Acquisitions
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
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