Museum acquisitions
Climate protest designs, an authentic Banksy fake and radical collection updates: the year in acquisitions
Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019
Permanent a-peel: $120,000 banana will enter museum collection
Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution
London's National Gallery launches public campaign to fund last £2m to buy Orazio Gentileschi masterpiece
The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
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
The Art Newspaper investigates Tate's documents on the Reynolds' Omai bid
The files included a letter from Serota himself
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
Extinction Rebellion designs go on show at Victoria and Albert Museum
Flags, pamphlets and logos by the climate activist organisation were acquired for museum's Rapid Response Collecting gallery
Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos aids Athens museum acquisitions
National Museum of Contemporary Art spends €50,000 on new works from Frieze
Tate Acquisitions: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
The artist's work is among 287 purchases made by Tate in the last year
Three of the best for Tate in this year's Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund acquisitions
Two new artists and an old favourite make the cut
The story behind Matisse's Backs: Tate's bargain buy
The gallery paid £11,000 for the four bronze sculptures in 1957 - Christie's just sold one for $48.8m
Art Institute of Chicago and London’s V&A keep pace with digital creativity in their collecting and curation
Techno-design is go for museum collections
Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund adds to the Tate’s collection
Works by Lorna Simpson, Július Koller, and Jimmie Durham make up the selections this year
Tate looks to young international artists with £120,000 acquisition fund
The works selected reflect Tate's increasingly global outlook and support of young artists
V&A sets sights on rare hunting horn
£3.3m required for export-delayed object
'Spanish Forger' miniatures bought by V&A
Scholars no nearer to finding the faker’s identity
Tate’s Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund picks bring new artists to the gallery
The supercharged shopping trip was worth £125,000 this year
Anthony d’Offay deal with Tate and Scotland sets tax precedent for UK philanthropy
For his partial donation of £125m worth of art, the dealer received £26.5m—the price he originally paid for the collection—tax free
David Hockney donates his largest painting to Tate
Bigger Trees near Warter is 12m long and 4.5m high, and made up of 50 separate canvases
Tate buys Charles Saatchi’s Chapman sculptures
The faux-ethnographic sculptures may be the gallery's most expensive contemporary art purchase
V&A purchases Charles Sargeant Jagger's 'School for Scandal'
The important Art Deco sculpture was purchased last year
Tate to buy more work by women
The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
Tate launches appeal to buy Turner's Blue Rigi
The Blue Rigi has been sold to an overseas collector, and after last year's loss of the Dark Rigi the pressure is on
Tate to launch campaign to buy Turner’s Blue Rigi for £5m–the highest price it has ever paid for a work of art
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time
Salvador Dalí tea set for V&A
Will be shown in Surreal Things exhibition next year
What Tate bought at Frieze 2006
The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection
Tate is not a museum: Gallery could lose privileges
As it is not accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council due to its deacquisition guidelines
Outside curators buy for Tate at Frieze
This year's haul included video, installations, and photos but no paintings