ARTICLES

Peggy Cooper Cafritz lost more than 300 works in a devastating 2009 fire. The collection she built afterwards reveals why her legacy was never simply about ownership.

At PAMM, forty works drawn largely from Craig Robins’s holdings reveal what happens when a collector follows one artist for decades — and when private conviction becomes public scholarship.

A Nazi-looted painting from Jacques Goudstikker’s collection reportedly survived for years in an Amsterdam cellar after being found in street rubbish. Its return is a lesson in why provenance never expires.

A reported $450 million Blaquier consignment at Sotheby’s is more than a trophy sale: it is a test of how privacy, provenance, guarantees and collection identity create value.

The theft of four Antonello da Messina works from MuMe exposes a paradox at the heart of art crime: the more famous a masterpiece becomes, the harder it is to turn into money.

At Nottingham Contemporary, the gym has entered the museum — but the weights have been replaced by fragments of art history. Lithuanian artist Augustas Serapinas has transformed two of the institution’s largest gallery spaces into something caught between an art school, a sculpture studio and a functioning fitness centre. Physical Culture, his first institutional solo exhibition in England, brings together steel exercise machines, easels and sculptural casts that reference everything from student studies to some of Western art’s most familiar ideals of physical perfection. Among them are replicas derived from Michelangelo’s David and the Apollo Belvedere, figures that have spent centuries functioning as models of the idealised male body. Here, however, their authority is subjected to a rather different form of pressure. They become weights.