Acquisitions
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The purchases come courtesy of the Contemporary Art Society Collections Fund and the Frieze Tate Fund
The Bathers drew protests in 1964 when London's National Gallery bought it for £475,000 and there were fears it would be vandalised
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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
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum
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
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 late British artist envisioned that his collection would be acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, which rejected the offer due to provenance concerns
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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
Chief executive says latest acquisition is part of his strategy to stay local while going global
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
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The Museum of Modern Art plans to hold a major exhibition of the German artist’s work in the near future
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
The collection was amassed by Whitney and Lee Kaplan, who own and operate Arcana: Books on the Arts, beginning in the 1980s
The acquisition includes pieces by Sanford Biggers, Rashid Johnson, Ghada Amer, Derrick Adams and others
Major acquisitions, complementary showcases plus a New Yorker cover coincide with the artist’s retrospective at the New Museum
The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone
The Standard Bearer has been purchased from the Rothschild family via a trust located in the Cook Islands
Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million
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’
‘Portrait of Frederick A. Gale’ is quintessential of Phillips’s paintings of children, who are the subjects of his most beloved works
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Old Master painting was pulled from auction last year—but will the government pay full market price?
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
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
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
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