The jade statuette of an Olmec ruler holding a baby were-jaguar will be exhibited as the centrepiece of the Texas museum's ancient American collection

The purchase is part of the city’s annual programme to acquire a work from Art Basel in Miami Beach

The online platform's involvement signals a push to attract younger collectors to the fair

The couple will also donate select (as yet unspecified) pieces from their personal holdings to the museum

Ranging from painting to installation and beyond, the latest additions to the museum's holdings include contemporary voices as well as legends like Nam June Paik and Robert Irwin

Additions to the museum’s collection span contemporary, decorative and Modern art, as well as Korean calligraphy and works on paper by John Singer Sargent’s sister Emily

LVMH group donates €16m towards work sold for €24m at auction

The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted

Plus, the winners of prominent young and emerging artist prizes have been revealed

Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars

Stanley C. Hunt’s memorial monument features carvings of 130 faces, representing Indigenous children whose remains were found in unmarked graves near a school site

The septuagenarian artist, best known for her large-scale wire rope installations, has experienced a resurgence of attention from institutions and curators in recent years

The shrine comes from Alice S. Kandell, who amassed one of the most significant private collections of Tibetan Buddhist art in North America

Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was demolished last year, but 23 of its distinctive pods were preserved

Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The museum has also restored Jacobs’s first film, “Orchard Street” (1955), which will be displayed in a gallery in November

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The museum spent $100,000 to bolster its collection thanks to funding from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation

Sargent’s painting of Amy Phipps Guest, made at the peak of his success as a society portraitist, was gifted to the West Palm Beach museum by her grandson and his family

The institutions that won the fair's Northern Trust Purchase Prize selected artwork by artists Mohau Modisakeng, Wole Lagunju and Claudia Peña Salinas for their permanent collections

Disputed attribution claims rarely play out in court, but two recent legal cases could provide valuable lessons for acquisitions teams at cultural institutions across the UK

The "icon of British portraiture" will be shown alternately between London and Los Angeles

The export deferral on the famed painting has been extended to 10 June, giving London’s National Portrait Gallery a few more weeks to work out a deal, possibly with the Getty

The painting was one of four Carr works featured in the first Canadian presentation at the Venice Biennale, in 1952

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Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist

As the painting’s export licence is due to expire, the Californian museum might step in to help keep it in the UK

The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton

The large, woven basket by the the Mono Lake Paiute artist Wutoni won first prize at a 1929 competition and, in 2005, set an auction record for a Native American basket

The acquisition, the first of its kind by a major French public museum, includes works by Jonas Lund, Robness, Agnieszka Kurant and Sarah Meyohas