One house is wired for smart technology; another has an impressive contemporary-art collection, and a third has an organic Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired design.

If he succeeds, he would have dominion over one of the most important contemporary-art collections in the world.

While most contemporary-art collections come to auctions because of death, divorce or debt, this one has landed at Sotheby's for different reasons.

Together they acquired an ambitious contemporary-art collection for her mother and established Hauser & Wirth.

Miami is home to some of the country's most extraordinary contemporary-art collections in the country.

For a billionaire looking for somewhere special to display his contemporary-art collection, the venerable Palazzo Grassi on Venice's Grand Canal is not bad for a second best.

His own contemporary-art collection will be used to get the museum started.

It will help to form the core of the Hammer's new contemporary-art collection.

A Grant in Indianapolis Like many encyclopedic museums today, the Indianapolis Museum of Art wants to enhance its contemporary-art collections and programs.

If I'd lent money on some contemporary-art collections, as I was asked to several years ago, I'd be out of business by now.