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ICA Miami buys former de la Cruz Collection building

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The acquisition doubles the museum’s space for public programmes, which it will use for a new media gallery, permanent collection displays and more

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A new study seeks to establish ethical collecting practices for US museums

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Penn Cultural Heritage Center’s three-year national study amplifies ongoing calls for transparency and will provide a collecting framework

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New display at Tate Modern highlights role technology can play in expanding the scope of UK museum collections

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Works by four artists were created as part of the Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage research project

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The “Collect: Americana” Sale

Maine Antique Digest

MAY 2, 2024

Freeman’s | Hindman, Philadelphia Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman “Collect: Americana” at Freeman’s | Hindman, Philadelphia, March 20, was pitched to those who can afford to spend a few hundred or a few thousand dollars on furniture and decorative arts. Freeman’s has had success with its “Collect: American Art” sales scheduled on

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Vancouver Art Gallery gifted collection of 122 Modern and contemporary works

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 17, 2025

The gifted works, collectively valued at C$10m ($7m), come from Vancouver collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe and include pieces by Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and more

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Lacma, Moca and the Hammer Museum jointly acquire significant collection of works by Los Angeles artists

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 27, 2024

The three museums will share 260 pieces from the collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, plus recent and future acquisitions of works by local artists

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Schutte Collection at New England Auctions

Maine Antique Digest

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut Photos courtesy New England Auctions New England Auctions’ October 10 and 11 auction in Branford, Connecticut, brought to market the compelling six-decade early Americana collection of Thomas F. and Tess L.

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'Regret when collecting stems from missing out on monetary gain': artist Dominic Chambers on the art he buys

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 18, 2024

The painter, who features in a major Black figurative painting survey at the Kunstmuseum Basel, discusses his growing collection

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Sotheby's secures most valuable single owner collection of Old Master paintings to come to auction

The Art Newspaper

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Around 60 works estimated for a total of $80m to $120m from the collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders will be offered in New York this May

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The Americana Collection of Frank Gaglio

Maine Antique Digest

AUGUST 19, 2024

That’s what happened at the June 6 auction of the collection of Frank Gaglio in the gallery New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut Photos courtesy New England Auctions What do you call an auction of 404 lots where only one lot fails to sell? Fred Giampietro of New England Auctions didn’t know either.

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Montclair Art Museum reimagines its Native collection

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“Interwoven Power” uses a fresh curatorial lens to change the way viewers engage with Indigenous art

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Davos loses out on key Modern and contemporary collection after voters reject Kirchner Museum extension

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Ulmberg collection, comprising works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Lyonel Feininger, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois, may go to the city of Churs art museum in a different Swiss canton

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“Boston Collects” at Doyle

Maine Antique Digest

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Doyle, Boston, Massachusetts Photos courtesy Doyle Still new in town, Doyle’s “Boston Collects” auctions grossed nearly $1.1 million over the course of the auction house’s first year in Boston. The June 7 sale in the Back Bay gallery delivered objects with Boston connections, whether it be the subject, the artist, or some

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Kasper König’s collection fetches €6m at Cologne auction

The Art Newspaper

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Top lots at the auction arranged by the esteemed curator before his death in August included two “date paintings” by On Kawara, a close friend

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Folk Art Collection of Lisa Whittington

Maine Antique Digest

OCTOBER 14, 2024

William Smith Auctions, Plainfield, New Hampshire Photos courtesy William Smith Auctions William Smith Auctions’ single-owner estate auction July 31 held live in the Plainfield, New Hampshire, gallery brought to market the tightly curated folk art collection of Elizabeth “Lisa” Greeley Whittington of Roxboro, North Carolina.

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The Richard Margolis Collection: Part One

Maine Antique Digest

MAY 27, 2024

Stack’s Bowers Galleries, Costa Mesa, California The Richard Margolis Collection: Part One by Lita Solis-Cohen Photos courtesy Stack’s Bowers Galleries The John Stewart at Stony Point medal sold on the phone for $900,000 to a collector who needed it to complete his set of Comitia Americana medals.

