$450.3m Leonardo da Vinci painting was due to be unveiled at museum in two weeks but its display has now been delayed

Italian government claims licence application did not state portrait was of Prince Camillo Borghese

Institution recognises the “transformational” final gift of its late trustee Margaret McDermott with a special exhibition and new wall labels for more than 400 works she helped acquire

Piece by Italian Baroque painter was sold in Paris last year for €2.4m

The painting will be lent to the Louvre in Paris next year for an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of artist's death

The works, which came from Iturbide's own collection, include gifts from the Mexican artist

The organisation wants to get its collection "out into the world", the director says

The Descent from the Cross is the museum's first acquisition backed by the Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund, a hefty $17m endowment

The V&A acquired a fragment of London's Robin Hood Gardens before it was demolished

The defunct museum has given the last of its 20,000 works to 22 institutions in Washington, DC

We exclusively reveal the details of the plans for a “historic” collaboration

Ten works are added to the permanent collection, including a striking slavery themed installation by Betye Saar and the museum's first sculpture by Ruth Asawa

Chris Ofili's work—donated by hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen—was once at the centre of a New York culture war

The work will first goes on loan in Massachusetts and possibly elsewhere

Gift includes Polke, Warhol, Twombly, Emin, Tillmans

Putting aside museum ethics, Martin Gammon looks at the financial viability of museums deaccessioning their collection as a quick fix for financial trouble

Sixty works donated by European and Arab artists will stay at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris until a permanent home is built

Initial research into provenance 'gave no concrete cause for suspicion that these works were looted', Berlin State Museums says

Artist donated his design for Austin to the Blanton Museum in 2015, the year he died

Trove of photographs, films, manuscripts and letters date back to the 1920s

James Hyman hopes the gift will improve the status of British photography both at home and abroad

Acquisition heralds triptych of London shows dedicated to Dean

State stepped in and purchased major pieces by important female sculptor at auction

The 90 works given to MoMA take the museum “in a new direction”, says director Glenn Lowry

We look back at some of most important purchases and donations that entered public collections this year

Francis Kéré’s structure in London will head to Kuala Lumpur next year in deal struck with Ilham Gallery

It's the first work acquired as part of the fair's new acquisition fund for the Miami museum

The collection of more than 20,000 works by 1,000 artists from throughout the former USSR was secretly amassed over decades by the US economist Norton Dodge

Museum of Fine Arts confirms acquisition to bring together Modern masterpieces originally commissioned for billionaire's Manhattan penthouse