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Collecting

  • Friday, 6 March, 2026
    The Art Market
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026

    The art and antiques fair prompts a journey through military masterpieces, the latest discoveries about culture and the brain, and the new rules of collecting old masters. Plus: how to restore a Rubens

    A small red and black sculpture of a figure riding an elephant
  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026
    The new rules of collecting Old Masters

    Next-gen collectors are propelling lesser-known names to ever-greater heights

    An illustration showing Biagio d’Antonio’s “Portrait of a Young Man wearing a Red Berretto,” depicting a young man in a red cap against a landscape.
  • Thursday, 5 March, 2026
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026
    Has GPS destroyed the art of maps? These Enlightenment masters show us how it’s done

    An exhibition at Tefaf Maastricht presents 18th-century city plans not merely as scientific tools of the age, but great works of art in their own right

    A detailed engraved map section of Paris from 1739, showing streets, buildings, courtyards, and the labelled Place des Victoires.
  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026
    In an age of endless scroll, can photographs entice collectors again?

    Photography shows have been a major draw for museums around the world, but the market is still catching up

    Black-and-white portrait photograph of a young male model, naked from the chest up, staring into the camera as he wears a large, flamboyant brimmed hat with bows.
  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    Visual Arts
    Interview. The hit-making Florence museum that mixes Old Masters with Rothko and social media star Kaws

    The key to Palazzo Strozzi’s success, says Arturo Galansino, is drawing out the modernity of the medieval city’s art

    A man in a dark suit and glasses stands in front of a display of Fran Angelico paintings.
  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2026
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026
    Restoring a painting is one of life’s great pleasures

    An effervescent hunt scene by Rubens is set to spring into life, thanks to experts at Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie

    An illustration showing a chaotic boar hunt with hunters on foot and horseback, dogs attacking the boar, and dense forest surroundings.
  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2026
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026
    These women were Golden Age masters — why have they been ignored by art historians?

    An ambitious exhibition highlights the glory of Low Countries artists still ripe for rediscovery, centuries after their first fame

    From left to right: Maria van Oosterwijck holding a palette and brushes, Louise Hollandine in a colourful hat and pearls.
  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2026
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026
    Can looking at this painting slow dementia?

    Researchers are reporting surprising discoveries about culture’s impact on health — but what is art actually doing to our brains?

    Renaissance oil painting of an elderly, bearded, bare-chested man in a red robe, looking upward, depicted in dramatic light against a dark background.
  • Monday, 2 March, 2026
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026
    Papers, please: how anti-terror rules caught antique dealers in a red tape nightmare

    EU regulation to stop the trade in stolen or looted artefacts has become a daily headache for the art market

    A carved and painted limestone relief from ancient Egypt showing a seated harpist playing a large harp, with a standing figure beside them and two smaller figures below.
  • Monday, 2 March, 2026
    Tefaf Maastricht 2026
    Suit up! A specialist’s guide to antique armour and weaponry

    Military pieces have beguiled cultural figures from Henry Moore to William Boyd — but there is no typical collector

    A dark room filled with weaponry including pistols, a full set of knight’s armour, a sword and saddle
  • Friday, 27 February, 2026
    We are family: an HTSI arts special
    Ivor Braka: ‘The best gift I’ve ever given was a fishing boat to Jerry Hall’

    The art collector and pub owner loves lizard cowboy boots, Walter Sickert and curry and chips

    Ivor Braka in the office of his London home with Sami, his Saluki
  • Tuesday, 24 February, 2026
    HTSI
    Once a symbol of resistance, the Asafo military flag is flying once again

    As radical as they are radiant, the Ghanaian banners are now highly collectible

    “The Welcoming Tree” flag by Baba Issaka hangs in The Cornrow owner Kemide Lawson’s house in north London
  • Saturday, 21 February, 2026
    Interiors
    Beauty entrepreneur Terry de Gunzburg auctions her museum-worthy collection of art and design

    Almost 200 pieces, many from her New York apartment, include paintings by Rothko and Picasso, and furniture by Jacques Grange and Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann

    Dining room in Terry de Gunzburg’s NYC home featuring a long table, woven chairs, and three large framed artworks with orange backgrounds.
  • Friday, 20 February, 2026
    HTSI
    Thanks to Dior, silver pin cushions are back on point

