In search of trust

Starting a new collection can be daunting. Art advisor Patrick Monahan shares his top tips on what and how to buy and what to avoid

Rufus Bird detects a return to buying art for pleasure

Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market to tell the true stories of the world’s most thrilling frauds, forgeries and heists

DURING A TIME OF RAPID DISRUPTION, A RISING COMMUNITY OF WOMEN ARE RETHINKING THE FUTURE OF THE ART WORLD IN IMAGINATIVE AND EXCITING WAYS. FRIEZE DIRECTOR EVA LANGRET INTRODUCES THE ARTISTS AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES POWER PLAYERS TO KNOW

Whether it is adding contemporary paintings to a gallery of Old Masters or branching out into territories as diverse as Modernist chairs, Iranian tiles or Churchill memorabilia, the passion for collecting seems to run in some families, as Eleanor Doughty discovers

FROM POWERFUL PLACEMENT TO SIZE AND SCALE, INTERIOR DESIGNERS AND ART CONSULTANTS OFFER ADVICE ON DISPLAYING ART FOR MAXIMUM IMPACT AND ENJOYMENT IN THE HOME, WRITES TALLULAH RUSHAYA