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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UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting
The Art Newspaper
MAY 12, 2025
The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years
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The Golden Age of Coin Collecting: Navigating the 2025 Precious Metals Market
Antique Appraisers Auctioneers
MAY 14, 2025
Remember when your grandpa’s dusty coin collection seemed like nothing more than a quirky hobby? Gold and silver: The dynamic duo of precious metals – source Gold and Silver Coins Buyers: Choosing Your Champion So, you’ve decided to cash in on your coin collection or part with some precious metals.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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Sale of the Millhiser Collection
Maine Antique Digest
APRIL 7, 2025
The collection sent Freemans | Hindman, New York City Photos courtesy Freemans | Hindman Freemans | Hindman sold 26 lots that included American furniture, needlework, a set of four Georgian silver candlesticks, and three Oriental rugs in 39 minutes on January 27 at the New York City gallery at 32 East 67th Street.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Carole Carpenter Wahler Collection
Maine Antique Digest
APRIL 11, 2025
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland Photos courtesy Crocker Farm It was the highest-grossing single-owner stoneware and redware auction of all time, wrote Brandt Zipp in a follow-up email after the sale of the Carole Carpenter Wahler collection. The total gross for the 302-lot sale was $1,338,810 (including buyers premiums). All lots were sold
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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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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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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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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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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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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 Vander Sande Collection at Brunk Auctions
Maine Antique Digest
APRIL 14, 2025
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions The entire 211-lot catalog for the March 12 sale at Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, was devoted to the collection of Marie-Teresa and John (1944-2024) Vander Sande of Newbury, Massachusetts.
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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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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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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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Rare Jacobite glasses collection to sell
Antique Collecting
MAY 12, 2025
A rare collection of historic Jacobite ‘traitor’ glasses, worth tens of thousands of pounds and likely to attract worldwide interest, The post Rare Jacobite glasses collection to sell appeared first on Antique Collecting.
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Deutsche Bank re-hangs massive collection at new London headquarters
The Art Newspaper
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
German conglomerate also commissions works by four artists for UK base
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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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