1950s ceramic, which was at risk of being exported from the UK, purchased in memory of the late writer Annabel Freyberg<br> <br>

The acquisition was made possible by a £7.4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, one of the largest it has ever made

Dutch institution’s holdings have expanded to include works by Wolfgang Tillmans and Cosima von Bonin

From El Anatsui's splashy tapestry, to Cildo Meireles's tower of radios, to Kader Attia's couscous citadel

The Beaubourg gallery also appoints a new curator tasked with discovering young Chinese artists

Louvre and Rijksmuseum acquire portraits of husband and wife with a little help from Christie's<br>

The deal includes the 15th-century Virgin of the Pomegranate and a small panel by the artist

A similar work sits in President Obama’s Oval Office, next to a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln

Major gifts and purchases from around the world that stood above the rest

The work by Claudius Jacquand shows a view of the museum’s home, a former Benedictine convent

Other important works bought by the Chinese taxi driver turned billionaire who snared Modigliani’s record-setting nude

Painting’s 19-year-old subject lined up as “poster boy” for the Holburne Museum’s centenary

The Dutch picture depicts a wealthy burgher’s child dispensing alms to a beggar boy and sold for a record $4.4m at auction last year

French naval officer Louis Vignes took images of Beirut, Lebanon and Syria in 1864

Masterpieces will be exhibited together, alternating between the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre

Robert Crumb’s illustration of Bible chapters to go on show in George Lucas's space in Chicago

The Art Fund teams up with London's Thomas Dane Gallery to help cash-strapped public collections buy new media works