The Finding of Moses is on display, but it will soon be moved to the newly refurbished Baroque room

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution

The historic documents “highlight the complexities of documenting America’s ‘peculiar institution’”

Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders

From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all

The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an 800-year-old figure of Christ to a rediscovered Delacroix painting

Bequest comes from New York collector Jayne Wrightsman, who amassed an 18th-century library to complement her celebrated French furnishings

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist terrier to vintage prints by Vivian Maier

The brightly coloured painting, depicting the same family scene, has been in private hands for decades, most recently the Chilean Alana Collection

The event will be renamed The Open Art Fair and will launch in March next year

As the Tate Britain show opens, we reveal the inside story of the Tate’s failure to acquire 19 watercolours from a portfolio that turned up in a Glasgow bookshop

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections—from a compendium of African American history to the vast archive of an expelled Surrealist

The Finding of Moses, currently on loan at the London museum, is owned by sofa-billionaire Graham Kirkham

Cabinet of curiosities cannot go to US because of tough ivory regulations

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide—from Lee Krasner's record-setting painting to a Hogarth conversation piece

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation

The massive work, shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale, re-interprets 19th-century wallpaper depicting native Pacific peoples

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Delacroix’s sketchbooks to a pair of Brexit vases

The state has deferred the painting's export licence giving the museum 30 months to find the funds

The Rocket Man will organise a photography exhibition at the London institution with his husband David Furnish

Fig-futures project brings works worth £80,000 to four venues

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Van Dyck’s portrait of a princess bride to a rare painting by a Brazilian Modernist

The US artist’s daughter shares memories behind the sculptures and drawings

The museum aims to show the diversity of the region, where art and cultures have mixed for centuries

She is “relaxed and very stylish” in the portrait

Still Life With Mackerel demonstrates the French 18th-century artist's virtuosity in the genre

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America