Acquisitions
Lee Ufan donates eight paintings to Dia Art Foundation
The Mono-ha master’s works will be featured in 2026 solo exhibition at Dia Beacon
Celebrating its bicentenary, London's National Gallery makes three major acquisitions
Works by Edgar Degas, Carl Gustav Carus and Floris van Dijck have entered the gallery's collection
Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther
The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others
Masterworks from Jacob Rothschild collection go to London's National Gallery and V&A under acceptance in lieu scheme
Guercino’s “King David” and a rare relief by John Deare have been allocated to the London institutions in lieu of inheritance tax on the estate of the celebrated financier, philanthropist and heritage leader
Lacma acquires self-portrait by long-overlooked female Old Master
Virginia Vezzi's "Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" is one of the 112 pieces acquired during the museum's annual Collectors Committee Weekend
London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m
The museum has acquired a 16th-century work by an unknown artist from a family collection
Getty Museum acquires painting by Spanish Renaissance master Luis de Morales following extensive conservation
The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo
Anastasia Bukhman, the Russian-born collector behind a £1m donation to London’s National Portrait Gallery
Art was not a part of the philanthropist’s life growing up in a remote town in Russia, but moving to Europe some years ago opened her eyes, and she is now an avid collector and generous donor
Heiting Library, Cy Twombly and Lewis Carroll Collection: March acquisitions round-up
Works acquired by the US’s National Gallery of Art, the Menil Collection in Houston and Oxford’s Christ Church
Rijksmuseum gives place of honour to newly acquired still life by Golden Age artist Maria van Oosterwijck
Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project supported by Chanel
Los Angeles museum triumvirate makes Frieze purchases
Hammer Museum, Lacma and Moca jointly acquire two works
February acquisitions round-up: a mother's journey, Nordic Modernism and Salvatore Rosa's shadowy witch
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Cartier brooches—once owned by the unconventional arts patron Virginia Courtauld—go on display in London
The diamond-encrusted pieces of jewellery can now be seen in Eltham Palace, Courtauld’s former home
Art Institute of Chicago gifted more than 2,200 French Old Masters
The donation, by Jeffrey and Carol Horvitz, will give visitors unprecedented access to the US's largest collection of French Old Masters
White House art collection adds Carmen Herrera painting
The acquisition, announced by former first lady Jill Biden, makes Herrera the first Latin American woman to have work in the White House collection
Harvard Art Museums receive trove of 64 Edvard Munch works
The works are a bequest from the museums’ late, longtime supporters Philip and Lynn Straus
January acquisitions round-up: Lavinia Fontana’s Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales goes to Tokyo museum
Other acquisitions this month include a Bronze Age Peebles stone hoard, and Yatreda Art Collective’s Abyssinian Queen NFT
Vancouver Art Gallery gifted collection of 122 Modern and contemporary works
The gifted works, collectively valued at C$10m ($7m), come from Vancouver collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe and include pieces by Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Julie Mehretu and more
Elizabeth Catlett bust of Martin Luther King Jr goes on view for first time in 40 years
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco recently acquired the work, which is being exhibited at the de Young Museum ahead of Martin Luther King Jr Day
Ancient Roman statue of Athena goes on public view for first time in more than 200 years
The Halsted A&A Foundation is displaying its recent acquisition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago starting 25 January
MFA Boston acquires 38 photographs by Robert Frank capturing life in 1940s Paris
The experimental images feature in a new exhibition centred on a personal family scrapbook
Acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered 19th-century self-portrait, Van Gogh’s ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’ and a painting by a contemporary Tanzanian artist
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Pérez Art Museum Miami's splashy acquisition at Nada fair
The museum acquired a canvas by the Jamaican artist Simon Benjamin from the stand of New York's Swivel Gallery
Nina Surel’s ceramic symbol of Florida acquired for Miami Beach’s collection at Art Basel
The acquisition is the latest in the city’s annual Legacy Purchase programme
This month's museum acquisitions round-up: Nan Goldin, Artemisia Gentileschi and Picasso
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Toledo Museum of Art uses cryptocurrency to acquire digital art piece
The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ
Rare Fra Angelico crucifixion scene acquired by Ashmolean for £4.48m after tense fundraising campaign
The Oxford museum took action after the UK government placed an export bar on the work earlier this year
Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting
Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’
Acquisitions round-up: Pierre Subleyras’s papal commission, Lasansky's horrors of the Holocaust and Archie Moore's sprawling family tree
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Early Emily Carr watercolour acquired by Canada’s Audain Art Museum
The museum already owns a subsequent, oil-on-canvas work depicting the same subject; both versions of “War Canoes, Alert Bay” will now be displayed together