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How to look after your latest acquisition in China

A guide for collectors with questions about insurance, conservation, transport and China’s tax system

Published online: 22 May 2013

Qatar reportedly buys Picasso’s Child with a Dove

The oil rich Gulf state has snapped up the UK’s most famous work by Modern master, according to French news

Published online: 10 April 2013

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

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.