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How a fake Van Gogh Encouraged Barbra Streisand To Buy The Real Thing; Star's autobiography reveals her admiration for a “self-portrait” owned by a Hollywood producer; "This was the first time I realised that some people could actually buy a great painting and have it in their home. That was amazing to me.”


Inside a Family-Friendly, Art-Filled Manhattan Home; Yana Peel, the global head of arts and culture at Chanel, wanted something urban, sexy, arty, and design focused


Sisters Roselyn and Alexandra Mathews Shed Light on Their Family’s Illustrious Art Collection; Prominent Texan family provides state-of-the-art lighting to top art institutions around the world, and has built an enviable collection to boot


Panic at The House Museum! Can Today’s Tame Tastes Satisfy The Public’s Appetite For Historical Homes?


Book Painting: There might be a Secret Painting Hiding in that Old Book of Yours


Fore-edge Paintings, The Hidden Artworks Painted at the Edges of Books


Art acquired by the late ‘Ghostbusters’ director Ivan Reitman could fetch more than $60m at Christie’s New York; Collection is led by Pablo Picasso’s 'Femme endormie' (1934) which the auction house estimates will sell for between $25m and $35m


Philanthropist Pete Scantland Goes Running With Artists and Dreams of Camping Out at the Met; Billboard baron has cultivated a vast treasure trove of contemporary art, including works by Derek Fordjour, Jenna Gribbon, and Tau Lewis

Collector Oleg Guerrand-Hermès Explains How He Discovered the ‘Vulgar Side’ of the Art World; French collector Oleg Guerrand-Hermès reveals his six-step process for discovering his favorite new pieces and artists


Vincent Price’s Least Famous Role: Art Curator for Sears; Master of Menace who starred in ‘House of Wax’ and ‘Edward Scissorhands’ was also a trained art historian and art collector


The Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art


Entrepreneur Charles Jin on How He Built a World-Class Photography Collection; His considerable collection ranges from 20th-century masters to contemporary stars


Collecting Is In the Blood for Gallerist Paul Henkel, an Art Historian Who Hails From a Family of Connoisseurs


Busy Bay Area Fixtures Pamela and David Hornik on Supporting Contemporary Art, With the Help of Their Dogs


For Tennis Star Reilly Opelka, Art Collecting Is a Sport; The Guston-collecting, Margiela-wearing, McEnroe-dialing 26-year-old explains why he shuns art advisors (“I don't respect the profession”) and shows no emotion during studio visits. “I love any opportunity to go against the grain,” he tells GQ columnist Chris Black


Oligarch Files Study reveals $963m Art Collection of Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova; Mondrian, Magritte and Freud are among the masterpieces acquired by the sanctioned Russian billionaire, according to a report by The Guardian


Taos Gallerist Ari Myers Fosters Emerging Talents, Values Her Taurean Stubborn Streak, and Adores Her Horse Named Cowboy; We asked the founder of The Valley about the things she values most—in art and in life


New Yorker Documentary: Margie Soudek, a Grandma’s Quirky Collection of Salt and Pepper Shakers


Gallerist Josh Lilley on Collecting Playful Works But Keeping Them Out of Reach of Little Hands; He's built a distinctive (and childproof) personal collection in his London home


Billionaire Founders of China’s Long Museum Plan to Sell Off an Estimated $150 Million Worth of Art at Sotheby’s This Fall; Chinese taxi driver-turned-billionaire, began turning heads in the art market by paying tens of millions of dollars for Chinese art with his credit card

How Has the Art World Changed Since 1983? On the 40th Anniversary of His Gallery, Thaddaeus Ropac Has Some Ideas; Stalwart gallerist on shifting art-world centers, tastes, and the enduring vision for his gallery

New Yorker Profile: How Kingpin Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World; Dealer has been so successful selling art to masters of the universe that he has become one of them


‘I Wanted to Be a Treasure Hunter’: Dealer Bernie Chase Tells All to Kenny Schachter About a Career Selling Cars, Jewelry, Art, and... Other Substances; Chase Contemporary dealer also opens up about rubbing shoulders with Brunei princes, the Queen, and a Rolling Stone


Five Collectors on the Artwork That Shaped Their Collection; Michael Sherman, Anne Huntington Sharma, Mark Hilbert, Queenie Rosita Law and India Rose James

Billionaire Art Collector Joe Lewis Indicted in New York for Insider Trading and Financial Fraud; Authorities accuse Lewis of orchestrating a 'brazen' scheme where he provided inside information to friends and associates on multiple occasions


PR Entrepreneur Hannah Gottlieb-Graham Is All for Team Spirit, Celebrating Emerging Artists, and Getting In Her Morning Workout; We asked the founder and director of ALMA Communications about the things she values most—in art and in life


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The 15 Biggest Art Collectors in the World Right Now


