Acquisitions
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The museum acquired a canvas by the Jamaican artist Simon Benjamin from the stand of New York's Swivel Gallery
The acquisition is the latest in the city’s annual Legacy Purchase programme
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The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ
The Oxford museum took action after the UK government placed an export bar on the work earlier this year
Politicians have slammed the museum for ‘glorifying’ the attack on Frederick McCubbin’s ‘Down on his luck’
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The museum already owns a subsequent, oil-on-canvas work depicting the same subject; both versions of “War Canoes, Alert Bay” will now be displayed together
Curators select works by under-represented groups for Tate, while Art Council Collection purchases focus on early-to mid-career artists
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The gift of 23 works by 17 of the mega gallery's artists, worth over three times the museum's annual acquisitions budget, will go on display next month
Six sponsors cooperated to buy “a masterpiece of Cubism of priceless art historical value” for the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich
Gooding & Company was founded in 2003 by a former Christie’s director
The artists Rob and Nick Carter sold Bronze Oak Grove to the London institution for just the price of the materials they used to make it
Acquisition is part of £100m deal for The Spectator news magazine
Philip B. Lind left the Toronto museum a trove of works by Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Ai Weiwei, William Kentridge, Laurie Simmons and others
Maria Sibylla Merian was accused of exploiting native knowledge of enslaved people without credit for her 1705 book Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
The three museums will share 260 pieces from the collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, plus recent and future acquisitions of works by local artists
The painting, purchased with the help of Christie’s auction house, is a prime example of the Victorian artist’s interest in antiquity
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The museum, which is hosting a major survey of the post-Impressionist artist's work, paid $6.5m for 'The blue roof' or 'Farm at Le Pouldu'
The purchase was made possible after an export license for the Romanesque carving was deferred by the UK authorities last year
The sketchbook will be shown in all three cities to mark what would be the artist's 250th birthday
Founder Claudine Colin says she made the decision to secure the future of the communications company and to promote its development
The monumental works highlight both the might and the fragility of US government institutions
The museum recently purchased the 1840s daguerreotype of Dolley Madison at auction
At today’s prices, few museums are able to purchase paintings by Vincent—the artist who failed to sell his own work
The extensive archive, which includes client correspondence and daily records, will be catalogued over the course of the next few years
The German artist was charged with “publicly insulting the institutions of the Christian churches”
Hasani Sahlehe’s Trying Green, acquired by the Georgia Museum of Art with help from fashion company Stone Island, gives uniforms a pop of colour at The Shed