(Volume 108/Number 7)ARTnews  |  Summer 2009

‘A Different Ball Game’ Milton Esterow

The top ten collectors on our list

The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors

Our annual list of the world's top collectors

The Faking of the Russian Avant-Garde Konstantin Akinsha and Sylvia Hochfield

With invented provenances, unreliable certificates of authenticity, and “rediscovered” works by artists who are lost to history, forgers are flooding galleries and auction houses with Russian avant-garde fakes. A six-month ARTnews investigation reveals that inauthentic works now outnumber authentic ones

Angst Management David Galloway

In frenzied performances and multilayered installations, Jonathan Meese sings, rants, invents words, invokes taboos, confesses, regresses, and sometimes staples underwear to the wall

‘Buying the Best of the Best’ Eileen Kinsella

Working with a roster of prestigious curators, dealers, and advisers, in just over a decade Steven Cohen has amassed one of the world’s most important private art collections