The massive work, shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale, re-interprets 19th-century wallpaper depicting native Pacific peoples

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

The state has deferred the painting's export licence giving the museum 30 months to find the funds

The Rocket Man will organise a photography exhibition at the London institution with his husband David Furnish

Fig-futures project brings works worth £80,000 to four venues

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Van Dyck’s portrait of a princess bride to a rare painting by a Brazilian Modernist

The US artist’s daughter shares memories behind the sculptures and drawings

The museum aims to show the diversity of the region, where art and cultures have mixed for centuries

She is “relaxed and very stylish” in the portrait

Still Life With Mackerel demonstrates the French 18th-century artist's virtuosity in the genre

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America

Portrait of Charles I’s daughter was purchased at Christie’s, London in December

The São Paulo collector James Kung Wei Li, whose father was a Chinese ambassador in South America, says the donation is his family’s repayment for American educational largesse

Liebieghaus sculpture museum says the acquisition of Reiner Winkler’s collection is the largest in its history

Moral painting of Venus and Cupid by the German Renaissance master shows the young god of desire being attacked by bees

The museum will show the underrecognised African American artist's work alongside pieces by his contemporaries

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Dalí’s lobster telephone to a bumper gift of indigenous art

Collectors Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner were drawn by the Saskatchewan museum’s dedication to indigenous and aboriginal art from around the globe

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a vintage Hawaiian shirt to an heirloom Chinese art collection

A low-key request from the San Antonio Museum of Art director resulted in a big gift from Lake Taihu near Wuxi

We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018

Klaus Albrecht Schröder says contemporary art acquisitions, criticised by Austrian Court of Audit, will fill a gap in country’s public museums

The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift

Gallerist Claude Lemand and his wife France also set up a fund to support the museum

Structure will be re-installed as part of Therme Group's art and architecture initiative

Contemporary Art Society buys Kehinde Wiley film for The Box in Plymouth, while first Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist prizewinner is also announced

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

In this week’s podcast, hear how the British collector changed his mind and acquired the National Gallery's star attraction

The British auction house brings in former Sotheby’s financial executive Bruno Vinciguerra as part of the deal