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MoMA creates first permanent curatorial post for Latin American art

The museums owns around 3,000 works of Latin American art

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Latin American curator for MoMA

Luís Perez-Oramas, who currently serves as adjunct curator of drawings at the museum, is the institution’s first curator of Latin American Art

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MoMA completes merger with PS1

“It is like another department at the museum,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry

MoMA's deaccessioned Picasso on show in France

Bequeathed to the museum by Nelson Rockefeller, the painting was controversially sold in 2013

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MoMA generates $2 billion for New York, says report

Study calculates economic impact of 6.25m visitors over three years since the museum’s reopening in midtown Manhattan

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New competition for Warsaw museum architect

Top practitioners had been excluded due to “Kafka-esque” rules

Georg Baselitz entrusts painting to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark

The director admitted they would not otherwise be able to obtain such a piece

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Not enough women in the Swedish national collection, says director

Lars Nittve has asked the Swedish government for $6.8m to spend on female artists

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Washington's National Gallery wraps up Vuillard catalogue plagiarism suit with $37,500 payment to Annette Leduc and Brooks Beaulieu

However, a complaint lodged against Guy Cogeval, Antoine Salomon and Mathias Chivot was met with a counter-suit arguing that evidence had been fabricated

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MoMA acquires Luc Tuymans paintings

The works focus on American conservatism under the Bush administration

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The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish

Shortly before his death in January, William Rubin handed us his manuscript

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The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish: The details

Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years

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Watts Gallery to sell pre-Raphaelite paintings

Money is needed to ensure the long-term survival of the institution set up by Victorian artist G.F. Watts

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Terry Riley to leave MoMA

The head of Architecture and Design will instead focus on his own firm

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Breaking down the maths of museum earnings: An ominous assessment of exhibition profits

There is a basic problem in suggesting that earned income can keep a museum afloat

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MoMA receives 12 Philip Guston paintings

The works form part of a collection gifted to the museum by real estate developer Edward R. Broida

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MoMA appoints new chief curator of drawings

Cornelia H. Butler, previously at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, scores the role

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MoMA reveals restock of its contemporary galleries in yearly rehang

Around 50 new works are on view, including 16 examples never before seen at the museum

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MoMA acquires $25 million Matisse

The plum blossoms painting is one of the artist's last works

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

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MoMA acquires key Hockney piece

MoMA’s $3 million cup of tea

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New MoMA head of publications

Christopher Hudson follows up Michael Maegraith

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MoMA reshuffles its board

To consecrate the new building, the museum's board has received a massive overhaul

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Future of US museum sponsorship in question after split of tobacco giant Altria

The Whitney and the Brooklyn Museum could lose annual grants from the conglomerate, which gave $300m to charitable organisations over the past five years

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MoMA to expand again, but not for a generation

The property was purchased during the expansion project, and includes all the land west of the museum between 53rd and 54th Streets and Sixth Avenue

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Sami Azar reinstated as director of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art following protests by artists

“This is the only time in Iran that a cultural manager has been supported by artists like this”, he tells The Art Newspaper

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Heinz’s $4 million gift to the Warhol Museum

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

Landmark Vuillard exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Rather than sticking to his traditional oeuvre, the show demonstrates how Vuillard embraced stylistic risk-taking and the avant-garde

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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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Norton Museum’s war loot research grant

A grant will enable them to probe incomplete provenance records