Collecting
A satire on the American art world: One Woman Show, by Christine Coulson, reviewed
Rich, pretty Kitty has been admired since childhood – but will the Park Avenue princess spend her entire life as a collectable object for connoisseurs?
What’s a scribbled signature worth?
In 2002 I was living in Berlin. One day my upstairs neighbour Peter told me he had just returned from…
From family home to mausoleum: the Musée Nissim Camondo
The potter and author Edmund de Waal revisits familiar terrain at an angle in his third book, Letters to Camondo.…
Treasures or clutter? The problem of knowing what to keep
Every so often the past makes a pass at you. An old school report, a train ticket, a curl from…
Which political souvenirs are worth hanging on to
My first reaction on hearing of Margaret Thatcher’s death in 2013 was: ‘Great — now my autograph from her will…
The age of the starving artist
Philip Hensher on the precarious fortunes of even the most gifted 19th-century artists
Chris Ingram: from messenger boy to museum benefactor
Andrew Lambirth meets Chris Ingram, the collector behind a much-lauded museum in Woking
