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Art Collectors

Trends, insights and news about collecting art. Interviews with collectors and advisors. Read more about Arts.

Older man in a dark suit and red tie seated before a large, colorful abstract painting.

Collector Dick Hedreen Has Sold Artworks Before, But This Time the Proceeds Will Build a Museum

Proceeds from upcoming auctions at Sotheby's, expected to exceed $90 million, will fund a new museum at Seattle University to house his major 350-work gift.
By Elisa Carollo
A crowded aisle at Frieze New York, with visitors moving among gallery booths displaying contemporary artworks.

Art Fairs Are Built for a Market That No Longer Exists

The world has changed dramatically, but fair infrastructure hasn't evolved to meet the demands of 21st-century collectors.
By Paco Barragán
A woman stands between two white sofas in an art-filled room with vaulted brick ceilings, a fireplace and a large figurative painting.

Collector Emma Menell Is Rethinking How African Artists Are Supported Abroad

Her foundation's approach is a direct response to what she saw and learned while running a commercial gallery.
By Gameli Hamelo
A dark blue gallery installation features multiple video screens and colorful “The Korean Wave” signage, with a life-size figure of a performer posed inside an illuminated display case.

The Chaebol Fortunes That Built South Korea’s Art World

By Elisa Carollo
Image of a yellow pumpink sculpture with black dots.

Seoul’s Paradise City Is an Unexpected Art Destination

By Elisa Carollo
BRITAIN-ENT-ART-MCENROE

When Tennis’s Greatest Champions Turn a Competitive Eye Toward Art

By Dian Parker
A woman and an older man sit across from each other at a wooden table in a lodge-like room with mountain views through large windows.

How Collectors Bob and Jane Clark Turned Collecting into an Exercise in Community Building

By Elisa Carollo
A man in a blue blazer speaking into a microphone in front of hanging artworks and banners bearing artists’ names.

Reid Walker On the Infrastructure Gap Holding Back Native American Art

By Elisa Carollo
A long, dark metal reclining figure sculpture stretches across a grassy hillside with mountain peaks and scattered clouds in the distance.

Tiny But Mighty, Aspen Has Become the Art World’s Most Exclusive Summer Retreat

By Elisa Carollo
A woman with long blond hair sits in a green chair wearing a black sequined top and black pants against a dark patterned wall and modern fireplace.

Collector Amanda Precourt Skipped the Vanity Museum to Give Denver a Community Art Space

By Elisa Carollo
A dim gallery installation washed in purple light features neon figures on the walls, small café tables and chairs and a microphone on a circular stage framed by dark curtains.

FEMSA Has Spent 50 Years Building a More Complete Record of Latin American Art

By Elisa Carollo
Two men pose in a book-lined room beside a white fireplace, beneath a large monochrome artwork depicting a tropical conservatory and fountain.

The Icy Gays Built a Collection By Cultivating Relationships—and Ignoring Market Hype

By Elisa Carollo
Princeton graduate and undergraduate students view Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge” at the Princeton University Art Museum during a student preview.

The Biggest Gifts to University Art Museums in 2026

By Elisa Carollo
An exhibition wall displays a grid of patterned textile squares, each centered with a human skull, beneath exposed wooden ceiling beams and linear lights.

Grażyna Kulczyk Has Spent 50 Years Collecting Artists Who Were Difficult to Place

By Sarah Moroz
Four artworks of varying sizes and styles hang across a white museum wall between architectural columns under focused gallery lighting.

Anne and Arthur Goldstein Reflect On the Responsibility of the Collector

By Elisa Carollo
San Francisco philanthropist and art collector Pamela Joyner shows her art at home on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. At left is a sculpture from Kevin Beasley (b.1985) called Aurora, 2018, house dresses, kaftans, t-shirts, du-rags, ri

Why Collectors Gift Significant Artworks to University Art Museums

By Daniel Grant
FRANCE-ART-PAINTING-AUCTION

Safeguarding Cultural Heritage Through the Largest Art and Collectibles Transfer in History

By Maeve Zimmerman
Two art handlers carefully adjust a large abstract painting by Joan Mitchell on the wall, with the reflection of the artwork visible on the polished floor.

Art, Death and Taxes: What Collectors Need to Know About Creating a Legacy That Lasts

By Megan Fox Kelly
A pastel illustration of museum workers stretching a protective sheet over an artwork between two framed historical paintings.

Fine Art Insurance Is Often Worth More for What It Prevents Than What It Pays Out

By Elisa Carollo

Joshua Foulquier Built a Restaurant Around the Art His Mother Loved

By Christa Terry

Judy Glickman Lauder’s Vast Trove of Photography Is a Portrait of Its Collector

By Sarah Moroz
A high-ceilinged Milan living room combines ornate historic architecture and a panoramic landscape mural with contemporary artworks, rounded white sofas, colorful tables and a smiling flower cushion.

In the Midst of the Great Wealth Transfer, a New Generation Is Redefining the Art of Collecting

By Elisa Carollo
A smiling Kate Lee and Clovis Lima Jr. sit together on a gray sofa in their art-filled apartment, with a colorful landscape painting, record player and packed bookshelf behind them.

How Kate Lee and Clovis Lima Jr. Are Connecting the Creative Cultures of Asia and Latin America

By Elisa Carollo
A hallway in an art museum with paintings hanging on the walls

Behind Every Museum Gift Is a Negotiation Both Sides Are Trying to Win

By Daniel Grant
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