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Eclectic collector’s show raises questions at Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Visitors are confused and staff suggest that museum is neglecting its artistic mission

US aluminium giant sends Warhol to Russia

The Alcoa Corporation is marking its entry into Russia by funding the tour of a Warhol Museum show

Tate: Conspiracy or cock-up over Ofili’s Upper Room?

Tate board member Chris Ofili calls on artists to donate work to the Tate whilst selling his own work to the Gallery.

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Rubells donate $1 million worth of art to Tampa Museum

The institution has received 91 paintings by the Outsider artist Purvis Young

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Heinz’s $4 million gift to the Warhol Museum

The gift increases the museum’s endowment to $7.1 million

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MoMA committee to vote on major drawings collection gifted by Judith Rothschild Foundation

The foundation has offered the museum a collection of more than 2,500 drawings by 400 international artists

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Rockefeller gives $100 million to MoMA

The money will go to the museum after his death, with yearly donations scheduled until that time

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Tate refused previous offer from Saatchi

Serota said no to 100 works in 1998, but is still keen to buy “major” pieces

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Warhol Foundation gives $10 million to artists

The money is being given to Creative Capital, a nonprofit picking up the slack in arts funding

Acquisitions negotiations at Tate and The Armouries: You win some, you lose some

A mysterious donor gives the Tate £12.5 million to buy Reynolds’ Omai but the Armouries fail to get Lottery support for two armours

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Senator investigates MoMA

The Federal Finance Committee aims to stop financial abuses at US museums

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Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's

The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection

Janet de Botton gives Tate free reign with her collection

Inspired by the Tate’s plans for Bankside, she gave the museum one third of her massive collection of modern art

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: The frog and the swallow reunited

First ever show bringing together Mexico’s twin stars at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Switzerland

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Bringing British art out of the shadows

Sir Edwin Manton, an American-based insurance executive, has donated £7 million ($11.2 million)

William S. Paley’s remarkable collection revealed in exhibition at MoMA

Bequest of modern paintings and sculpture to tour American cities

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A flood of pictures for MoMA as collector William S. Paley dies

The bequest, one of the largest in the museum's history, includes three of Gertrude Stein’s Picassos