The Art Newspaper

Not a black-and-white issue

Museums are buying African-American art to make their collections more representative, but the market remains lukewarm—for now

Published online: 10 April 2013

Crystal Bridges answers criticism with post-war acquisitions

Museum boosts its holdings of late 20th-century art with works by Warhol and Judd

Published online: 21 March 2013

Met buys a David for $840

Sharp-eyed curators spot that sketch is an artist’s original, rather than a copy

Published online: 05 March 2013

Rijksmuseum buys first abstract painting

The Bart van der Leck work is due to go on show when the museum reopens in April

Published online: 24 January 2013

Louvre Abu Dhabi acquires its first photographic works

Museum adds early daguerreotype of a veiled woman to its collection, along with ancient sculpture and a Gauguin

Published online: 14 September 2012

Met buys Ritz hotel's uncovered masterpiece

This previously unrecorded canvas by Charles Le Brun, the official painter to Louis XIV, was sold at auction in Paris this week to the...

MoMA powers-up video game collection

Dig into the couch cushions to find those spare quarters and get ready to have some video gaming fun at New York’s newest arcade called…...

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Paris Photo 2012: Recent museum acquisitions

We spoke to the head of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the directors of the Fotomuseum Winterthur and Huis Marseille about their approaches to collecting and the stories behind some of their recent purchases.