    How a dinky 17th-century trinket took on a new fashionability

    A teaser image for Dior’s SS26 menswear show depicted a silver pin cushion
  • Friday, 20 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    Can pop stars paint? Why A-listers long to be taken seriously as artists

    From Ed Sheeran’s Pollock-inspired drips to Sylvester Stallone’s international exhibitions, celebrities yearn for art world recognition

    Cartoon-ish illustration of an artist (dressed a stereotypical apron, beret and sandals, shielding himself with a painter’s palette) battling with a rock star (dressed in black, wearing cowboy boots, with a red electric guitar strapped around his back) having a “sword fight” using paintbrushes.
  • Friday, 20 February, 2026
    FT Collecting Supplements
    Frieze LA 2026

    LA fires one year later; interviews with Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, Greta Waller and Amanda Ross-Ho; artists against ICE. Plus: the problem with celebrity painters

    Painting of a covered patio at night, situated next to a swimming pool, overlooking the lights of the city and trees
  • Thursday, 19 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    This artist plans to set the Earth in orbit — around a football pitch

    Amanda Ross-Ho’s supersized sculptures and absurdist performances find humour in the mundane

    Amanda Ross-Ho stands on a treadmill in her studio, surrounded by colourful artworks, boxes, and a large yellow letter "A".
  • Thursday, 19 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    The powerhouse gallerists behind Sprüth Magers have never lost an artist. Here’s why

    Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers on going global while ‘staying small’

    Monika Sprüth stands on the left and Philomene Magers sits on a chair at their Berlin gallery, with artwork partially visible on the wall.
  • Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    Six shows to see in Los Angeles during Frieze Week 2026

    From Robert Therrien’s towering tables to Alejandro G Iñárritu’s resurrected footage, don’t miss these essential exhibitions

    Installation view an exhibition, with Lu Yang's art film "DOKU The Flow" being shown on a large screen with five transparent inflatable chairs on the floor in front of it. The still from the film shows a digital cityscape.
  • Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
    The Art Market
    The art world’s next battleground? Ski resorts

    Intimate art fairs and international galleries are competing to be the destination of choice for the Alpine glitterati

    A brightly lit pink carousel swing ride by Carsten Höller stands on snow with mountains and trees in the background.
  • Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    The LA artists leading an ‘irresistible resistance’ against ICE

    From pop-up performances for small businesses to nocturnal protests against immigration raids, creativity has become part of activists’ toolkit

    A series of neon signs on a black background, one reading “Deport Ice”, another reading “No Body Is Illegal”, another reading “Then They Came For Me 2”.
  • Tuesday, 17 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    No queueing please! How to keep art world VIPs happy

    Fairs need to strike a balance between offering a buzzy affair and a pleasant experience to satisfy these collectors

    Gwyneth Paltrow at Frieze LA 2025. She stands indoors wearing a black top and sunglasses hanging from her collar, with people and abstract art in the background.
  • Tuesday, 17 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    Greta Waller on being a painter and paramedic: ‘It’s a sickness. I have to do it’

    In contrast to the chaos and stress of the LA artist’s medical work, there’s an intense focus to her still lifes of melting ice, decaying fruit and X-rays

    Greta Waller sits in a wicker chair with painting supplies in her lap, wearing gloves, in front of a colourful mural.
  • Monday, 16 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    Henry Pearlman assembled a trove of modernist masterpieces. This is your last chance to see it in its full glory

    The peerless collection of works by Van Gogh, Cézanne, Manet and Modigliani will be gifted to museums across the US

    An abstract portrait painting by Amedeo Modigliani of Jean Cocteau, featuring elongated facial features and a stylised suit.
  • Monday, 16 February, 2026
    Frieze LA 2026
    The LA fires changed these artists’ lives — a year later, they’re still dealing with the fallout

    A slew of exhibitions ruminate on displacement, rebirth and the climate threat looming over the city’s future

    Artist Christina Quarles sits in an art studio, surrounded by paint and paintings, her red vest, white trousers and yellow Crocs all spattered in paint. Artist Christina Quarles in her studio in Altadena, just north of LA, photographed for the FT by Marcus Ubungen
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