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

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

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