Donations
Developer’s $325m gift will help create new museum in Seattle
Richard Hedreen is donating a collection valued at $300m and $25m cash to create an art museum at Seattle University
Art Institute of Chicago receives $25m gift for new photography centre
The Bucksbaum family’s donation is the largest the museum’s photography department has ever received
Frankfurt’s Städel shows anniversary gift of works by Honoré Daumier
Collector Hans-Jürgen Hellwig will donate more than 4,000 works by the French artist best-known for his cartoons
Creator of TV drama Law & Order donates more than 200 works to the Metropolitan Museum
Dick Wolf gives works by Van Gogh, Bronzino and Artemisia Gentileschi to the New York museum
Pérez Art Museum Miami receives $25m donation from its namesake benefactor
Jorge Pérez, who gave the museum $35m in 2013, is renewing his support
Collectors Marilyn and Larry Fields make ‘landmark gift’ of 79 works to MCA Chicago
The gifted works are predominantly by woman-identifying and Bipoc artists, including pieces by Huma Bhabha, Arthur Jafa, Adrian Piper, Jennie C. Jones and Cindy Sherman
Metropolitan Museum to return $550,000 in donations from FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange
The institution will return funds donated by the defunct exchange and hedge fund led by Sam Bankman-Fried prior to its untimely collapse
Rijksmuseum unveils Richard Long exhibition thanks to biggest-ever donation
Dutch museum has received €12.5m gift to help support free-of-charge, sculptural exhibitions in the gardens
50 US museums receive grants and art from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
As the late artist's 100th birthday nears, his foundation is undertaking the largest philanthropic project in its history
Dealer who has given 1,677 works to create new French museum does ‘not expect a dime from the donation’
Conditions outlined for gift from Claude and France Lemand for new museum at the Arab World Institute in Paris
London café inspired by Van Gogh seeks funding to expand its programme for vulnerable adults
Restaurant builds on the artist’s legacy by coaching people with mental health issues, disabilities and learning difficulties
Princeton University Art Museum gifted abstract works by Richter, Frankenthaler, De Kooning and others
The donated works, from Princeton alumnus Preston Haskell, were accompanied by an unspecified sum to support ongoing construction of the museum’s new building, designed by Adjaye Associates
Philip Guston’s daughter donates 220 of his works and $10m to the Metropolitan Museum
Some of the works from the collection, which will go on view next year, are featured in the controversial traveling retrospective devoted to Guston
Metropolitan Museum receives $10m donation for ongoing performance art initiative
The philanthropist Adrienne Arsht is a longtime supporter of the museum and performing arts programmes nationwide
Forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum receives $1m donation
The donation is the museum’s first corporate gift, from Zurich-based insurance giant Swiss Re
Trove of archival Warhol documents and catalogue raisonné donated to artist’s foundation
As the art world—and culture in general—delves deeper into Warhol’s life and work, this donation from the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation will guide scholars, researchers and fans through the artist’s oeuvre
K-Pop star RM funds restoration of traditional Korean bridal gown in collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art—and reveals further gifts
The BTS musician and avid collector has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the preservation and promotion of Korean cultural heritage
Daskalopoulos’s great giveaway: Greek collector donates 350 works to Tate, Guggenheim, MCA Chicago and EMST in Athens
‘Everybody is happy and nobody is jealous,” the entrepreneur says
Getty Research Institute acquires booksellers' collection of thousands of catalogues and materials on Black artists
The collection was amassed by Whitney and Lee Kaplan, who own and operate Arcana: Books on the Arts, beginning in the 1980s
Tainted gifts: as British Museum and the Met disavow the Sackler name, museums rethink donation deals
Institutions are increasingly including “morals clauses” in gift agreements to protect themselves if donors fall from grace
Milan’s Museo del Novecento could lose 600 works in legal battle with heir
Mario Bertolini’s vast collection of Modern art, amassed over his lifetime and donated to the museum in 2014, is at the centre of a claim seeking to invalidate the acquisition
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s studio building donated to Whitney Museum
The building, just a few blocks from the museum, will be renovated and used as a permanent home for the Whitney’s Independent Study Program
Boston College museum receives $25m in art and grants from philanthropist Peter Lynch
The McMullen Museum of Art is gaining works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, and others
Robert Frank’s seminal series 'The Americans' to be reissued after $1m grant
Foundation set up by Frank in memory of his late daughter has donated funds to New York publisher Aperture to create a contemporary edition of "tragically relevant" photobook
'Most important gift in recent decades': trove of works by Kandinsky, Otto Dix and Max Ernst donated to Städel Museum in Frankfurt
The bequest from the estate of the German photographer Ulrike Crespo includes 90 works and will go on show in November.
Korean museums to receive 23,000 works from Samsung estate in $11bn tax settlement
Lee Kun-hee, the Samsung Electronics chairman who died in October, leaves collection worth $2.2bn, including works by Monet, Dali and Chagall
A gift of blue-chip Modern art comes to the Seattle Art Museum
The Friday Foundation, run by the heirs of collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang, has donated 19 works by artists including Bacon, Rothko, Krasner, Pollock, Frankenthaler, Kline and de Kooning
Thanks to a £3m gift, the National Trust could finally uncover a secret portrait of Mary Queen of Scots
Conservation boost from a US charity comes after the heritage organisation faced a £200m revenue collapse due to the pandemic
Trove of Surrealist publications and paintings donated to Dutch museum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's gift from collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong “opens up new horizons on surrealist activities”, says expert
Startup consultant and collector George Wells gives Morehouse College a million-dollar art collection
The historically Black men’s college in Atlanta, Georgia will receive works by Mickalene Thomas, Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald, McArthur Binion, and Ivy Haldeman