Chief executive says latest acquisition is part of his strategy to stay local while going global

The heiress and NFT evangelist is supporting a new acquisition fund at the museum, which has a history of supporting artists working with cutting-edge technology

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The Museum of Modern Art plans to hold a major exhibition of the German artist’s work in the near future

The José Clemente Orozco will go on show at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library in early 2023 as part of a show about the famed Mexican muralist

The collection was amassed by Whitney and Lee Kaplan, who own and operate Arcana: Books on the Arts, beginning in the 1980s

The acquisition includes pieces by Sanford Biggers, Rashid Johnson, Ghada Amer, Derrick Adams and others

Major acquisitions, complementary showcases plus a New Yorker cover coincide with the artist’s retrospective at the New Museum

The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone

The Standard Bearer has been purchased from the Rothschild family via a trust located in the Cook Islands

Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million

The University of British Columbia has acquired a copy of the ‘First Folio’ that helped preserve some of the bard’s most famous plays, including ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Tempest’

‘Portrait of Frederick A. Gale’ is quintessential of Phillips’s paintings of children, who are the subjects of his most beloved works

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Old Master painting was pulled from auction last year—but will the government pay full market price?

Obata was incarcerated at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah during the Second World War; now 35 of his works have been acquired by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts

The 1840 profile portrait is part of a collection of early photographic works by Henry Fitz Jr. that is joining the Kansas City museum’s holdings

The privately owned Honresfield Library, which includes manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, was due to be scattered to global buyers at a Sotheby's auction before a British consortium stepped in

Owned by the Rothschild family, the vibrant painting is on the open market after France was unable to raise the funds to buy the national treasure

Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum

As part of its Legacy Purchase Program, the city purchased two photographs and a wallpaper from the artist’s solo booth with Helena Anrather’s at Art Basel in Miami Beach

The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism

Senseneb shabti is now on permanent display at Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum

The promised gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer includes paintings and sculptures by 20th-century European and American artists including Miró, Picasso and Guston

Photographs, paintings and mixed-media works by living artists from around the world will be added to Tate collection

Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove

Alexandre Calame’s Chalets at Rigi was sold in 1996 at an auction of unclaimed works with proceeds going to benefit victims of the Holocaust

The set of five richly coloured lacquer vessels by artist Chung Haecho will go on show in the New York museum this December

The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection

Gift includes examples by Horace Pippin, Sister Gertrude Morgan and Bill Traylor