Acquisitions
Acquisitions round-up: a rediscovered 19th-century self-portrait, Van Gogh’s ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’ and a painting by a contemporary Tanzanian artist
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Pérez Art Museum Miami's splashy acquisition at Nada fair
The museum acquired a canvas by the Jamaican artist Simon Benjamin from the stand of New York's Swivel Gallery
Nina Surel’s ceramic symbol of Florida acquired for Miami Beach’s collection at Art Basel
The acquisition is the latest in the city’s annual Legacy Purchase programme
This month's museum acquisitions round-up: Nan Goldin, Artemisia Gentileschi and Picasso
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Toledo Museum of Art uses cryptocurrency to acquire digital art piece
The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ
Rare Fra Angelico crucifixion scene acquired by Ashmolean for £4.48m after tense fundraising campaign
The Oxford museum took action after the UK government placed an export bar on the work earlier this year
Australian museum under fire for acquiring object linked to protesters' attack on well-known painting
Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’
Acquisitions round-up: Pierre Subleyras’s papal commission, Lasansky's horrors of the Holocaust and Archie Moore's sprawling family tree
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Early Emily Carr watercolour acquired by Canada’s Audain Art Museum
The museum already owns a subsequent, oil-on-canvas work depicting the same subject; both versions of “War Canoes, Alert Bay” will now be displayed together
Acquisition funds get first pick at Frieze London
Curators select works by under-represented groups for Tate, while Art Council Collection purchases focus on early-to mid-career artists
Acquisitions round-up: Gauguin’s Le Toit Bleu is among this month’s picks
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Perrotin and its artists have made a €6m donation to the Pompidou—could the move set a precedent?
The gift of 23 works by 17 of the mega gallery's artists, worth over three times the museum's annual acquisitions budget, will go on display next month
Bavaria acquires Picasso’s Woman with a Violin from a private collection
Six sponsors cooperated to buy “a masterpiece of Cubism of priceless art historical value” for the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich
Christie’s to acquire classic car auction house
Gooding & Company was founded in 2003 by a former Christie’s director
Dulwich Picture Gallery makes first acquisition in 12 years—purchasing bronze installation for £176,500
The artists Rob and Nick Carter sold Bronze Oak Grove to the London institution for just the price of the materials they used to make it
Co-owner of right-wing broadcaster GB News buys UK art magazine Apollo
Acquisition is part of £100m deal for The Spectator news magazine
Art Gallery of Ontario receives 37 works from late telecoms executive's estate
Philip B. Lind left the Toronto museum a trove of works by Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Ai Weiwei, William Kentridge, Laurie Simmons and others
Rijksmuseum acquires controversial early botanic book on Suriname
Maria Sibylla Merian was accused of exploiting native knowledge of enslaved people without credit for her 1705 book Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Lacma, Moca and the Hammer Museum jointly acquire significant collection of works by Los Angeles artists
The three museums will share 260 pieces from the collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, plus recent and future acquisitions of works by local artists
London’s National Gallery acquires major work by Lawrence Alma-Tadema for £2m
The painting, purchased with the help of Christie’s auction house, is a prime example of the Victorian artist’s interest in antiquity
Acquisitions round-up: Zandra Rhodes textiles inspired by Uluru, a Cavalcanti head and a portrait by Mary Beale
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Australia's National Gallery acquires country's first Gauguin painting
The museum, which is hosting a major survey of the post-Impressionist artist's work, paid $6.5m for 'The blue roof' or 'Farm at Le Pouldu'
V&A beats Met to acquire medieval ivory sculpture of Christ for £2m
The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year
Rare Caspar David Friedrich sketchbook jointly acquired by Berlin, Dresden and Weimar museums
The sketchbook will be shown in all three cities to mark what would be the artist's 250th birthday
France’s leading arts PR firm Claudine Colin Communication acquired by Finn Partners
Founder Claudine Colin says she made the decision to secure the future of the communications company and to promote its development
US National Gallery acquires four Robert Longo drawings, including one of the 6 January insurrection
The monumental works highlight both the might and the fragility of US government institutions
Earliest known photograph of a US First Lady acquired by National Portrait Gallery in Washington
The museum recently purchased the 1840s daguerreotype of Dolley Madison at auction
The ‘Mona Lisa of Brabant’: Dutch museum raises €6m towards buying a memorable Van Gogh portrait
At today’s prices, few museums are able to purchase paintings by Vincent—the artist who failed to sell his own work
Getty Research Institute acquires photography dealer Peter MacGill's archive
The extensive archive, which includes client correspondence and daily records, will be catalogued over the course of the next few years
George Grosz drawings, once at the heart of a protracted trial, acquired by Berlin’s Akademie der Künste
The German artist was charged with “publicly insulting the institutions of the Christian churches”