Museum acquisitions
Lacma acquires 60 works with a focus on Black representation
Among the works joining the museum’s collection are paintings by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley as well as a self-portrait by an artist who worked as a preparator at Lacma for decades
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
‘We had to give it our best shot’: inside the Getty’s record-setting Caillebotte acquisition
The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism
Acquisitions round-up: photography trove is Czech Republic's largest art donation in decades
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
How an ancient Egyptian figure—with ties to Tutankhamun and Downton Abbey—found its way into a Sydney museum
Senseneb shabti is now on permanent display at Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum
Saint Louis Art Museum receives 22 major works from American philanthropist
The promised gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer includes paintings and sculptures by 20th-century European and American artists including Miró, Picasso and Guston
Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus
Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove
Acquisitions round-up: 90 new works by 45 artists purchased for the UK Government Art Collection
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Anti-racism posters, Nike trainers and Kim Kardashian's selfies go on show in Victoria and Albert Museum's new gallery of contemporary design
London institution unveils refurbished Design 1900-Now space for its Rapid Response collection of objects that reveal "truths about how we live"
Acquisitions round-up: parts of cut up 16th-century panel reunited after Washington, DC's National Gallery of Art buys missing half
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
A Degas bought by the Van Gogh Museum sparks off an ethical debate: are female nudes OK?
The controversial pastel stars in a show of new acquisitions in Amsterdam
Acquisitions round-up: George Lucas's LA museum acquires monumental mural archive, and Getty purchases Artemisia Gentileschi's Lucretia
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
Acquisitions round-up: two US museums co-purchase portrait of Breonna Taylor—and artist Amy Sherald gives proceeds of sale to charity
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
Acquisitions round-up: trio of paintings by Italian artist nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia bequeathed to the Met
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
Aga Khan Museum acquires massive Lego sculpture of an ancient African metropolis
The conceptual work by the Ghanian-Canadian artist Ekow Nimako addresses the cultural impact of Kumbi Saleh, the centre of the trans-Saharan trade route
Uffizi acquires first 'street art' work—a mash-up of Gilbert & George and a crotch-grabbing Mark Wahlberg
Mixed-media montage by UK artist Endless was donated to the Florence museum
Pérez Art Museum Miami renames endowment fund for Black art to reflect the wider diaspora
The announcement coincides with acquisitions of works by Gordon Parks, Kwame Brathwaite and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
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
A print series of Jacob Lawrence’s earliest narrative cycle has been acquired by the Colby College Museum of Art
The screenprints are an abridged version of the artist’s 41-panel tempera series devoted to the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture
The Met acquires Kent Monkman's grand diptych Mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)
The Cree artist says the work, on view in the museum's Great Hall, reflects on the “colonial version of history” in museum collections
Trove of 'lost' Hokusai drawings acquired by British Museum
103 forgotten works by the renowned Japanese artist resurfaced at a Paris auction after slipping out of sight for more than 70 years
From the archive: Nevada Museum of Art acquires Judy Chicago’s full 'fireworks' archive
The museum aims to rewrite the legacy of the historically male-dominated Land Art movement
While in lockdown, UK's Sainsbury Centre acquires major works by sculptor Elisabeth Frink
Acquisition from the artist's estate heralds a wave of works being dispersed across UK public collections
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from £1m flower pyramids to an enigmatic portrait of a young black woman
From Modernist nudes to present-day politics: British Museum to reveal its contemporary Middle Eastern art collection
Free exhibition at the London museum in October will show around 150 works that have been collected since the early 1990s
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a pot by an African-American slave to the earliest depiction of Highland dress
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an "erotic" depiction of Adam to a masterpiece by a female French painter
UK fails to save painting of 'paramount importance' as Getty export licence is granted
Recently rediscovered 18th-century work by artist Joseph Wright of Derby was bought by the Los Angeles museum in March last year
Nazi loot expert joins Louvre to investigate its wartime acquisitions
Hire of French art historian Emmanuelle Polack suggests a more proactive stance on Nazi-era provenance research at Paris museum
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a rising star of Weimar-era Berlin to a Bohemian Virgin and Child