Acquisitions
Acquisitions round-up: the first painting by Swiss avant-garde artist Ferdinand Hodler to head to London's National Gallery
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
US National Gallery of Art gifted $10m to fund acquisitions of works by women
The programme's launch follows the recent acquisition of a painting by 16th-century Mannerist Lavinia Fontana and a polychrome statue by 17th-century sculptor Luisa Roldán
Edward Hopper’s treasure trove of artworks was left to the Whitney—so why did some of it end up in the hands of a local reverend?
Decades-old questions resurface as Whitney show dedicated to the artist opens in New York
Frieze London acquisitions: Norwich Castle bags Ibrahim Mahama photo series and Tate buys works by seven international artists
The purchases come courtesy of the Contemporary Art Society Collections Fund and the Frieze Tate Fund
Cézanne's famous nude scene was once a British scandal—now it's the star of Tate's blockbuster exhibition
The Bathers drew protests in 1964 when London's National Gallery bought it for £475,000 and there were fears it would be vandalised
Acquisitions round-up: National Museum of Women in the Arts receives bequest of more than 60 works
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Lucas Museum delays opening until 2025, reveals acquisitions including Ernie Barnes and John Singer Sargent works
The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park
Brazil turns 200—and its National Museum rises from the ashes
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
The greatest portrait by one of the finest British artists: London's National Portrait Gallery aims to raise £50m to buy Reynolds's Omai
If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum
South Korean retail giant Shinsegae poised to take control of Seoul Auction
According to Korean media, the group is close to finalising a contract to spend around $173m to acquire a majority share in the country’s largest auction house
Getty institute and Smithsonian museum will share an unparalleled photo archive of Black American life
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires rejected Howard Hodgkin collection of Indian art
The late British artist envisioned that his collection would be acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, which rejected the offer due to provenance concerns
Acquisitions round-up: 900 Japanese cloisonné enamels—including rare commissions for the imperial family—head to Massachusetts museum
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Ruth Asawa made hundreds of masks of her San Francisco community—now a local museum is putting them on permanent display
Representing one of the artist’s least known but most ambitious works, "The Faces of Ruth Asawa" is going on show at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center
Bonhams expands again with purchase of leading French auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr
Chief executive says latest acquisition is part of his strategy to stay local while going global
Paris Hilton helps Lacma launch fund to acquire digital art by women
The heiress and NFT evangelist is supporting a new acquisition fund at the museum, which has a history of supporting artists working with cutting-edge technology
Acquisitions round-up: Gordon Parks photographs head to the 'mecca of Black education' Howard University in Washington, DC
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
MoMA and the Neue Galerie jointly acquire a Käthe Kollwitz self-portrait
The Museum of Modern Art plans to hold a major exhibition of the German artist’s work in the near future
New York’s Hispanic Society reveals ten new acquisitions, including portrait of Goya and set of Orozco drawings
The José Clemente Orozco will go on show at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library in early 2023 as part of a show about the famed Mexican muralist
Getty Research Institute acquires booksellers' collection of thousands of catalogues and materials on Black artists
The collection was amassed by Whitney and Lee Kaplan, who own and operate Arcana: Books on the Arts, beginning in the 1980s
After $110m Picasso sale, casino company MGM acquires on-trend contemporary works to diversify collection
The acquisition includes pieces by Sanford Biggers, Rashid Johnson, Ghada Amer, Derrick Adams and others
US institutions celebrate Faith Ringgold
Major acquisitions, complementary showcases plus a New Yorker cover coincide with the artist’s retrospective at the New Museum
SFMoMA receives gift of 350 works and $10m bequest from late American trustees
The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone
Dutch government agrees to buy Rembrandt painting for €175m—despite connections to tax havens
The Standard Bearer has been purchased from the Rothschild family via a trust located in the Cook Islands
New York’s Metropolitan Museum buys four extremely rare Van Gogh prints
Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million
Rare Shakespeare First Folio acquired by Canadian university to go on view at Vancouver Art Gallery
The University of British Columbia has acquired a copy of the ‘First Folio’ that helped preserve some of the bard’s most famous plays, including ‘Macbeth’ and ‘The Tempest’
American Folk Art Museum gifted major work by itinerant 19th-century portraitist Ammi Phillips
‘Portrait of Frederick A. Gale’ is quintessential of Phillips’s paintings of children, who are the subjects of his most beloved works
Acquisitions round-up: Tate buys Hew Locke's airborne flotilla ahead of his major new commission in March
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
New ‘Caravaggio’ work—once estimated at €1,500 and now worth millions—offered to Spain
Old Master painting was pulled from auction last year—but will the government pay full market price?
Utah museum acquires works by Japanese American artist Chiura Obata made in internment camp
Obata was incarcerated at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah during the Second World War; now 35 of his works have been acquired by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts