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Collecting

  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: July
    My Favourite Pieces: Paula Rowan’s jewellery uniform of milestone moments

    The Dublin-based glove designer likes to wear mementos of big occasions in her professional and personal life every day

    A woman with curly blond hair wearing a fitted dress stands indoors. Behind her is a wall with a painting, an ornate vase, and a cabinet
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: July
    Sporting heritage sets the pace for vintage stopwatch market

    Long superseded by digital technology, older mechanical pieces are attracting collectors for their history and aesthetics

    a bespectacled middle-aged man in a casual business suit holding a vintage stopwatch
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Doll world: inside the collections of the rich and famous

    Barbie is everywhere. Bows are back. But can dolls shed their creepy image?

    Three dolls stand in an outdoor setting with rubble and debris in the background. The central doll, with dark hair and a white crop top, poses for a selfie. The other two dolls, with pink and white hair respectively, wear dark pinstripe suits and stand behind her
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Special ReportThe Business of Formula One
    The right formula: buying an F1 car

    Famous collectors, auctioneers and dealers on the allure and challenges of GP machines

    A man in a racing suit and gloves sitting in an open-cockpit race car with the number 7 prominently displayed on its side
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: July
    A relaunch for the Seiko that secretly went into space

    The brand has unveiled a new version of the chronograph astronaut William Pogue slipped into his pocket for a 1973 mission

    Two astronauts aboard the Skylab space station, dressed in brown jumpsuits, manage floating white bags in the microgravity environment. One astronaut is suspended and holding onto the ceiling while the other is positioned lower
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    The Art Market
    Stolen Titian found at bus stop sells for £15mn

    All change for Lévy Gorvy Dayan in Hong Kong; antiquities gallery ruffles feathers at London fair

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    The Art Market
    Sotheby’s sale underwhelms in quiet summer season

    Vivienne Westwood items excite; Gagosian to have first show in Seoul; Frieze London gets a makeover

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Interview
    Collector Hassanein Hiridjee: ‘I’m trying to organise an art scene, practically from zero’

    The businessman’s Fondation H is supporting Madagascar’s artists with exhibitions and programmes

  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Collector Christian Levett on opening a museum devoted to female artists

    The former hedge fund manager is moving antiquities out of his gallery and moving in Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner

    In a painting, three young women dressed in soft dresses in the tones of white, cream and green are captured in a moment of suspense next to a bouquet of white flowers. The two girls in the background stare to their left, the one in the front, before her.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Impressionists beyond France attract attention in movement’s 150th anniversary year

    Overshadowed by French peers since 1874, artists from the UK, Sweden and elsewhere are gaining in prestige and price

    In a painting, pink-shaded mountain peaks extend beyond a picturesque fisherman’s village overlooking a blue-watered bay.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Gallerist Sylvia Kouvali: ‘The market moved to safer artists, with a more conservative approach’

    She gave up her space in Istanbul after tastes changed but has brought her eastern Mediterranean roster to London and Greece

    A young woman wearing a cream shirt, bordeaux shorts and black shoes sits on a cement staircase resting her head on her left hand. On her right, we see a green water hose pipe.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Treasure House Fair returns to London for a second year

    Dealers at the event will be hoping the next edition will bring improved visitor numbers

    In a pop-art painting coloured in red, black and blue dots and lines, a woman’s hand wearing a white glove is shown playing with two straws floating in a drink glass on the left side of the image. On the right, we see a pot full of straws.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    London’s art market thrives as a centre for Old Master drawings

    London Art Week is partnering with new platform Trois Crayons to create a drawings hub

    In a painting, a rural scene rendered in watercolours captures a river and a village as seen from above in warm tones of brown, green, yellow and blue.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    Artist Rebecca Salter: ‘I’m quite happy with disruption’

    The first female president of the Royal Academy has to balance work with painting while redefining the institution’s future

    A middle-aged woman with short grey hair, dark glasses and a white shirt is portrayed painting in a naturally lit studio filled with wooden frames, textiles and paint rollers.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024

    From London Art Week to the Treasure House Fair, the capital is busy with art across millennia. Plus: interviews with artists, gallerists and the president of the Royal Academy

    In a collage, an abstract stone sculpture sitting on a wooden base on the left of the image resembles the roundness of an ancient Venus statuette. In the middle, a painting of a rural scene captures a water-green bridge immersed in a flowery pathway. On the right, a white vase features geometrical, grid-like motifs.
  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    London’s summer art scene 2024
    The artist giving portraits their swagger back

    Stephen Farthing’s show at Kenwood House reinterprets luxurious pictures of aristocrats

    In a painting, two women dressed in opulent Jacobean dresses in the tones of yellow, white and black mirror each other while holding a floral folding fan in their right (or left) hand, respectively. Behind them, a colourful tapestry and curtains background.
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the Jewellery issue
    The influence of Japonisme on jewellery

    Since the decorative Edo period artwork that was shown in Europe more than 150 years ago, Japan has influenced jewellers in the west

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    The Art Market
    Art lender pauses operations because of ‘perfect storm’

    Photography fair cancelled in New York, launches in Hong Kong; tributes pour in for dealer Barbara Gladstone; new head at Artsy

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    HTSI
    Fancy a bit of Bitossi?

    These colourful cult ceramics are now in high demand

    Pieces designed by Aldo Londi between around 1950 and 1970 from the Bitossi archive reissues collection
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The Art Market
    Art Basel big-ticket sales banish ‘doom porn’ warnings

    Jeffrey Deitch gets surreal; textiles all the rage at Liste; lifestyle shop goes down well

    Room with green floor with painting of trees on the wall and a yellow bed and drawers art installation
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    HTSI
    We all want a piece of the ‘Picasso of Greece’

    Alekos Fassianos’s strong colours, Hellenic symbolism and experimental forms have never been hotter

    Alekos Fassianos at home in 2018
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Bill Gross
    Bill Gross to put mark on stamp world with sale of rare collection

    The ‘bond king’ is auctioning a complete set of US postal stamps next week

    one cent Z Grill stamp
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Art Basel 2024
    Collector Haro Cumbusyan: ‘I am drawn to works that are outside of my comfort zone’

    The social entrepreneur and his wife have specialised in new media art — everything from films to holograms

    A middle-aged man dressed in a stripy dark jumper, blue trousers and glasses sits on a leather chair before a busy bookshelf. On the left of the scene, a wide TV screen shows a beach inhabited by floating ears
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Art Basel 2024
    Artist Agnes Denes: ‘When I first started talking about ecological concepts, they were laughing at me’

    Her 1982 artwork ‘Wheatfield’, where she grew grain by the World Trade Center, is being reprised in Basel this summer

    A middle-aged man dressed in navy blue workwear drives a red reaper in a wheatfield against NYC’s sunny skyline
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Art Basel 2024
    When We See Us, Basel — a compelling century of Black figurative painting

    The Kunstmuseum’s show features established names such as Jacob Lawrence and Njideka Akunyili Crosby but also rising stars

    In a painting, a young man wearing an orange headpiece, a blue bodysuit and a beaded necklace smokes a cigarette. Behind him, a naked woman rendered in black and white reclines on a bed
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