Acquisitions
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
MoMA creates first permanent curatorial post for Latin American art
The museums owns around 3,000 works of Latin American art
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
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
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
Watchdog criticises Tate for Ofili purchase
The Charity Commission is now investigating all acquisitions made from artists while they were serving as trustees
François Pinault injects cash into French auction house
Piasa gets revamp after falling out of top six
New acquisitions go on view at Tate
Tate Modern's first rehang includes Marlene Dumas
Official u-turn over Tate's museum status
MLA director apologises as Tate reserves right to decide over national accreditation—without loss of privilege
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
National Portrait Gallery: more transparent than Tate
Commission sum disclosed for Tom Phillips, unlike the purchase of "The Upper Room"
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
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
Another side of the mystery Tate/Ofili deal
How Tate bought The Upper Room remains shrouded in mystery and redactions
MoMA acquires $25 million Matisse
The plum blossoms painting is one of the artist's last works
Tate withholds information in defiance of government guidelines
The gallery will not disclose the purchase price of 13 paintings by trustee Chris Ofili
François Pinault to buy Palazzo Grassi
Sale to Guido Angelo Terruzzi has been abandoned
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
Tate refused previous offer from Saatchi
Serota said no to 100 works in 1998, but is still keen to buy “major” pieces
Rubell Family Collection: Recent Acquisitions
The Miami-based collectors purchase works by Tuymans, Cattelan, and others
Gainsborough's House director Hugh Belsey on competing with Tate: Goliath wins
Should Gainsborough’s House have given way to the Tate over a painting in the current Tate exhibition?
National Gallery and Getty fight over Raphael
The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million
Pinault pulls the plug on planned Paris museum
The French billionaire has ditched plans for a contemporary art museum on the Ile Seguin and has instead bought the Palazzo Grassi in Venice
Pinault copies Arnault and buys French auctioneers Etude Tajan
Owner of Christie's bids high and wins big
Leonardo reunited in Cambridge
The Fitzwilliam acquires the missing half of its 'A rider on a rearing horse'
Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern auction report: Record price for Modigliani
No market for the mediocre, however
Christie’s is bought out by the French
François Pinault’s offer is a massive twenty-six times earnings
Kimbell buys MoMA Monet
The work was chosen by Monet himself for his final retrospective in 1924
The Getty acquires “The fates of illustrious men and women” by the Boucicaut Master
Though the identity of the Boucicaut Master is unknown, his work is extremely valuable
Edinburgh acquires Raphael drawing
It is now the National Gallery's second drawing by Raphael