Acquisitions

Saatchi to sell Tracey Emin’s bed

Collector hopes for a king-sized return

Pinchuk buys panned Hirst paintings

The paintings were shown in the artist's recent White Cube exhibition

Tatearchive

Tate spreads acquisition net to India and Russia

The museum is committed to diversifying their collection

Tatearchive

Tate to launch two new acquisitions committees

The globalisation of Tate's collection continues

Tatearchive

Tate Acquisitions: Felix Gonzalez-Torres

The artist's work is among 287 purchases made by Tate in the last year

British Museum and Tate expand focus on Middle East

Both have set up acquisition committees concentrating on the region

A look at the ethical and economic problems underlying museum acquisitions

Museums should beware of being used as marketing tools by collectors

Tatearchive

Tate buys Charles Saatchi’s Chapman sculptures

The faux-ethnographic sculptures may be the gallery's most expensive contemporary art purchase

Pinault procures Polke paintings

Billionaire is set to open new Venice museum in 2009

Tatearchive

Tate to buy more work by women

The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm

Portuguese billionaire Berardo's UK shopping spree

José Berardo has bought eight large sculptures from the Cass Sculpture Foundation to display outside Parliament in Lisbon

Albright-Knox sells the old to pay for the new

Sotheby's is auctioning 200 antiquities and pre-Modern works worth $15m from the US museum's collection to raise funds to purchase Modern and contemporary art

Museumsarchive

MoMA creates first permanent curatorial post for Latin American art

The museums owns around 3,000 works of Latin American art

Tatearchive

Tate to launch campaign to buy Turner’s Blue Rigi for £5m–the highest price it has ever paid for a work of art

The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time

Tatearchive

What Tate paid for art 2004-06

A complete list of Tate's acquisitions from the last two years, and what they paid for them

Tatearchive

Tate reveals what it spent in response to Ofili controversy

In an unprecedented move, the gallery has published the cost of all its purchases for the last two years

Tatearchive

Watchdog criticises Tate for Ofili purchase

The Charity Commission is now investigating all acquisitions made from artists while they were serving as trustees

New acquisitions go on view at Tate

Tate Modern's first rehang includes Marlene Dumas

Tatearchive

Official u-turn over Tate's museum status

MLA director apologises as Tate reserves right to decide over national accreditation—without loss of privilege

March 2006archive

Tate is not a museum: Gallery could lose privileges

As it is not accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council due to its deacquisition guidelines

Tatearchive

National Portrait Gallery: more transparent than Tate

Commission sum disclosed for Tom Phillips, unlike the purchase of "The Upper Room"

Tatearchive

Tate considered buying Ofili installation with US collector

The controversy over the institution’s acquisition of a work by one of its trustees rumbles on

Tatearchive

Tate struggles to attract money for acquisitions

A year ago the gallery launched a campaign to raise £100 million. Since then, £50,000 has been pledged from donors

Tatearchive

Another side of the mystery Tate/Ofili deal

How Tate bought The Upper Room remains shrouded in mystery and redactions

Museumsarchive

MoMA acquires $25 million Matisse

The plum blossoms painting is one of the artist's last works

Tatearchive

Tate withholds information in defiance of government guidelines

The gallery will not disclose the purchase price of 13 paintings by trustee Chris Ofili

Venice archive

François Pinault to buy Palazzo Grassi

Sale to Guido Angelo Terruzzi has been abandoned

Museumsarchive

The National Gallery purchases Raphael’s Madonna of the pinks: What we know

The Raphael was bought by the National Gallery for £22 million in February 2004