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Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 26, 2025

The 90-year-old Manhattan institutionhistoric home of the industrialist Henry Clay Frickopens a new chapter, expanding gallery space and inviting the public into the Frick familys former living quarters for the first time

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The Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter

Maine Antique Digest

MAY 9, 2024

Freeman’s | Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman The first installment of a two-part sale of the barbershop collection of James Carpenter (1929-2021) was held by Freeman’s | Hindman at the company’s Cincinnati location on January 30. A Moxie store sign was the top lot of the day, but personalized

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Axel Rüger leaves London’s Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The RA chief, who saw the institution through the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Ian Wardropper next spring

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Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year

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“American Atmosphere”: A Private Collection at Christie’s

Maine Antique Digest

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Christies, New York City Photos courtesy Christies Holding no American art sales in the fall, Christies filled the void by offering its audience an online-only auction of 62 lots from a single-owner private collection.

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Heiting Library, Cy Twombly and Lewis Carroll Collection: March acquisitions round-up

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 19, 2025

Works acquired by the USs National Gallery of Art, the Menil Collection in Houston and Oxfords Christ Church

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The Sale of Barry D. Hogan’s Collection

Maine Antique Digest

AUGUST 6, 2024

Hogan’s collection is the most recent addition to a long shelf of catalogs for single-owner estate sales of mostly Pennsylvania folk art and what used to be called “country furniture” that the Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc. The catalog for the sale of Barry D.

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Christie’s and Sotheby’s pin hopes for New York November sales on single-owner collections

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In a subdued market, the season’s most promising auctions are of estates

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Bavaria acquires Picasso’s Woman with a Violin from a private collection

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Six sponsors cooperated to buy “a masterpiece of Cubism of priceless art historical value” for the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich

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Art collection saved from Rouen cathedral blaze, says French culture minister

The Art Newspaper

JULY 12, 2024

A fire in the cathedral's spire has been brought under control, saving the landmark which featured in the works of Claude Monet

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More than 80% of young, wealthy Americans want to collect art, survey finds

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 18, 2024

Bank of America surveyed more than 1,000 US citizens with more than $3m in assets for their poll of high-net-worth individuals

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The Haradin Family Collection Finishes Just Shy of $4 Million

Maine Antique Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2024

RSL Auction Company, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Photos courtesy RSL Auction Company The term legacy beautifully explains the Haradin family collection, a stunning array of vintage toys and banks sold on August 3 at RSL Auction Company, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. This richly historical archive of banks and toys was truly a family

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Does the De la Cruz collection sale mark the end of an era?

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 10, 2024

Reduced value, mixed results dent idea of contemporary art as investable asset

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Rijksmuseum launches AI tool to help make connections in 800,000-strong collection

The Art Newspaper

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

The “art explorer” project allows the Dutch museum's vast holdings to be more searchable

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Christie’s to host exhibition of works from owner François Pinault’s Los Angeles collection

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 8, 2025

The non-selling portrait exhibition will be on display at Christies Beverly Hills during the Frieze Los Angeles fair

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The National Gallery, London: an artists’ collection for two centuries

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 4, 2024

The gallery's curators reveal the role played by living artists and women in building the institution’s all-embracing character over the past 200 years

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Los Angeles wildfire reaches Getty Villa grounds, but ‘staff and the collection remain safe’

The Art Newspaper

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cultural organisations around the Los Angeles have been forced to close and some "expect the worst"

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More than 1,100 works by 400 artists: how the National Gallery collection will be redisplayed

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 4, 2024

In May 2025, after a nine-month programme of refurbishing, redesigning and relighting rooms, a new interpretation of the museum will be unveiled

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The Sale of Richard Wattenmaker’s Collection

Maine Antique Digest

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Freeman’s | Hindman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman Freeman’s | Hindman in Philadelphia kicked off the fall season Sunday, September 22, with a single-owner sale of American and European art, American furniture, fraktur, pottery, and the art of the blacksmith, most of it French wrought iron, from the collection of

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Haley Toy Collection Surpasses $2.48 Million

Maine Antique Digest

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Pre-Internet collecting meant days were spent on the road tracking down antiques shops, visiting advanced collectors who had already acquired what you desired,

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A storied public art collection in California makes space for emerging artists

The Art Newspaper

JULY 9, 2024

The Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego is launching an emerging artist programme with a trio of new commissions

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Part One of Smith Toy Collection Reaches $1.27 Million

Maine Antique Digest

JULY 10, 2024

It was the first session (part two is upcoming) of the dispersal of the lifetime collection of Linda Smith and Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions The March 16 sale at Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey, was one for the books if acquiring pre-1900 American toys was the goal.

