A lifetime collection can become an heir’s logistical, financial and emotional burden overnight. From changing taste and stale valuations to museum gifts, digital art and forced sales, what serious collectors should plan before the collection becomes an estate.

The Bayeux Tapestry opens at the British Museum after returning to England for the first time in nearly 1,000 years. Beyond 1066, it is a lesson in material, narrative and conservation.

Pierre Chapo’s elm furniture has moved from connoisseur design into the art collector’s field of vision. The reason is not fashion alone: his best pieces make construction itself the subject.

Cecily Brown’s Picture Making turns uncertainty into a painterly method: figures emerge, dissolve and return across twenty-five years of paintings, drawings and monotypes.

MUAC, Museo Tamayo, Museo Jumex and kurimanzutto lead an unusually strong September in Mexico City, from Julian Rosefeldt and John Giorno to Richard Prince and a transatlantic reconsideration of Tamayo, Nieto and Toledo.

From Richard Meier’s glass-walled rooms to Gutai paintings, Arte Povera and site-specific sculpture, the Rachofsky House shows what happens when art leaves the gallery and becomes part of daily life.