Acquisitions
Thermal spa developer buys Frida Escobedo's Serpentine Pavilion 2018
Structure will be re-installed as part of Therme Group's art and architecture initiative
Tate acquires four works at Frieze London’s VIP opening
Contemporary Art Society buys Kehinde Wiley film for The Box in Plymouth, while first Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist prizewinner is also announced
Getty acquires archive of Betye Saar
Purchase is part of a new programme known as the African American Art History Initiative
Van Gogh’s postman didn't deliver: how Samuel Courtauld swapped portrait for famous Sunflowers
In this week’s podcast, hear how the British collector changed his mind and acquired the National Gallery's star attraction
Bonhams auction house bought by Epiris private equity group
The British auction house brings in former Sotheby’s financial executive Bruno Vinciguerra as part of the deal
Salvator Mundi will not go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi this month, for reasons unknown
$450.3m Leonardo da Vinci painting was due to be unveiled at museum in two weeks but its display has now been delayed
Italy revokes export licence for the Frick Collection’s princely portrait by Gérard
Italian government claims licence application did not state portrait was of Prince Camillo Borghese
Dallas Museum of Art says thank you to a life-long patron
Institution recognises the “transformational” final gift of its late trustee Margaret McDermott with a special exhibition and new wall labels for more than 400 works she helped acquire
London’s National Gallery acquires painting by Artemisia Gentileschi for £3.6m
Piece by Italian Baroque painter was sold in Paris last year for €2.4m
Leonardo da Vinci’s $450m Salvator Mundi to go on show at Louvre Abu Dhabi on 18 September
The painting will be lent to the Louvre in Paris next year for an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of artist's death
MFA Boston acquires photographs by Graciela Iturbide ahead of major exhibition
The works, which came from Iturbide's own collection, include gifts from the Mexican artist
Lichtenstein Foundation gives hundreds of works to the Whitney and Smithsonian
The organisation wants to get its collection "out into the world", the director says
Dallas Museum of Art acquires Derick Baegert panel, a first for a US museum
The Descent from the Cross is the museum's first acquisition backed by the Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund, a hefty $17m endowment
Displaying the ruins of demolished social housing at the Venice Architecture Biennale is not ‘art-washing’
The V&A acquired a fragment of London's Robin Hood Gardens before it was demolished
American University Museum gets 9,000 works from Corcoran Gallery of Art’s collection
The defunct museum has given the last of its 20,000 works to 22 institutions in Washington, DC
The blueprint for Saudi Arabia's multi-billion-euro project with France
We exclusively reveal the details of the plans for a “historic” collaboration
Lacma acquires major works by women through lively Collectors Committee Weekend
Ten works are added to the permanent collection, including a striking slavery themed installation by Betye Saar and the museum's first sculpture by Ruth Asawa
Controversial 'hip-hop version' of the Virgin Mary given to MoMA
Chris Ofili's work—donated by hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen—was once at the centre of a New York culture war
George Lucas gives Rockwell fans new hope with acquisition of Shuffleton’s Barbershop
The work will first goes on loan in Massachusetts and possibly elsewhere
Dresden receives gift of 1,200 contemporary works from private collector Erika Hoffmann
Gift includes Polke, Warhol, Twombly, Emin, Tillmans
The mirage of riches in museums’ vaults
Putting aside museum ethics, Martin Gammon looks at the financial viability of museums deaccessioning their collection as a quick fix for financial trouble
Gifts multiply for fledgling Palestinian museum’s solidarity collection
Sixty works donated by European and Arab artists will stay at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris until a permanent home is built
Widow of Hitler’s art dealer, Erhard Göpel, bequeaths Max Beckmann works to Berlin
Initial research into provenance 'gave no concrete cause for suspicion that these works were looted', Berlin State Museums says
Ellsworth Kelly’s final work—and only building—opens in Texas
Artist donated his design for Austin to the Blanton Museum in 2015, the year he died
Estate of Nazi propaganda film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, donated to Berlin museums
Trove of photographs, films, manuscripts and letters date back to the 1920s
UK-based Hyman Collection donates 125 photographs to Yale Center for British Art
James Hyman hopes the gift will improve the status of British photography both at home and abroad
Tacita Dean’s film of Hockney smoking bought by Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery
Acquisition heralds triptych of London shows dedicated to Dean
French museums' new hoard of sculptures by Camille Claudel go on show at Musée d’Orsay
State stepped in and purchased major pieces by important female sculptor at auction
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros gives 200 works of Latin American contemporary art to six museums
The 90 works given to MoMA take the museum “in a new direction”, says director Glenn Lowry