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Collecting

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Office life
    Art for work’s sake

    Corporate collections are investments but also a way to deepen client relationships and tempt staff to the office

    3 hours ago
    Britta Farber of Deutsche Bank, in front of Anish Kapoor’s ‘Turning the World Upside Down III’, 1996
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Interview
    Artist Lawrence Lek is using AI to explore whether robots can suffer

    The winner of the Frieze Artist award 2024 has created a ‘carebot’ with emotional problems

    Man sits on a rug in an unfurnished room, with cardboard boxes and a computer screen on the floor behind him
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Restrictive EU law could benefit London’s Asian art scene

    Art from ancient to new is being sold in galleries, auction houses and Frieze Masters this autumn

    Stylised Japanese painting  of a green, grassy mountain, topped with dark blue forest, with white clouds over the top
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Interview
    Collector Kiran Nadar on Indian art and building museums

    Her 15,000 artworks range from the Bombay Progressives to Olafur Eliasson and Anish Kapoor

    Smiling lady in a colourful, striped dress in front of art hanging on the wall
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Interview
    Artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings: ‘We felt that anything we saw in art history, we could also do’

    The couple’s commission for Art on the Underground is an ambitious mosaic in St James’s Park station

    Two women in an art studio embrace, both seated behind a partially made wooden frame for a canvas painting
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Curator Pablo José Ramírez: ‘Art history doesn’t belong exclusively to the western world’

    His new section at Frieze London brings together Indigenous and diaspora artists, with a focus on clay

    A man seated, wearing tinted glasses, a black polo-neck sweater and a dark navy blue suit
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Frieze Focus places emerging artists centre stage

    The section features helium-propelled penguins and alabaster creatures

    Dozens of small, cartoonish, inflatable penguins are dotted around the floor of an art gallery, all facing in different directions
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Economic and political challenges threaten London’s art market

    The Frieze art fairs return as global sales fall and costs rise, but organisers have plans to increase attractiveness

  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Interview
    Gallerist Maureen Paley: ‘I want to keep things to a more intimate scale’

    The New Yorker has witnessed London’s art market grow from quiet origins into a high-octane scene over the past 40 years

    A woman with dark hair, in sunglasses, leaning against a mantel shelf, wearing a long black frock coat, black trousers, a white top and a red scarf
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: October
    My Favourite Pieces: watch dealer Andy Tolley’s flights of fancy

    The Australian has a fascination for pilot watches and what they signify as pieces of history

    An old man wearing a cotton shirt in his home, arms crossed
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: October
    Travelling watch forum props up key collector markets

    The Dubai Watch Week Horology Forum’s focus on the art of watchmaking, rather than sales, attracts a wide range of enthusiasts

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: October
    Fresh spaces add cachet for Hong Kong’s auction scene

    Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams are following Phillips into swisher sites, with architect-designed buildings that allow for different sales formats

    Ballet dancers dressed in red tutus perform on a modern stage during an event at Christie’s, with an audience seated in front and photographers capturing the performance
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    The Art Market
    Artists pitch in to raise $1mn for Kamala Harris

    Sotheby’s debt in the limelight; Christie’s dresses up for Hong Kong; advisory firm opens in Paris; Guyana artist gets his due at Frieze Masters

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Tom Hanks and the craze for classic communist cars

    The Zastava, Lada and Polski Fiat have come in from the cold

    Tom Hanks with a Polski Fiat 126p in Budapest, 2016
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Designer Ori Orisun Merhav is bringing shellac back

    She uses beetle secretion to blow amber bulbs for her rococo lights

    A young women in a sleeveless white top, a long, terracotta-coloured skirt and heeled mules leans against a crumbling plaster and bare-brick wall. She holds two bird-like forms made up of multiple amber-coloured bubbles
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Designer Michael Marriott: ‘I don’t really like the word “designer”’

    An inspirational maker and teacher in London for 30 years, his designs often employ found objects or adapt existing items

    A middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses, a blue shirt and jeans stands in a doorway. Behind him the room is lined shelves,  crammed full of books
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Substack is design journalism’s irreverent new home

    Newsletters such as Snake, Ground Condition and For Scale are providing independent views on what’s worth buying

    A busy illustration showing various furniture items and electronic symbols
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Collector Luca Bombassei on his love of the Memphis Group’s Ettore Sottsass

    The architect and art patron has filled his Venetian palazzo with surprising contrasts

    A man with grey hair, wearing glasses, a black jacket and white T-shirt, sits at a table in front of shelves full of vibrantly coloured glass vases
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Artist Slawn: ‘You’re buying not just a physical work but a little part of me’

    He has built up a massive social media following for his graffiti-style works

    A young man wearing a white and black T-shirt and white jogging bottoms stands in front of a red bus whose windows are spray-painted with white and red marks
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    HTSI
    Mystery Pier Books – where Hollywood gets its literary fix

    Guillermo Del Toro, Ben Affleck, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, even the Pope come here for rare first editions

    Harvey Jason and his son Louis, outside Mystery Pier Books
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024

    As London’s autumn season begins, we look at new digital ways of buying design and we profile the designer who hates being called a designer

    In her studio young woman in a leather apron and dark trousers sits held up by the thin curling steel arms of a chandelier in progress
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Karla Osorio: ‘I have a young gallery, but one that was started when I was 50’

    The former lawyer and treasury official has been championing Black Brazilian artists

    A painting depicts three large white birds in flight alongside three floating figures. The background is dark and stormy, in multiple shades of grey
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    What to see around London

    From feline chairs to cinematic installations, a trio of exhibitions

  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Feathers, bones and human hair — the new materials for design

    This year’s PAD art and design fair showcases work using unusual means to create otherworldly pieces

    A man wearing a taupe-coloured poncho, matching trousers and a black, wide-brimmed hat, sits cross-legged among a collection of glowing, cloud-like sculptures
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    The Art Market
    Art Basel, Frieze and Tefaf pledge to halve carbon emissions by 2030

    Dürer found in tip sells for nearly £35,000; indigenous art gallery to open in London

    Two people view abstract paintings in a gallery
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