The new programme, in partnership with 15 institutions on six continents, will support both preservation and the creation of new work in response to the challenges presented by climate change

The extensive archive, which includes client correspondence and daily records, will be catalogued over the course of the next few years

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

The photo archives of Ebony and Jet magazines will be studied and digitised by Los Angeles’s Getty Research Institute and Washington, DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

The collection was amassed by Whitney and Lee Kaplan, who own and operate Arcana: Books on the Arts, beginning in the 1980s

Anatomy has long intersected with art, and artists have been central to creating a market for such intricate works

Richard Simms, the 93-year-old donor, built up the enviable collection on a dentist’s salary starting in the 1960s

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

Projects will range from exhibitions about the classical world to conservation and excavations and a book about “heritage and mass atrocities”

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Delacroix’s sketchbooks to a pair of Brexit vases

From a Charles White retrospective to raw canvases inspired by the occult and queer sex magic

Purchase is part of a new programme known as the African American Art History Initiative

Indigenous peoples valued luxury objects more as tools of statecraft and for communicating with the divine than for their precious metals