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

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

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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

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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

Tatearchive

Tate refused previous offer from Saatchi

Serota said no to 100 works in 1998, but is still keen to buy “major” pieces

Miamiarchive

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?

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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

Leonardo reunited in Cambridge

The Fitzwilliam acquires the missing half of its 'A rider on a rearing horse'

Christie’s is bought out by the French

François Pinault’s offer is a massive twenty-six times earnings

Museumsarchive

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

Museumsarchive

Edinburgh acquires Raphael drawing

It is now the National Gallery's second drawing by Raphael