Acquisitions
Acquisitions round-up: Louvre acquires Jean-Siméon Chardin's Basket of Wild Strawberries after fundraising campaign
Plus, Morel cup enters the Musée d'Orsay and non-profit Joy of Giving Something gifts photography collection to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Getty Museum acquires portrait by Neo-Classical painter Sophie Frémiet
It is the first US-museum acquisition of a work by the talented pupil of Jacques-Louis David
'La Psyché': London's National Gallery acquires its first painting by the Impressionist Eva Gonzalès
Acquisition a month before museum's 200th anniversary makes Gonzalès just the 20th woman artist to be represented in the collection
Gavin Brown donates gallery archive to Bard College
Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies will receive artist files, catalogues and more from the more than 25 years the dealer operated Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Swiss dealer Eberhard Kornfeld bequeathed Kirchner, Giacometti works to Bern Kunstmuseum
Kornfeld died last year, shortly before turning 100
Acquisitions round-up: Cleveland museum buys a sumptuous 16th-century wooden carving, once part of an altarpiece
Plus, the UK’s first permanent public sculpture by a Black female artist goes to Warwick University, and National Gallery of Art lands a collection of 20 shadow boxes by Joseph Cornell
Laurene Powell Jobs's non-profit buys San Francisco Art Institute and its $50m Diego Rivera mural
After years of financial problems, the troubled institution will enter its next chapter with help from the Apple dynasty
Santa Monica Art Bank and California African American Museum make opening-day acquisitions at Frieze Los Angeles
Sculpture by Mustafa Ali Clayton and textile Gary Tyler enter collections
Acquisitions round-up: the Städel Museum in Frankfurt shows off its Honoré Daumier bequest
Plus, Olmec statuette becomes Kimbell Art Museum’s “most significant work of ancient American art” and Madrid’s Museo del Romanticismo buys an early Goya
Rothschild foundation acquires lost Guercino masterpiece
The portrait of Moses surfaced in Paris in 2022 and will form part of a loan exhibition at Waddesdon Manor in March
Baltimore Museum of Art acquires its first piece of performance art
The performance by Jefferson Pinder is one of more than 100 new acquisitions recently announced by the institution
Acquisitions round-up: stained glass window by Tiffany’s greatest female designer finds new home at the Met
Plus, last Donatello in private hands is sold to Bargello and Courtauld’s Claudette Johnson purchase helps demarginalise Black women
UK museums acquire works by Damien Hirst and Claude Monet under tax relief schemes
More than 40 items worth over £52m allocated to galleries nationwide including a £10.5m miniature Renaissance bronze
Kimbell Art Museum acquires important cultural touchstone of Olmec art
The jade statuette of an Olmec ruler holding a baby were-jaguar will be exhibited as the centrepiece of the Texas museum's ancient American collection
Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach
The purchase is part of the city’s annual programme to acquire a work from Art Basel in Miami Beach
Design Miami’s digital future looms large after acquisition by Basic.Space
The online platform's involvement signals a push to attract younger collectors to the fair
Works from Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s collection will go on view at the Brooklyn Museum
The couple will also donate select (as yet unspecified) pieces from their personal holdings to the museum
The Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum acquired more than 80 works over the past year
Ranging from painting to installation and beyond, the latest additions to the museum's holdings include contemporary voices as well as legends like Nam June Paik and Robert Irwin
Brooklyn Museum reveals details of more than 300 acquisitions made over the past year
Additions to the museum’s collection span contemporary, decorative and Modern art, as well as Korean calligraphy and works on paper by John Singer Sargent’s sister Emily
Louvre wants to acquire Chardin’s famed strawberries painting—but needs €1.3m
LVMH group donates €16m towards work sold for €24m at auction
Cimabue ‘kitchen’ painting placed under export ban ends up at the Louvre
The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted
Tate, Fitzwilliam and Arts Council scoop up works at Frieze
Plus, the winners of prominent young and emerging artist prizes have been revealed
Acquisitions round-up: Paula Rego abortion etchings acquired by New York's MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars
Canadian Museum of History acquires artist’s memorial to victims of the country’s residential schools
Stanley C. Hunt’s memorial monument features carvings of 130 faces, representing Indigenous children whose remains were found in unmarked graves near a school site
Getty acquires artist Maren Hassinger’s archive
The septuagenarian artist, best known for her large-scale wire rope installations, has experienced a resurgence of attention from institutions and curators in recent years
Tibetan Buddhist shrine with more than 200 artefacts donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
The shrine comes from Alice S. Kandell, who amassed one of the most significant private collections of Tibetan Buddhist art in North America
SFMoMA acquires architectural capsule from Tokyo's famed Metabolist tower
Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was demolished last year, but 23 of its distinctive pods were preserved
186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s 100th birthday
Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art acquires more than 200 works by experimental film-maker Ken Jacobs
The museum has also restored Jacobs’s first film, “Orchard Street” (1955), which will be displayed in a gallery in November
Acquisitions round-up: rediscovered miniature by female Old Master added to US National Gallery of Art's collection
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide