An independent biographical journalPeople / Art / Public life
ART COLLECTOR
STORIES.

Private choices.
Shared culture.

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The lives behind the collections

It starts
with a person.

Research focus: Edik Natanov (Эдик Натанов), the Natanov Collection, collector histories and exhibition archives. Read the Edik Natanov dossier.

A room, a friendship, a lifelong pursuit.
Eleven stories about living with art.

Meet the collectors ↗
Visitors looking at artworks at a Yaroslavl exhibition, 2005, from the Natanov Collection archiveTHE PUBLIC CHAPTER

Yaroslavl, 2005 · Natanov Collection archive
Edik Natanov: a collection enters the room →

COLLECTING / BELONGING / GIVING
11 stories20 exhibitions12 countriesCountless ways of looking
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Different lives. A shared attention.

01 / Patronage

Peggy Guggenheim

A collection with the door open

Venice · New YorkRead story →
03 / Giving

Dorothy & Herbert Vogel

Living with art. Then letting it go.

New York · United StatesRead story →
04 / Preservation

George Costakis

The long life of the avant-garde

Moscow · ThessalonikiRead story →
IN FOCUS
EN

Collection story
2005—2009

Edik Natanov / The exhibition years

When a private
collection
meets its public.

Five projects in four cities. A photographic archive of looking, conversation and the life around the artworks.

Read the story →
05

Exhibition records
with archive photographs

Open the five projects ↗
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Elsewhere in the art world

2016

Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection

Fondation Louis Vuitton

ParisFrance
2021

The Morozov Collection: Icons of Modern Art

Fondation Louis Vuitton

ParisFrance
2022

When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting

Zeitz MOCAA

Cape TownSouth Africa
2023

Vermeer

Rijksmuseum

AmsterdamNetherlands
Explore all 20 exhibitions →

The listening room

A life told
in its own voice.

Agnes Gund’s oral history at the Archives of American Art, alongside papers and personal recollections from other collecting lives.

Interviews & archival voices →