Acquisitions
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
Nelson-Atkins Museum acquires one of the earliest daguerreotype portraits made in the US
The 1840 profile portrait is part of a collection of early photographic works by Henry Fitz Jr. that is joining the Kansas City museum’s holdings
Priceless literary manuscripts once thought lost are acquired by British library consortium
The privately owned Honresfield Library, which includes manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, was due to be scattered to global buyers at a Sotheby's auction before a British consortium stepped in
The Netherlands looks set to buy Rembrandt’s €165m 'Standard Bearer'
Owned by the Rothschild family, the vibrant painting is on the open market after France was unable to raise the funds to buy the national treasure
Archive of James Van Der Zee, once-ignored chronicler of Harlem, acquired by the Met
Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum
Miami Beach residents vote to acquire Farah Al Qasimi works for public art collection
As part of its Legacy Purchase Program, the city purchased two photographs and a wallpaper from the artist’s solo booth with Helena Anrather’s at Art Basel in Miami Beach
‘We had to give it our best shot’: inside the Getty’s record-setting Caillebotte acquisition
The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism
How an ancient Egyptian figure—with ties to Tutankhamun and Downton Abbey—found its way into a Sydney museum
Senseneb shabti is now on permanent display at Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum
Saint Louis Art Museum receives 22 major works from American philanthropist
The promised gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer includes paintings and sculptures by 20th-century European and American artists including Miró, Picasso and Guston
Tate fund buys works by international Modernists at Frieze
Photographs, paintings and mixed-media works by living artists from around the world will be added to Tate collection
Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus
Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove
Swiss landscape painting—once destined for Hitler’s Führermuseum—acquired by London’s National Gallery
Alexandre Calame’s Chalets at Rigi was sold in 1996 at an auction of unclaimed works with proceeds going to benefit victims of the Holocaust
K-Pop superstars BTS help present gift from Korean government to the Metropolitan Museum
The set of five richly coloured lacquer vessels by artist Chung Haecho will go on show in the New York museum this December
Sargent, Goya, Degas: Frick Collection welcomes its most significant gift to date of works on paper
The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection
American Folk Art Museum acquires 40 significant works by self-taught artists
Gift includes examples by Horace Pippin, Sister Gertrude Morgan and Bill Traylor
Acquisitions round-up: 90 new works by 45 artists purchased for the UK Government Art Collection
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Nancy Holt’s archives head to Smithsonian, opening the door for more land art works
From astronomical observations to personal photographs, the 50,000-piece collection includes documentation of unrealised works that the artist's foundation hopes to one day complete
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC announces gift of exceptional photographs dating from the 19th to 21st centuries
Stephen G. Stein’s donation includes notable examples of images by Gustave Le Gray, William Eggleston, Brassaï, Robert Frank, Sally Mann and others
Original 1978 rainbow flag designed by Gilbert Baker acquired by San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society
The banner, thought lost for more than 40 years, was recently authenticated by a vexillographer who had worked with the artist
Anti-racism posters, Nike trainers and Kim Kardashian's selfies go on show in Victoria and Albert Museum's new gallery of contemporary design
London institution unveils refurbished Design 1900-Now space for its Rapid Response collection of objects that reveal "truths about how we live"
Acquisitions round-up: parts of cut up 16th-century panel reunited after Washington, DC's National Gallery of Art buys missing half
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections