From Paris to Chartres, US philanthropy makes its mark

The Los Angeles-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why

The museum will name a film centre after Debra and Leon Black

Gallerist Claude Lemand and his wife France also set up a fund to support the museum

Mortimer Sackler opened a handful of accounts in Switzerland one month before federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma in 2005

Institution recognises the “transformational” final gift of its late trustee Margaret McDermott with a special exhibition and new wall labels for more than 400 works she helped acquire

Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova will continue to fund their contemporary art museum

Eight members of the family are being sued for helping to fuel the opioid epidemic through their pharmaceutical company

The second round of funding will support works themed around incarceration by Xaviera Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas and Titus Kaphar, and a planned installation on the High Line

It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges

In their first direct action, the artist and her activist group PAIN tossed prescription pill bottles labelled OxyContin into the moat surrounding the Temple of Dendur and staged a die-in

Agnes Gund talks to us about how she uses her philanthropy to push for change

"Maybe the Sacklers don’t care, but we should give them the chance to discuss solutions, and if they rebuff, then f*** them"—Jeremy Deller

The activist group founded by the artist Nan Goldin, who revealed her struggles with opioid addiction, says it intends to pressure museums to refuse the philanthropic family’s money

Art Center/South Florida has matched Art Basel donation

Art classes will be key to the school in Zambia, supported by Rashid Johnson and New York-based charitable foundation

Funding will help bring the Creative Time Summit to South Florida, back a show on the Cuban artist José Antonio Aponte, and finance a “wine club for art” subscription collecting service

Anna Somers Cocks on the revelations published in the New Yorker magazine

Beneficiaries of the family’s largesse deflect or ignore questions about the donors’ role in the drugs epidemic sweeping the US

As well as backing arts-focused initiatives, the money will help support organisations working to change government policy

The London-based philanthropist partners with Museums Sheffield to show works by women artists

Decade of renovation ends with marathon opening for expanded gallery

Seminar to be held in New York at the offices of influential philanthropic groups, including the Roy Lichtenstein and Joan Mitchell foundations

Who benefits most from tax breaks on private art museums: patrons or the public?

Solar-powered mobile phone charger is designed to fill gap in African market

Grants of $500m will focus on fairness, president says

Los Angeles institution gained $22.5m last month as endowments grow thanks to sale of artists’ gifts