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4 months ago

Seven tips for starting your own art collection

There are over 1000 works in the Summer Exhibition – and even better, most of them are for sale. So how do you choose? Here are our top tips for buying your first pieces of original art.

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> 2 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.

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