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Collecting

  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    HTSI
    Tulipieres for spring: still groundbreaking

    The multi-spouted Delftware flower vase is popular with designers and collectors once again

    The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s design special looks to east Asia
    Catch ’em all! How Pokémon cards came to fetch millions

    As the Japanese game approaches its 30th birthday, its rarest editions are worth fortunes

    A still from Pokémon: The First Movie, 1998
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    The Art Market
    Magritte takes Picasso’s crown — seven lessons from a tough year for the art market

    International art sales have slumped, the Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report finds — with fears that tariffs will have a seismic impact

  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Visual Arts
    Adriana Varejão on her most shocking painting: ‘It’s important to see this violence’

    The Brazilian artist is preparing for a major show in Lisbon, pairing her work with the late Paula Rego

    A woman leans against a wall against the backdrop of a statue of a man on a horse with a snake coiled around the animal’s body The snake is about to bite the man
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Visual Arts
    Tate receives ‘transformational’ gift from real estate mogul Jorge Pérez

    The centrepiece of the multimillion-pound donation is a vast triptych by abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell

    A man with a beard stands, hands in pockets, at the top of the steps to a large colonnaded public building
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    The Art Market
    Photo London turns 10 — and eyes a new class of collector

    As the fair returns to Somerset House for its anniversary edition, the founders reflect on new discoveries — and new patrons

    A man sits beside a steamed-up window, with red and yellow colours glimpsed behind
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
    Past cultures provide rich seam for contemporary jewellers

    Artefacts and techniques from antiquity to the Renaissance and Asian empires continue to inspire designers

    Museum exhibit of couture dresses displayed on mannequins, surrounded by large framed paintings
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
    Marie-José van den Hout: The gallerist who created a global talent hub

    For more than 40 years, Galerie Marzee in the Netherlands has shaped the market and acted as a repository for remarkable pieces

    Elderly woman smiling, wearing a black outfit and geometric necklace
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
    Cameos on the comeback as collectors focus on craft and history

    Interest in ancient mythology is attracting buyers and spurring designers to produce pieces with a contemporary twist

    Oval cameo pendant with a white profile of a laureled male figure, set against a brown background and bordered by red gemstones in a gold frame
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
    Florida show puts artists’ jewellery firmly in the canon

    An exhibition of pieces from Picasso to Warhol seeks to change perceptions of their status in creators’ bodies of work

    Woman seated on a red velvet sofa in an elegant, art-filled living room
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    HTSI
    Who wants a Fabergé zoo? Prices start at £10k

    Castle Howard is setting free its 31-strong menagerie

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Money laundering
    Top art galleries fined for money-laundering failures

    Penalties from UK tax authority come as market prepares for sanctions compliance obligations

    The White Cube gallery in Bermondsey, London
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    The Art Market
    A mysterious $100mn trove of rare coins — hidden from the Nazis — to be auctioned

    Amassed by an obsessive connoisseur dubbed ‘The Traveller’, it is the most valuable collection of its kind to be sold at auction

    A number of gold coins on a black surface
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    The Art of Fashion: the spring/summer 2025 issue
    What to wear at international art fairs

    Dressing for an art fair is not just a question of practicality — to make the right impression, it helps to know the sartorial code

    Two women walk through an art gallery with dark blue walls, featuring black-and-white abstract portraits. One wears a black coat and beret, the other a blue blazer and trainers
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    Taiwanese entrepreneur Pierre Chen on living with art, an elusive Rothko — and the C-word

    Great paintings help the electronics magnate balance work stress — just don’t call him a ‘collector’

    Older man in glasses, wearing a white shirt and pale trousers, standing under a huge metal spider sculpture in a dimly lit, lavishly decorated apartment
  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    Why Hong Kong has become the art world’s enigma

    Local gallerists, advisers and collectors urge a more nuanced look at a city in transition

    Painting depicting a washed-out landscape of a city, backed by orange, that looks almost like an X-ray
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    Hong Kong’s golden age of cinema charmed the world — and left an enduring legacy

    Populated by hawkers, lovers and gangsters, classic films expressed the melting-pot city’s soul — and are now being celebrated anew

    A young Chinese woman wearing bright red lipstick and a qipao gown stands in front of patterned floral wallpaper
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    FT Collecting Supplements
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025

    What makes the city an art world mystery? Plus: interviews with Pearl Lam, Pierre Chen and Lu Yang; and much more

    Landscape painting populated by multi-coloured serpents and dragons that look like striped hills and mountains
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    Chen Wei: ‘We are in an era of isolation — everyone is an island’

    The Beijing-based artist’s solo exhibition at Hong Kong’s Blindspot Gallery paints a poignant picture of urban ennui

    Man in glasses, wearing a black hoodie and grey sweatpants, sits in a swivel chair in a studio, surrounded by what looks like high-end audio-visual technology
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    Is AI coming for art fairs? This android artist has a proposal — with a twist

    Doku, the digital avatar of Chinese artist Lu Yang, is hosting a pop-up store at Art Basel Hong Kong

    A digital avatar sits cross-legged on a futuristic chair surrounded by screens, cables and neon lights
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    Pearl Lam: ‘You cannot have great collectors without great museums’

    The trailblazing gallerist on the transformation of Hong Kong’s art world and what’s driving a new class of collectors

    Woman in a bobbed haircut, wearing a loose-fitting, bright green roll-neck sweater, in a lavish apartment filled with colourful abstract paintings, sculptures, vases and high-end furniture
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    A pitch-black art gallery — now that’s a bright idea

    Empty Gallery, a ‘black-cube’ arts space situated in a Hong Kong high-rise, has a reputation for immersive, experimental experiences

    A dark all-black gallery with two sculptures of dogs on plinths
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    How Picasso became the ultimate prize for China’s new collectors

    In recent years, major works have gone to private buyers in Asia — a new exhibition puts the artist’s relationship with the region in the spotlight

    Cubist painting by Picasso of. young woman, using distorted angles and viewpoints, with the face painted in shades of yellow and green, against orange walls
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    The ancient Chinese didn’t just invent gunpowder — they created the picnic

    A lively exhibition at Hong Kong’s Palace Museum explores the culture of feasting — including a centuries-old predecessor to Deliveroo

    Detailed ink-on-paper drawing of an outdoor picnic scene from Qing-dynasty China, with around seven men seated around an outdoor table, being waited upon by staff
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    ReviewVisual Arts
    We think of Weimar Berlin as decadent and debauched — thanks to these painters

    ‘Neue Sachlichkeit/New Objectivity’ at New York’s Neue Galerie seethes with acid-tinged art — it’s both enlightening and infuriating

    A woman reclines on leopard skin, staring at us with cat’s eyes; behind her a dog shows its teeth
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