Art & Collecting

Hauser & Wirth take on Paul Schimmel for Los Angeles gallery

Over the course of the past three decades, Paul Schimmel has become known as one of the most influential curators of his generation

Harry Potter raises £150,000 in auction of first editions annotated by authors

First Editions, Second Thoughts raised a combined total of £439,200 in support of English PEN, the writers’ charity which campaigns for freedom of expression

Spear's Young Turk Awards 2014

Spear’s has long recognised the best young talent in the wealth management industries and we now take this further with our third Young Turk Awards

After Christie's record sale, why are auction prices hitting new heights?

Too much uncertainty, as in 2007 and 2008, leads to a fall in the art market, but a little uncertainty fuels its attractiveness as a safe haven

GalleristNY: Christie's makes $495m in Contemporary sale, highest total ever at auction

The auction saw seven lots over $20 million with buyer’s premium, among them those that led to new auction records for Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Philip Guston

Highlights from the Schorr Collection of Old Masters

Christ Before Pilate by Leonello Spada, courtesy the Schorr Collection

In the latest issue of Spear's, Howard Lewis writes about how his family manages the Schorr Collection of Old Masters. Here you can see nine paintings from the collection.

How to manage a collection of Old Master paintings

There are few worse things than a collection of masterpieces no one gets to see. If you love them, you’ll let them go (to the right places, of course), says Howard Lewis, whose family founded the Schorr Collection

After defeat over the Marquis of Lansdowne, the director of the Geffrye Museum must now resign

There has been victory in saving the pub, but defeat because the Geffrye is back to square one

Adam Dant enters the battle to save the Marquis of Lansdowne from the Geffrye Museum

The pomposity, the arrogance of museum director David Dewing is astonishing. First, there's the mere phrase, 'the Labouring Classes', as de-haut-en-bas as you can imagine

Do I have to charge VAT on the sale of my Old Master?

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