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The Collection of Charlie Huntress

Maine Antique Digest

JANUARY 7, 2025

Gurley Antiques Gallery, Limington, Maine Photos courtesy Gurley Antiques Gallery On Monday, October 28, Rachel and Joshua Gurley, the brother-and-sister team best known for producing a large slate of antiques shows, offered the collection of collector Charlie Huntress via LiveAuctioneers. The sale was held entirely online in a timed format.

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Collectible fair offers handcrafted design and artists’ functional objects in New York debut

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Belgian fair’s first stateside edition offers objects for every aesthetic sensibility and budget

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The Kindig Collection

Maine Antique Digest

APRIL 11, 2024

Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc. The two-day sale at Pook & Pook, Inc., February 8 and 9 was a diverse assemblage of antique furniture and furnishings from the Kindig warehouses. It marked the end of an antiques business run by three generations of Kindigs in

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Noguchi and Marisol sculptures lead sale of storied Abrams family collection

The Art Newspaper

AUGUST 27, 2024

Works owned by the founders of art-book publisher Abbeville Press could make up to $16m at Sotheby’s

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The estate of the late American photographer Larry Fink acquired by the MUUS Collection

The Art Newspaper

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The firm, which purchases, studies and promotes the work of under-recognised photographers, will stage a show of Fink's images at Paris Photo in November

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The Saunders collection will be a real test of the Old Master market

The Art Newspaper

MARCH 6, 2025

Due to be sold at Sotheby's New York in May, the group of works includes pieces by Guardi and Canaletto and is billed as the "most valuable single-owner collection of Old Master paintings ever to appear at auction"

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ICA Miami buys former de la Cruz Collection building

A new study seeks to establish ethical collecting practices for US museums

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New display at Tate Modern highlights role technology can play in expanding the scope of UK museum collections

The “Collect: Americana” Sale

Vancouver Art Gallery gifted collection of 122 Modern and contemporary works

Lacma, Moca and the Hammer Museum jointly acquire significant collection of works by Los Angeles artists

Schutte Collection at New England Auctions

'Regret when collecting stems from missing out on monetary gain': artist Dominic Chambers on the art he buys

Sotheby's secures most valuable single owner collection of Old Master paintings to come to auction

The Americana Collection of Frank Gaglio

Montclair Art Museum reimagines its Native collection

Davos loses out on key Modern and contemporary collection after voters reject Kirchner Museum extension

“Boston Collects” at Doyle

Kasper König’s collection fetches €6m at Cologne auction

Folk Art Collection of Lisa Whittington

The Richard Margolis Collection: Part One

Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation

The Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter

Axel Rüger leaves London’s Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection

Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works

“American Atmosphere”: A Private Collection at Christie’s

Heiting Library, Cy Twombly and Lewis Carroll Collection: March acquisitions round-up

The Sale of Barry D. Hogan’s Collection

Christie’s and Sotheby’s pin hopes for New York November sales on single-owner collections

Bavaria acquires Picasso’s Woman with a Violin from a private collection

Art collection saved from Rouen cathedral blaze, says French culture minister

More than 80% of young, wealthy Americans want to collect art, survey finds

The Haradin Family Collection Finishes Just Shy of $4 Million

Does the De la Cruz collection sale mark the end of an era?

Rijksmuseum launches AI tool to help make connections in 800,000-strong collection

Christie’s to host exhibition of works from owner François Pinault’s Los Angeles collection

The National Gallery, London: an artists’ collection for two centuries

Los Angeles wildfire reaches Getty Villa grounds, but ‘staff and the collection remain safe’

More than 1,100 works by 400 artists: how the National Gallery collection will be redisplayed

The Sale of Richard Wattenmaker’s Collection

Haley Toy Collection Surpasses $2.48 Million

A storied public art collection in California makes space for emerging artists

Part One of Smith Toy Collection Reaches $1.27 Million

The Collection of Charlie Huntress

Collectible fair offers handcrafted design and artists’ functional objects in New York debut

The Kindig Collection

Noguchi and Marisol sculptures lead sale of storied Abrams family collection

The estate of the late American photographer Larry Fink acquired by the MUUS Collection

The Saunders collection will be a real test of the Old Master market

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