Nita Ambani on Her Spectacular New Arts Institution in Mumbai

Modern Patrons: Gina Mamidaki; How the hotelier built a Cretan retreat for artists from Anish Kapoor to Lynda Benglis


Fintech Entrepreneur Shane Akeroyd on Being Moved by Moving Images and Playing Street Hockey With Peter Doig; Collector and philanthropist has launched a platform to showcase his collection of moving-image works


Five Collectors on Their Highlights and Purchases from Art Basel 2023


Tina Knowles Lawson, Komal Shah, and Other Top Collectors Reveal the First Artwork They Ever Bought; Here are the purchases that infected seven top collectors with the art-buying bug

‘If It Doesn’t Have Psyche, It Can’t Be Art’: Mega-Collector Dakis Joannou Docks His Famous Yacht to Talk About Collecting in a Chaotic Art World; We caught up with Joannou aboard his Jeff Koons-painted superyacht in Hydra


What I Buy and Why: Miwa Taguchi on Evolving Her Father’s Art Collection and Getting in Early on Yoshitomo Nara; We caught up with the Japanese collector ahead of the debut of Tokyo Gendai


Top Art Advisor Wendy Goldsmith Touts Experience as Her Greatest Asset, Thinks Verbiage Is Overrated, and Is Here for ‘Any Animal Rescue’; We spoke to the founder of Goldsmith Art Advisory about what she values in art and life


French Entrepreneur Garance Primat Dots the Grounds of Her Family’s Chateau With Works in Dialogue With the Elements; She just launched her summer exhibition on the estate, featuring works by Olafur Eliasson and Sissel Tolaas

A Collector Clinched a Rare 17th-Century Terracotta Model Sculpture for a Record $2.85 Million at a French Auction. Now, the Louvre Is Snatching It; The Paris museum already has the final marble version of the work in its collection


30 Years of Collecting at Weisman Malibu — In Pictures!


Interview: ‘If artificial intelligence creates better art, what’s wrong with that?’ Top Norwegian investor and art collector Nicolai Tangen; Head investor of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund worries more about AI affecting the country’s portfolio than his own collection of paintings


7 Questions for Entrepreneur Bryan Verona on His Mission to Get Art Out of Storage and Onto Walls; Up My Art is a first of its kind platform dedicated to facilitating peer-to-peer fine art lending—tapping a new value potential in fine art


Spielberg Gifts Animation Collection to Academy


Yasmin Kazeminy Has Collecting in Her Blood. She’s Using Her Privilege to Uplift Emerging Artists


Fashion Entrepreneur Zina Khair on Three Decades of Collecting Syrian Art


Art and Design Go Hand in Hand for George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, Who Once Convinced Yayoi Kusama to Make Them a Pumpkin


Maria Sukkar Collects Women Artists—Yayoi Kusama, Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin—With Identity as Their Focus; She's given her collection a name‚ the ISelf collection, which has been shown at Whitechapel Gallery in London


Art Advisor Maria Vogel Hosts Art-Inspired Dinner Parties, Cherishes Handwritten Notes, and Keeps an Eye Out for Overlooked Women Artists; We asked the founder of Rococo art advisory about the things she values most—in art and in life


Meet Frédéric Jousset, the Thrill-Seeking French Millionaire Funding Outlandish Ideas to Make People Fall in Love With Art; Jousset's ideas included building a museum on a boat because "boats fascinate people."


The House That ‘Rolling Stone’ Built: ‘Rolling Stone’ co-founder Jann Wenner has forgone his maximalist past, building a casually minimalist family retreat in Montauk, New York

Home Is Where the Art Is: Collector couple, Barbara and Daniel Newman


Artists from My Generation Develop As My Eye Develops: Collector Jack Siebert


Collector Lisa Fayne Cohen on Acquiring Her Cecily Brown and the Joan Mitchell That Got Away; Began her collection with a Fernand Léger in 2009 and hasn't looked back since

‘We’re Not All Ikea-Loving Minimalists’: Historian and Author Michael Diaz-Griffith on the Resurgence of Young Antique Collectors


What Did French Actor Alain Delon Collect? French actor Delon’s art collection heads to auction


Swiss Collector Suzanne Syz Houses Her Artworks in an Actual Bank in Geneva and Once Returned a Warhol; Former jewelry designer has attended Art Basel for over 35 years—and will again this year


An Art Patron’s Mission to Share Her Collection With the World; Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s formula for acquiring, funding and showing work has made her a key player in the art world and a benevolent favorite among artists.


Creative Director Dennis Freedman on His Never-Ending Quest for Avant-Garde Italian Design; Exhibition highlighting more than 50 pieces from his collection opened April 20 in New York City


Danish Dealer-to-Curator Jens Faurschou on the Most Impractical Artwork He Owns; Involves Traditional Japanese Morning Exercises

Engineer Howard Tam on the Painting That Turned Him Into a Collector, and What He’s Looking for Next



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