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?
Star signs
In 2002 I was living in Berlin. One day my upstairs neighbour Peter told me he had just returned from…
Wealth and misfortune
The potter and author Edmund de Waal revisits familiar terrain at an angle in his third book, Letters to Camondo.…
A passion for collecting
Every so often the past makes a pass at you. An old school report, a train ticket, a curl from…
Political memorabilia
My first reaction on hearing of Margaret Thatcher’s death in 2013 was: ‘Great — now my autograph from her will…
Brushes with fame
Philip Hensher on the precarious fortunes of even the most gifted 19th-century artists
Light fantastic
Andrew Lambirth meets Chris Ingram, the collector behind a much-lauded museum in Woking
