Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"

Epiris private equity group, which owns the auction house, has reportedly approached JP Morgan Chase & Co to advise on the deal

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Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York

“Boating Party” painting will tour France next year to mark Impressionism milestone

The untitled 1961 painting, by Chippewa artist George Morrison, is the first by a Native American member of the New York School movement in the NGA’s collection

According to the museum, the portrait by Giovanni Battista Moroni is “the most significant Italian Renaissance painting” it has acquired in more than half a century

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Rare work by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, valued at £277,990, will go on show at Ulster Museum

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Extensive new research across 31 US museums reveals that works by female artists make up just 11% of acquisitions, while Black American artists of all genders account for only 6.3% of exhibitions

Data from the Burns Halperin Report 2022, published 13 December, shows the limited purchasing power of museums and how much they rely on donors to shape their collections

Valdés's work will join pieces by Amoako Boafo, Sanford Biggers and others on long-term public display

The museum has until March 2023 to stop the work leaving the UK

The museum has put the newly acquired still life, which set an auction record for Moillon’s work in March, on display

The drawing, Grotesque Head of an Old Woman (1489-90), was last displayed at the museum in 2017 and is now available for study

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The programme's launch follows the recent acquisition of a painting by 16th-century Mannerist Lavinia Fontana and a polychrome statue by 17th-century sculptor Luisa Roldán

Decades-old questions resurface as Whitney show dedicated to the artist opens in New York

The purchases come courtesy of the Contemporary Art Society Collections Fund and the Frieze Tate Fund

The Bathers drew protests in 1964 when London's National Gallery bought it for £475,000 and there were fears it would be vandalised

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The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park

Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City

If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum

According to Korean media, the group is close to finalising a contract to spend around $173m to acquire a majority share in the country’s largest auction house

The photo archives of Ebony and Jet magazines will be studied and digitised by Los Angeles’s Getty Research Institute and Washington, DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

The late British artist envisioned that his collection would be acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, which rejected the offer due to provenance concerns

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Representing one of the artist’s least known but most ambitious works, "The Faces of Ruth Asawa" is going on show at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center