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Art Collectors

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

Luigi Bonotto plays a white chess set with Yoko Ono, who wears a red hat, as photographers gather around them in a crowded room.

A Tribute to Luigi Bonotto, the Visionary Fluxus Patron Who Merged Art, Life and Industry

Bonotto believed strongly that “technique is essential, but technique without culture is empty.”
By Elisa Carollo
A cartoonish semi-cubist image of a man in glasses daubing a painting of a woman with a paintbrush while a man in a suit carrying a clipboard looks on

Repairable or Ruined: How Insurers Determine Whether a Damaged Artwork Is a Total Loss

Decisions are typically guided by specialists whose judgments balance material repair against long-term market perception.
By Daniel Grant
A woman stands smiling in a warm, wood-floored gallery space with textured wall hangings and low platform seating as part of Onna House Soho.

Meet the Collector: Lisa Perry On Bringing Her Women-Centered Onna House to Soho

Her gallery's rotating installations allow collectors to encounter artworks in arrangements that evoke a lived-in, domestic environment.
By Mána Taylor
A mildly cubist rendering of a hand with a coin, a hand with a heart and an artwork on an easel

Why Some Collectors Sell Their Artworks Through Trusts

By Daniel Grant
Two people pose in a modern room with a long light-colored daybed, standing and sitting beneath a large abstract painting of soft, wavelike shapes.

Meet the Collector: Ronald Harrar On Redefining Rules and Roles in a More Fluid Art World

By Elisa Carollo
Klimt’s dazzling full-length portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, her figure shimmering against a dreamscape of Asian-inspired motifs and ornamental splendor.

The Top Collections (and Their Top Lots) Headlining the $1.6 Billion November Sales

By Elisa Carollo
Glenstone Museum

A Museum Lover’s Guide to Maryland’s Glenstone

By Dian Parker
A man in a white T-shirt seated on a couch holding a framed painting of a stylized tree with red circular fruits against a muted landscape.

Meet the Collector: Raphaël Isvy Wants to Rewrite the Rules of Buying and Selling Art

By Elisa Carollo
Professional portrait of Jeffrey Yin, CEO of Artsy, sitting down and smiling with his elbows on his knees. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with his name and title "CEO, Artsy" on the right side.

Artsy CEO Jeffrey Yin: The Next Era of Collecting Will Be Personal, Transparent and Global

By The Editors
A woman stands with folded arms in front of a colorful figurative painting depicting multiple expressive characters in dramatic poses.

Meet the Collector: Kim Manocherian Is Building Narratives Through Art

By J. Cabelle Ahn
Five individuals stand together in a white gallery space beneath a wall text reading “STAND HERE YOU ARE ART,” with one person elevated on a wooden pedestal.

Meet the Collectors: Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Share the Passion and Vision Behind Magazzino Italian Art

By Elisa Carollo
Exhibition view featuring Michael Kagan’s Apollo capsule sculpture, surrounded by abstract paintings and Noguchi lamps from the CLTV Collection.

Collector Yu Kimoto Explains How Japan’s Next Gen Collectors Are Rethinking the Art World

By Elisa Carollo
Stylized Art Deco–inspired illustration of a masked burglar in dark clothing stealing a framed abstract geometric painting, depicted in bold angular lines with deep orange, red, and blue tones.

How to Protect Your Art Collection from Theft, According to the Experts

By Daniel Grant
A hooded, faceless figure sits at a laptop surrounded by orange binary code, symbolizing digital impersonation and online art scams.

Inside the Art World’s Latest Scams: Fake Profiles, Fraudulent Consignments and Digital Impersonation

By Elisa Carollo
A wide view of a brightly lit hallway-style gallery space in a medical or institutional setting shows framed portrait paintings and drawings hung on white walls and a glass partition, including a large colorful portrait on the right in the foreground and several smaller works in the background.

A Collector’s Guide to Donating Art to Hospitals and Other Nonprofits

By Daniel Grant
A Sotheby’s auctioneer leans on the podium in front of Francis Bacon’s painting, with a Basquiat work partially visible beside it and an audience seated in the foreground.

London Sees Its Best Evening Auction Results in Years

By Elisa Carollo
A rough-textured bronze bust of a man with a gaunt, elongated face and hollow eyes, emerging from a heavily worked base that blurs into his shoulders.

Christie’s Secures Another Major Consignment in Max Berry’s Encyclopedic Art Collection

By Elisa Carollo
Frida Kahlo’s 1940 painting El sueño (La cama) depicting the artist sleeping under a skeletal figure on a canopy bed.

Sotheby’s Bets Big On Abu Dhabi With a $150 Million Preview and Luxury Collectors’ Week

By Elisa Carollo
Portrait of Henry Clay Frick in the West Gallery of his Pittsburg home, Clayton c. 1925.

The Frick Legacy: Taste, Ambition and a Collector’s Monument

By Megan Fox Kelly
'Canyon', one of the pieces in the Combines exhibition at MOCA by Robert Rauschenberg: Combines ope

Destruction, Donation, Disposition: The Strange Economics of Unsellable Art

By Daniel Grant
Portrait of Alphan Eşeli and Demet Müftüoğlu Eşeli in a stylish, book-filled interior; she sits in a leather chair, he stands casually.

How Demet and Alphan Eşeli’s ISTANBUL’74 Reimagines Turkey’s Role in the Global Arts Scene

By Elisa Carollo
Rothko’s vast fields of red and orange hover on a yellow ground, radiating quiet intensity in a private interior setting.

Will Trophy Estates Jolt an Auction Market on the Rocks This November?

By Elisa Carollo
An ornate theater interior with gilded balconies and soft pink lighting, featuring a large video projection on stage showing a close-up of a pale-faced figure with short blond hair illuminated dramatically against a dark background.

The New Futures Production Fund Links the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation and NYC’s New Museum

By Elisa Carollo
An art gallery installation view shows several works themed around houses, including colorful paintings, photographs, and wooden sculptures arranged across a white-walled space.

Meet the Collector: For John Wieland, Collecting Art Is About Feeling at Home

By Leia Genis
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