Opening 22 September, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art turns George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s cross-category collecting philosophy into a major public institution.

Inside an I.M. Pei apartment at Kips Bay Towers, an exceptional photography and design collection reveals a mature collecting problem: when every object is strong, editing becomes the real form of connoisseurship.

The Whitney’s first major Minnie Evans retrospective in more than five decades shows why “outsider” and “self-taught” are too small for a practice built from modernity, spiritual vision, botanical structure and rigorous visual invention.

A four-decade London apartment collection coming to Dreweatts combines Regency furniture, antiquities, modern art and deep provenance into a masterclass in cross-category collecting.

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.