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

The Miami-based collectors purchase works by Tuymans, Cattelan, and others

Should Gainsborough’s House have given way to the Tate over a painting in the current Tate exhibition?

The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million

The French billionaire has ditched plans for a contemporary art museum on the Ile Seguin and has instead bought the Palazzo Grassi in Venice

Owner of Christie's bids high and wins big

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

No market for the mediocre, however

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

The work was chosen by Monet himself for his final retrospective in 1924

Though the identity of the Boucicaut Master is unknown, his work is extremely valuable

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

It makes it their most expensive purchase since Leonardo’s “Ginevra de’ Benci”

The Buccleuch Leonardo, the Halifax Titian plus two fine Danish purchases

An exhibition at the British Museum makes Brian Sewell question whether it should be buying twentieth-century material at all

They are also improving their Surrealism holdings

Japanese buyers come away with large proportion of lots

Mark Futter and Richard Schlagman are the new owners of Phaidon Press, the jewel in the crown of Musterlin, which collapsed in October.