latest "red-chip" names

Art dealers, shippers and auctioneers are unsure about how leaving the single market will impact their business—but there is a silver lining

The work was offered for sale at £1.5m to £2.5m in 2019 but US collector Bill Middendorf has decided to give it to the Belgian city