Trove donated by collector Audrey B. Heckler includes examples of European Art Brut and works by African-American artists

Dutch entrepreneur Rob Defares has donated €10m to the new initiative

Original book with nearly 30 images has been acquired by London's Courtauld Gallery and will go on display next year

103 forgotten works by the renowned Japanese artist resurfaced at a Paris auction after slipping out of sight for more than 70 years

Initiative follows accusations by employees of entrenched racism at the New York museum

Museum welcomes monumental 2018 works by Huma Bhabha and Sterling Ruby

Over 300 works chart the career of a feminist pioneer in revelatory detail

Government plans to buy 150 works to help overcome the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic

The gift from the late patron’s husband will also help create a photography endowment fund through the sale of some works

“Tall, dark, rather handsome”, his description of Gauguin in Breton garb

Arte Povera sculptor hopes that his donations of hundreds of works on paper will start a dialogue

Philanthropic couple’s promised donation to New-York Historical Society boosts collection’s 20th-century holdings

Franklin Sirmans, the director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, explains the impetus behind the Collectors Council’s largest group acquisition ever

Acquisition from the artist's estate heralds a wave of works being dispersed across UK public collections

Other institutions reflect on ethical concerns linked to Covid-19 material

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from £1m flower pyramids to an enigmatic portrait of a young black woman

Long-time patron wants ‘a clear understanding’ of how a new building can accommodate the permanent collection highlights it has funded

The Flemish painter was at the top of the museum’s wish list and helps fill a large gender gap in the collection

Works donated by a collecting couple include paintings by Bonnard, Vuilliard, Matisse, Braque, Caillebotte and many others

Free exhibition at the London museum in October will show around 150 works that have been collected since the early 1990s

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a pot by an African-American slave to the earliest depiction of Highland dress

Works from the Abraaj Group Art Prize will be managed by Art Jameel with some works going on show at the Dubai space Jameel Art Centre

The photographs will go on view in the New York museum's permanent collection galleries in May, along with a selection of works by other artists and a clip from the classic 1971 film Shaft

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an "erotic" depiction of Adam to a masterpiece by a female French painter

Painted while Grosz was living in exile, the work has remained in the family since 1944

With works by Judy Chicago, Tacita Dean, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Silke Otto-Knapp, the museum is one of many prioritizing acquisitions of art by women

The university has acquired five portraits of men and women who hold blue-collar jobs on campus

Recently rediscovered 18th-century work by artist Joseph Wright of Derby was bought by the Los Angeles museum in March last year

Ian and Annette Cumming set out to commission likenesses of people who would remain renowned

Hire of French art historian Emmanuelle Polack suggests a more proactive stance on Nazi-era provenance research at Paris museum