You do not need a fortune or an art history degree to begin. You need patience, and the confidence to buy what you actually love. By Nicole Junkermann People often tell me they would love to collect art but assume it is a world closed to them, reserved for the very rich or the very expert. I understand the feeling, and I think it is mostly wrong. Some of the most rewarding collections I know were started with very little money and no special training, by people who simply pai

Why a shelf of monographs and catalogues might be the most rewarding, and most affordable, way to live with art. By Nicole Junkermann Not everyone can fill a home with original art, but anyone can build a library about it, and I have come to think the art book is one of the great underrated pleasures. Long after an exhibition has closed or a painting has gone back behind glass, the right book keeps it within reach. My own shelves have taught me at least as much as the galleri