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Collecting

A display featuring Cecilia Rouncefield's 'Yellow Jersey' from the 2018 Summer Exhibition

RA Exhibitions

8 days ago

Seven tips for starting your own art collection

There are over 1,000 works in the 2021 Summer Exhibition – and most of them are for sale. So how do you choose? Here are our top tips for buying your first pieces of original art.
Cath Kidston with a Donald Judd screenprint of a cube in the old coachhouse of her Gloucestershire home (detail).

RA Exhibitions

> 4 years ago

A designer collection: Cath Kidston on the art in her life

With prints on her walls by Calder, Klee and Keith Haring, Cath Kidston has long been an avid collector, and the London Original Print Fair has been the designer’s hunting ground. Martin Gayford went to see the works adorning her Gloucestershire home.
Jilly Edwards, Wanderlust

Opinion

> 7 years ago

Colour and commodity at COLLECT

This weekend the object takes centre stage at the Saatchi Gallery, as the annual COLLECT art fair gets underway.