Amy Marks Dornbusch and the AtlasDaughters model of next-generation philanthropy
Amy Marks Dornbusch has form when it comes to philanthropy: she was born to it. The Marks Family Foundation has a long tradition of endowing medical research and broadly humanitarian pursuits. The family’s entrepreneurial credentials are equally broad and long-standing, ranging from technology and venture investing to motorsport and hospitality. Amy is a director of […]
Varvara Roza
Reinventing the traditional gallery model Photo credit: Nicholas Harvey Varvara Roza is a London-based art advisor who is reinventing the traditional gallery model and making her mark on the international art scene. This year marks a defining moment for Roza, as she adds new artists Tom de Freston, Hynek Martinec, Paul Hodgson and Nathaniel Rackowe to her […]
Aaron Roni Neumark’s Astounding Collection
Photo by Mariano Vivanco Dr. Aaron Roni Neumark presides over the most astonishing and historically significant collection of Judaica in the world, accumulated over hundreds of years by his family and enlarged by him. The family history is fascinating enough: a saga of tribulations, oppression and near obliteration, and ultimate survival, worthy of a Hollywood […]
Laurent Asscher: the stratospheric rise of an art patron
Laurent Asscher @AMA Venezia, artwork: WADE GUYTON, photography by Matteo de Mayda Laurent Asscher seems to have achieved the seemingly impossible: in the space of just over 10 years, he has joined the stratospheric yet minuscule world of mega collectors turned art patrons. The art world is magnificently intricate and notoriously complex to navigate, and […]
Isabel Getty interviews art collector Faisal Mahmood
About Faisal Mahmood He is an investor and art collector based between London and the UAE.He started collecting as a university student in London after visiting an artist friend at one of the leading graduate MFA programmes in London. The visit sparked the beginning of a journey of collecting that evolved over the last decade […]
Miltos Kambourides, a Visionary for our times
Miltos Kambourides, a visionary and serial entrepreneur, talks about his ventures
Lio Malca’s Art Universe
The Art Collector Lio Malca had an auspicious start in art. His father, owner of a chain of stores in Colombia, sent him to study finance and economics in Miami and Boston. Upon graduation, Lio did not want to move back to Colombia, so he visited a relative in New York City who had worked […]
Chrysanthos Panas, Art Collector
For the love of Greece “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” In the case of Panas, who coined the name “Athens Riviera” and proceeded to turning it into a brand, the ways are just as multitudinous and soulful as Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetic love dedication to her husband. He too penned […]
Stéphane Lévy: Art + AI = ArtMajeur by YourArt
Conversation with Stéphane Lévy, co-founder of ArtMajeur by YourArt When Maurice Lévy, an art collector and former CEO of advertising giant Publicis, launched yourart.art in 2023, he conceptualised a platform that would leverage the power of AI to create a new global community for artists and art lovers. At the end of 2024, yourart.art, building […]
John Marquez: art collector
Beneath the laid-back, effortless grace of a Floridian in his early 40’s, John Marquez has forged a remarkably rapid reputation for his advances as an art collector. Photo credit: Kevin Beltran Marquez shares his story with a degree of charming modesty that gives the impression that opening Marquez Art Projects, one of the most anticipated […]
Loa Haagen Pictet on the Pictet Art Collection
‘The Dream Job‘ The art collection of Pictet Group, or Collection Pictet, to give it its proper name, is celebrating its 20th year since it was founded. The curator who was tasked with building it is Loa Haagen Pictet Conversation with Loa Haagen Pictet BB: Tell us about yourself LHP: I am originally a Danish […]
The Rockefeller Effect
Conversation with Valerie Rockefeller, chair of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors If a single name were ever synonymous with, and evocative of immense wealth – certainly in the pre- high tech, pre-Elon Musk era – it has to be that of Rockefeller. John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was a legendary American industrialist and […]