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

Richard Simms, the 93-year-old donor, built up the enviable collection on a dentist’s salary starting in the 1960s

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a rising star of Weimar-era Berlin to a Bohemian Virgin and Child

Culture ministry blocked export of medieval work but will the French state proceed with purchase?

The Finding of Moses is on display, but it will soon be moved to the newly refurbished Baroque room

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution

The historic documents “highlight the complexities of documenting America’s ‘peculiar institution’”

Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders

From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all

The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an 800-year-old figure of Christ to a rediscovered Delacroix painting

Bequest comes from New York collector Jayne Wrightsman, who amassed an 18th-century library to complement her celebrated French furnishings

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist terrier to vintage prints by Vivian Maier

The brightly coloured painting, depicting the same family scene, has been in private hands for decades, most recently the Chilean Alana Collection