Collectors
Can you build a national collection without actually buying any art? The Dubai Collection says you can
The state-backed online "museum" plans a physical exhibition later this year at the Ethihad Museum
Portuguese collector Joe Berardo—detained for tax fraud—also investigated for other crimes
Businessman behind the Museu Coleção Berardo in Lisbon, one of Portugal's most visited museums, allegedly owes nearly €1bn
Come for the art, stay for the night at collector's south of France foundation
Provençal offshoot of Hubert Bonnet’s Brussels art space doubles as a five-room guest house
From sneakers to Pokémon cards: here are five of the hottest collectibles
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
Catherine de Medici portrait returns to Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill after almost 200 years
Painting is the only surviving contemporary image of the monarch
Eli Broad, an unexpected—and often unreasonable—arts patron
The self-made billionaire helped shape the Los Angeles art scene, while clashing with most of its prominent museum leaders
Korean museums to receive 23,000 works from Samsung estate in $11bn tax settlement
Lee Kun-hee, the Samsung Electronics chairman who died in October, leaves collection worth $2.2bn, including works by Monet, Dali and Chagall
Poacher turned gamekeeper? Stefan Simchowitz opens Los Angeles gallery
“I support so many artists and I’d like to provide exhibition opportunities for them,” says the controversial dealer and art advisor
National Gallery in London and Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin reach 'collegiate' agreement over disputed art collection
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
Cate Blanchett is building her own art gallery at her English country home
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
Moderna vaccine billionaire Timothy Springer explains his love for Chinese scholar rocks
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
Blue-chip artists move over, here come the red chips
Art as a blue-chip investment has had its day, as buyers chase the latest "red-chip" names
As a Brexit deal is agreed, confused and resigned UK art world ponders life after leaving the European Union
Art dealers, shippers and auctioneers are unsure about how leaving the single market will impact their business—but there is a silver lining
This Hans Memling painting failed to sell at Christie's—now its owner has given it back to Bruges where it was painted over 500 years ago
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
All ears: why collectors can’t get enough of industry hype right now
In an increasingly asset-driven art trade, collecting by listening to the buzz is fast becoming the norm
Billionaire art collector Sheldon Solow's tax-exempt art foundation was infamously inaccessible—now his widow says she will open it to the public
The real estate developer died on Tuesday aged 92. His collection in New York has been parodied for being almost impossible to visit despite receiving tax breaks
Actor Samuel L. Jackson and footballer Samuel Eto’o pay tribute to art collector Sindika Dokolo during six-hour televised memorial
Dokolo was buried at Brompton Cemetery in West London yesterday following his funeral at Westminster Cathedral
Congolese collector Sindika Dokolo reportedly dies in Dubai diving accident
Tributes pour in for “defender of African art”—who was also being investigated by Angolan authorities
Scottish museum joins Tate in cutting ties with dealer Anthony d’Offay
Hundreds of works will be returned following harassment allegations dating back to 1997
Erich Marx, Berlin collector and patron, dies age 99
His collection of works by Warhol, Twombly, Beuys and Kiefer is on long-term loan to the Berlin museums
What sort of art will we want after the pandemic ends?
Performance out, domestically-sized painting in
X-appeal: millennial collectors open private museum in Beijing
Founded by Michael Xufu Huang and Theresa Tse, the X Museum opens in the Chinese capital this weekend after Covid-19 delay
Portuguese judge orders seizure of all assets owned by African art collector Isabel dos Santos in the country
Move is intended to stall the sales of stakes in multi-million-Euro companies based in Portugal
Collector Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza invests in Madrid after leaving Vienna
Austrian patron donates work to Reina Sofia and commissions new piece by Ragnar Kjartansson to be shown at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Collector Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo drops plans for new Madrid space in former slaughterhouse
Italian patron is looking for an alternative site in the Spanish capital after encountering "structural problems" with Matadero's Nave 9 building
'Universally admired' arts patron Agnes Gund stars in new documentary at MoMA
The film, directed by her daughter Catherine, shows the roots of the collector's social activism
Championing African American abstraction: inside the collection of Pamela Joyner
The San Francisco-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why
The Japanese collector who bought Basquiat’s $110m painting will fly artists—and a new partner—to the moon
René Magritte: a buyer's guide
The artist’s trademark motifs make his work easily recognisable and desirable—but there is more to this Surrealist than apples and bowler hats
Millennials—monsters, or saviours of the art market?
What do young collectors want, what do they buy, and, as they become richer, will they add rocket fuel to the art market—or blow it up entirely?