Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum

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

The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism

Senseneb shabti is now on permanent display at Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum

The promised gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer includes paintings and sculptures by 20th-century European and American artists including Miró, Picasso and Guston

Photographs, paintings and mixed-media works by living artists from around the world will be added to Tate collection

Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove

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

The set of five richly coloured lacquer vessels by artist Chung Haecho will go on show in the New York museum this December

The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection

Gift includes examples by Horace Pippin, Sister Gertrude Morgan and Bill Traylor

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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

Stephen G. Stein’s donation includes notable examples of images by Gustave Le Gray, William Eggleston, Brassaï, Robert Frank, Sally Mann and others

The banner, thought lost for more than 40 years, was recently authenticated by a vexillographer who had worked with the artist

London institution unveils refurbished Design 1900-Now space for its Rapid Response collection of objects that reveal "truths about how we live"

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The controversial pastel stars in a show of new acquisitions in Amsterdam

Institution says the work is being lent by the foundation that swooped in to rescue it when it was deaccessioned by the Newark Museum of Art

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections

Local couple donates 47 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Southerners and African Americans

The Pipes were originally made for performances dealing with death and mourning but will now serve less specific purposes

The museum, which did not disclose the price, says the work reflects a shift to a more idealised style

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After a proposed shutdown and sell-off in 2009, Brandeis University has repaired trust with donors, its director says

The educational aide will be part of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History

The Friday Foundation, run by the heirs of collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang, has donated 19 works by artists including Bacon, Rothko, Krasner, Pollock, Frankenthaler, Kline and de Kooning

The conceptual work by the Ghanian-Canadian artist Ekow Nimako addresses the cultural impact of Kumbi Saleh, the centre of the trans-Saharan trade route

Mixed-media montage by UK artist Endless was donated to the Florence museum