Donations
Forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum receives $1m donation
The donation is the museum’s first corporate gift, from Zurich-based insurance giant Swiss Re
Trove of archival Warhol documents and catalogue raisonné donated to artist’s foundation
As the art world—and culture in general—delves deeper into Warhol’s life and work, this donation from the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation will guide scholars, researchers and fans through the artist’s oeuvre
K-Pop star RM funds restoration of traditional Korean bridal gown in collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art—and reveals further gifts
The BTS musician and avid collector has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the preservation and promotion of Korean cultural heritage
Daskalopoulos’s great giveaway: Greek collector donates 350 works to Tate, Guggenheim, MCA Chicago and EMST in Athens
‘Everybody is happy and nobody is jealous,” the entrepreneur says
Getty Research Institute acquires booksellers' collection of thousands of catalogues and materials on Black artists
The collection was amassed by Whitney and Lee Kaplan, who own and operate Arcana: Books on the Arts, beginning in the 1980s
Tainted gifts: as British Museum and the Met disavow the Sackler name, museums rethink donation deals
Institutions are increasingly including “morals clauses” in gift agreements to protect themselves if donors fall from grace
Milan’s Museo del Novecento could lose 600 works in legal battle with heir
Mario Bertolini’s vast collection of Modern art, amassed over his lifetime and donated to the museum in 2014, is at the centre of a claim seeking to invalidate the acquisition
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s studio building donated to Whitney Museum
The building, just a few blocks from the museum, will be renovated and used as a permanent home for the Whitney’s Independent Study Program
Boston College museum receives $25m in art and grants from philanthropist Peter Lynch
The McMullen Museum of Art is gaining works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, and others
Robert Frank’s seminal series 'The Americans' to be reissued after $1m grant
Foundation set up by Frank in memory of his late daughter has donated funds to New York publisher Aperture to create a contemporary edition of "tragically relevant" photobook
'Most important gift in recent decades': trove of works by Kandinsky, Otto Dix and Max Ernst donated to Städel Museum in Frankfurt
The bequest from the estate of the German photographer Ulrike Crespo includes 90 works and will go on show in November.
Korean museums to receive 23,000 works from Samsung estate in $11bn tax settlement
Lee Kun-hee, the Samsung Electronics chairman who died in October, leaves collection worth $2.2bn, including works by Monet, Dali and Chagall
A gift of blue-chip Modern art comes to the Seattle Art Museum
The Friday Foundation, run by the heirs of collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang, has donated 19 works by artists including Bacon, Rothko, Krasner, Pollock, Frankenthaler, Kline and de Kooning
Thanks to a £3m gift, the National Trust could finally uncover a secret portrait of Mary Queen of Scots
Conservation boost from a US charity comes after the heritage organisation faced a £200m revenue collapse due to the pandemic
Trove of Surrealist publications and paintings donated to Dutch museum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's gift from collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong “opens up new horizons on surrealist activities”, says expert
Startup consultant and collector George Wells gives Morehouse College a million-dollar art collection
The historically Black men’s college in Atlanta, Georgia will receive works by Mickalene Thomas, Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald, McArthur Binion, and Ivy Haldeman
This Hans Memling painting failed to sell at Christie's—now its owner has given it back to Bruges where it was painted over 500 years ago
The work was offered for sale at £1.5m to £2.5m in 2019 but US collector Bill Middendorf has decided to give it to the Belgian city
How a vast Käthe Kollwitz collection ended up at the Getty
Richard Simms, the 93-year-old donor, built up the enviable collection on a dentist’s salary starting in the 1960s
Yoruba prince donates more than 1,000 works of art to establish university museum in Nigeria
Yemisi Shyllon hopes other Nigerian collectors will follow his example and help found teaching museums that promote art education
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
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
Nan Goldin’s activist group storms the Musée du Louvre
Pain protestors demand that museum officials rename 12 rooms named after the Sackler family
The Met says it will stop accepting gifts from Sacklers associated with Purdue Pharma
The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family
UniCredit to sell off one of world's largest corporate art collections
The Italian bank, which just announced €1.4bn profit in first quarter of 2019, will offload some of the 60,000 works of art in order to fund social initiatives
Director of Pinault Collection proposes controversial 90% tax breaks for Notre Dame donors
But Pinault family says it is not seeking tax relief for its €100m donation towards the reconstruction effort
Photography gallery at Victoria and Albert Museum renamed after Elton John following 'significant' donation
The Rocket Man will organise a photography exhibition at the London institution with his husband David Furnish
Dallas school given largest collection of Swiss art outside of Switzerland
The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift
Major coup for Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe as it receives one of its biggest ever donations of works
Gallerist Claude Lemand and his wife France also set up a fund to support the museum
Vienna’s Albertina museum receives €90m donation of 1,323 works from Essl Collection
Works will be shown in a new home for contemporary art opening next year
Saudi Arabian foundation donates €9m to Berlin Museum of Islamic Art
Funds donated by Alwaleed Philanthropies will support exhibitions and education, including “Multaka” project to train refugees as museum guides
Gallerist Sean Kelly donates his James Joyce collection to The Morgan Library and Museum in New York
The museum will stage a comprehensive exhibition in 2022