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

The gifts and acquisitions occurred during the museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend

The painting, which was estimated at between $4m and $6m when it was offered at Christie’s in 2022, is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Plus, Morel cup enters the Musée d'Orsay and non-profit Joy of Giving Something gifts photography collection to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

It is the first US-museum acquisition of a work by the talented pupil of Jacques-Louis David