Museum acquisitions
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
Christmas comes early: London's National Gallery raises enough money to buy Gentileschi masterpiece
The Finding of Moses is on display, but it will soon be moved to the newly refurbished Baroque room
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