Patronage
Russian empress Catherine the Great and her women artists: a complex tale of gender, art and patronage
Engaging, accessible and beautifully illustrated book provides a welcome and stimulating contribution to scholarship on 18th-century art
With royal approval: UK's arts organisation chiefs on how they have benefitted from the Queen’s patronage
Support from the Queen has been crucial to the functioning of a number of Britain's arts institutions
Delfina Entrecanales, arts patron who founded the Delfina Foundation, has died, aged 94
A uniquely generous supporter of the arts who had been likened to a contemporary Medici, Entrecanales gave hundreds of artists the time and space to create but never demanded works in return
Tate receives US boost as major patrons donate Salle, Steinbach, and Martin
American patrons have recently been very generous to the gallery, with both their art and their funds
Chicago's industrialist benefactors built the city’s art collections—but can today’s patrons maintain them?
So far the next generation have yet to replicate their parents’ efforts on the same scale
Restoring Charles I's queen to her rightful place as a major collector and patron of the arts
Henrietta Maria: patron, collector and propagandist
Artist Bjarne Melgaard is suing his former backer
Sculptor says collector made too many editions
Books: James Brydges, munificent benefactor or bad-taste merchant?
A reappraisal of the life of the first Duke of Chandos, patron, collector and philanthropist
Dealers double as patrons: Design Miami/Basel 2007
The dealer-artist relationship becomes more prominent as galleries strive for individuality, while Jean Prouvé's dominance is undeniable
Tate woos US patrons with cocktails at 10 Downing Street
Guggenheim director says US institutions cannot compete with such incentives
C.I. Kim to open New York gallery, following spaces in Beijing and South Korea
The Korean collector is being compared to Charles Saatchi
Breaking down the maths of museum earnings: An ominous assessment of exhibition profits
There is a basic problem in suggesting that earned income can keep a museum afloat
Heinz’s $4 million gift to the Warhol Museum
The gift increases the museum’s endowment to $7.1 million
Raphael, Cellini and a Renaissance banker: The patronage of Bindo Altoviti at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Tracing the patron, rather than the artist
Contemporary art worth $5 million donated to MoMA
The gift was made by New York millionairess Elaine Dannheisser, who says her collection contains “a lot of tough art”
How Saddam Hussein's ideology was enshrined in his art commissions
New book "The Monument" explains why greater attention to the Iraqi director’s iconography might have illuminated Western politicians as to his ambitions