Acquisitions
Charity begins at home: National Gallery of Art acquires Ochtervelt genre painting
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
Getty seeks to preserve memory of Palmyra's Roman ruins through acquisition of rare photography collection
French naval officer Louis Vignes took images of Beirut, Lebanon and Syria in 1864
France and The Netherlands to share ownership of Rembrandt portraits
Masterpieces will be exhibited together, alternating between the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre
Video art coming to a UK museum near you
The Art Fund teams up with London's Thomas Dane Gallery to help cash-strapped public collections buy new media works
Has the Louvre pulled out of €160m Rembrandt deal?
Now that Dutch government has pledged funds, joint acquisition with French museum seems unlikely
Scottish museum buys 17th-century Le Marchand ivories
Huguenot carver came to Edinburgh after facing persecution in his native France
British Museum bolsters its collection with first Caribbean art commission
Zak Ové’s sculptures will be unveiled in the Great Court this week, before going on display in the African galleries
Australian gambling millionaire acquires acclaimed oil installation
Richard Wilson’s 20:50 work will leave the Saatchi Gallery in London, and head for David Walsh’s museum in Tasmania—but may go on a world tour first
US museums accept gifts with collectors’ strings attached
Institutions agree to donors’ restrictions when the prize is worth it
Huyghe’s aquarium set to swim from coast to coast
Zoodram 5 (Recollection) is being jointly acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Broad ‘intensifies’ its collection ahead of Los Angeles museum opening
Foundation acquires political work by Longo and Murakami’s biggest painting
Lacma buys ‘casta’ painting that was found under a sofa
The 18th-century work is an early example of racial profiling
Pinchuk buys panned Hirst paintings
The paintings were shown in the artist's recent White Cube exhibition
Tate spreads acquisition net to India and Russia
The museum is committed to diversifying their collection
Tate to launch two new acquisitions committees
The globalisation of Tate's collection continues
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
Interview with Nicholas Penny on his plans for the National Gallery: “It is a real shame that we do not have more American paintings”
In his first interview since taking over, the new director outlines his priorities
A look at the ethical and economic problems underlying museum acquisitions
Museums should beware of being used as marketing tools by collectors
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
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