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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.
Rubells donate $1 million worth of art to Tampa Museum
The institution has received 91 paintings by the Outsider artist Purvis Young
Heinz’s $4 million gift to the Warhol Museum
The gift increases the museum’s endowment to $7.1 million
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
Rockefeller gives $100 million to MoMA
The money will go to the museum after his death, with yearly donations scheduled until that time
Tate refused previous offer from Saatchi
Serota said no to 100 works in 1998, but is still keen to buy “major” pieces
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
A donation from the Kreitman Foundation has supported this month’s opening of a huge but little known archive of artists’ letters, notebooks, photos and ephemera
The trifles and hidden lives of artists
Senator investigates MoMA
The Federal Finance Committee aims to stop financial abuses at US museums
Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
Charles Saatchi announces gift of 100 works of art, worth £500,000, to the Arts Council Collection
Is the gift an act of virtuous self-regard?
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
Bringing British art out of the shadows
Sir Edwin Manton, an American-based insurance executive, has donated £7 million ($11.2 million)
Major gift of works by Calder to Chicago’s contemporary museum
This ups the museums holdings of the artist to 22
William S. Paley’s remarkable collection revealed in exhibition at MoMA
Bequest of modern paintings and sculpture to tour American cities
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