Acquisitions
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
The top ten museum acquisitions of 2017
We look back at some of most important purchases and donations that entered public collections this year
Serpentine 2017 pavilion snapped up by Malaysian buyer
Francis Kéré’s structure in London will head to Kuala Lumpur next year in deal struck with Ilham Gallery
The Pérez Art Museum Miami acquires skateboard drawing with help from Nada
It's the first work acquired as part of the fair's new acquisition fund for the Miami museum
Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey gets treasure trove of Soviet dissident art
The collection of more than 20,000 works by 1,000 artists from throughout the former USSR was secretly amassed over decades by the US economist Norton Dodge
Rockefeller's Matisse and Léger fireplaces reunited in Houston
Museum of Fine Arts confirms acquisition to bring together Modern masterpieces originally commissioned for billionaire's Manhattan penthouse
Francois I’s Book of Hours has left Britain as Louvre starts to raise £8m to buy it
Renaissance manuscript with gold binding is being sold by London jeweller
Tate goes for gender (e)quality in Frieze shopping spree
Frieze Tate Fund picks four works from fair
Archival gifts are 'holy grail' of Edward Hopper
Five thousand items, shared between Whitney and artist's boyhood home, could inspire new exhibitions
Bass Museum acquires Allora & Calzadilla petrol pump
It is the first time a major installation by the US-Cuban duo has entered the collection of a Miami museum
Who is the collector behind the Getty’s windfall master drawings acquisition?
Luca Padulli has been amassing the treasure trove of works at auction over the last 17 years, sources say
Art Gallery of Ontario goes from zero to number two with Diane Arbus acquisition
The Toronto museum becomes the second largest holder of the photographer’s work in the world with the purchase of 522 prints
Souls Grown Deep expands the canon of US art
Foundation helps museums across the US to acquire works by self-taught African-American artists of the South
Anti-colonial Australian works among new acquisitions made by Tate and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Joint programme will see pieces by artists such as Helen Johnson and Richard Bell shared between London and Sydney
Frieze New York fund helps Brooklyn Museum acquire work by Virginia Jaramillo
The septuagenarian American artist is currently showing in institution’s landmark exhibition about black female artists
National Gallery of Canada receives major gift of contemporary art from collector Bob Rennie
The collection of 197 works is largely by Vancouver-based artists like Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Damien Moppet, Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer, but also includes an important piece by Doris Salcedo
Sudanese artist’s haunting images of prison come to MoMA
Purchase of Ibrahim El-Salahi’s work builds on recent efforts to diversify permanent collection
Late artist Marisol leaves the lot to the Albright-Knox
Sculptures, photos, drawings, archives, property and other artists’ works go to the upstate New York museum the artist wanted to be the home for her art
German government steps in with €1.2m to buy looted Kirchner painting
Wilhelm Hack Museum acquires The Judgement of Paris from heir
Major acquisitions announced for Louvre Abu Dhabi
New pieces bolster museum’s collection of more than 600 works
US hedge funder rejects National Gallery's £30m offer to buy Pontormo portrait
Brexit pound slump means that Tom Hill would have lost $10m, but he breaks commitment
Behind the scenes of Poland’s €100m art deal
Not everyone is happy that the country has bought the prized Czartoryski Collection, which includes Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine
Rare Hebrew books and manuscripts acquired by National Library of Israel
Collection of the late Jack Lunzer to be displayed in new Herzog & de Meuron-designed building
Dig deep to put the finishing touch to Vasari’s spectacular ceiling
Charities and the Italian government need help to buy the final panel of a renowned Venetian painting
Smithsonian expands its folk art holdings with donation of 93 works
The gift comes from the son of the late Margaret Robson, the American patron and advocate for self-taught artists
Paris museum agrees to strict terms to secure Post-Impressionist trove
Nashville-based couple's decision to send their 600-strong collection abroad raises eyebrows at home
National Gallery's acquisition of Pontormo portrait under threat
London institution raised more than £30m to buy it, but fall in pound’s value may be presenting a new obstacle
London’s National Portrait Gallery launches appeal to buy unfinished Duke of Wellington portrait by Thomas Lawrence
Museum has raised £1m but needs a further £300,000 by next March
Not just mummies: British Museum to expand collection with work from modern Egypt
Printed materials, textiles, photographs and items of everyday homeware from the 20th and 21st centuries to be shown alongside museum’s renowned holdings of ancient art