Acquisitions
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
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
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
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
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
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
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
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
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
Acquisition funds get first pick at Frieze London
Curators select works by under-represented groups for Tate, while Art Council Collection purchases focus on early-to mid-career artists
Acquisitions round-up: Gauguin’s Le Toit Bleu is among this month’s picks
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Perrotin and its artists have made a €6m donation to the Pompidou—could the move set a precedent?
The gift of 23 works by 17 of the mega gallery's artists, worth over three times the museum's annual acquisitions budget, will go on display next month
Bavaria acquires Picasso’s Woman with a Violin from a private collection
Six sponsors cooperated to buy “a masterpiece of Cubism of priceless art historical value” for the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich
Christie’s to acquire classic car auction house
Gooding & Company was founded in 2003 by a former Christie’s director
Dulwich Picture Gallery makes first acquisition in 12 years—purchasing bronze installation for £176,500
The artists Rob and Nick Carter sold Bronze Oak Grove to the London institution for just the price of the materials they used to make it
Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo
Acquisition is part of £100m deal for The Spectator news magazine