Philanthropy
Valeria Napoleone's all-female art collection hits the road
The London-based philanthropist partners with Museums Sheffield to show works by women artists
Homegrown philanthropy fuels the new Speed Art Museum
Decade of renovation ends with marathon opening for expanded gallery
New programme aims to train future leaders of artist foundations
Seminar to be held in New York at the offices of influential philanthropic groups, including the Roy Lichtenstein and Joan Mitchell foundations
Taxing times: private museums under scrutiny by US government
Who benefits most from tax breaks on private art museums: patrons or the public?
Olafur Eliasson launches successful appeal to kickstart Little Sun's next big project
Solar-powered mobile phone charger is designed to fill gap in African market
Ford Foundation joins global fight against inequality
Grants of $500m will focus on fairness, president says
Artists do their bit to help US museums’ bottom line
Los Angeles institution gained $22.5m last month as endowments grow thanks to sale of artists’ gifts
Leonard Lauder: The man who put Cubism in the Met
The billionaire philanthropist reveals how he amassed a collection of works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger with a museum in mind
‘Patience is not one of my virtues’: Eli Broad on his new museum's delayed opening
While construction continues, Broad has been busy buying art
LA Mayor spares the city’s cultural department despite financial pressure
The philanthropist Eli Broad will help the organisation focus on attracting tourists
The billionaire Eli Broad’s collection of post-war art goes on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Is this where it will come finally to rest?
Thinking Broadly at LACMA
Eli Broad leads subway route campaign in Los Angeles
Philanthropist joins group petitioning to expand LA Metro
Interview with Hilary Weston: Grimm in Florida
The importance of meditation, mirages and tuning out.
UK Treasury rules to stop museums spending donors' cash
National institutions reluctantly set up trusts to gain access to their own reserves
US art sponsorship suffering after economic crisis, survey shows
Corporate giving down 14% over three years according to Business Committee for the Arts
Carlos Slim Helu is world’s richest man
The Mexican billionaire is also a significant art collector
French institutions have lost their integrity by relying on private sponsors, leading fundraiser says
Longtime arts and heritage patron Olivier de Rohan denounces the increasing influence of external bodies on museums' creative decisions
Collector Richard Driehaus's private museum gets a classical makeover
Who said it was all about modernism?
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
Norwegian dealer's estate to benefit charity
Médecins Sans Frontières will get millions from the sale
Anthony d’Offay deal with Tate and Scotland sets tax precedent for UK philanthropy
For his partial donation of £125m worth of art, the dealer received £26.5m—the price he originally paid for the collection—tax free
Warhol Foundation report looks back on 20 years of philanthropy
The New York organisation has disbursed more than $200m in cash grants and art donations since the artist's death in 1987
Seattle Art Museum gets $1bn worth of art from 'incredibly devoted group of collectors'
The gift from 53 local patrons is one of the largest in the history of institutional donations
Museums in the US and UK pay tribute to Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor, in the centenary of his birth
Celebrating the greatest Anglophile of them all
New legislation could lead to the end of partial gifts to museums
Changes to US tax law could discourage collectors from giving
As US museums face mounting legal issues, an annual conference explores what to do with whistleblowers and dodgy donors
Recent corporate scandals have raised concerns that American charities should be examining their ethics policies