Donations
This Hans Memling painting failed to sell at Christie's—now its owner has given it back to Bruges where it was painted over 500 years ago
The work was offered for sale at £1.5m to £2.5m in 2019 but US collector Bill Middendorf has decided to give it to the Belgian city
How a vast Käthe Kollwitz collection ended up at the Getty
Richard Simms, the 93-year-old donor, built up the enviable collection on a dentist’s salary starting in the 1960s
Yoruba prince donates more than 1,000 works of art to establish university museum in Nigeria
Yemisi Shyllon hopes other Nigerian collectors will follow his example and help found teaching museums that promote art education
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
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
Nan Goldin’s activist group storms the Musée du Louvre
Pain protestors demand that museum officials rename 12 rooms named after the Sackler family
The Met says it will stop accepting gifts from Sacklers associated with Purdue Pharma
The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family
UniCredit to sell off one of world's largest corporate art collections
The Italian bank, which just announced €1.4bn profit in first quarter of 2019, will offload some of the 60,000 works of art in order to fund social initiatives
Director of Pinault Collection proposes controversial 90% tax breaks for Notre Dame donors
But Pinault family says it is not seeking tax relief for its €100m donation towards the reconstruction effort
Photography gallery at Victoria and Albert Museum renamed after Elton John following 'significant' donation
The Rocket Man will organise a photography exhibition at the London institution with his husband David Furnish
Dallas school given largest collection of Swiss art outside of Switzerland
The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift
Major coup for Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe as it receives one of its biggest ever donations of works
Gallerist Claude Lemand and his wife France also set up a fund to support the museum
Vienna’s Albertina museum receives €90m donation of 1,323 works from Essl Collection
Works will be shown in a new home for contemporary art opening next year
Saudi Arabian foundation donates €9m to Berlin Museum of Islamic Art
Funds donated by Alwaleed Philanthropies will support exhibitions and education, including “Multaka” project to train refugees as museum guides
Gallerist Sean Kelly donates his James Joyce collection to The Morgan Library and Museum in New York
The museum will stage a comprehensive exhibition in 2022
Berlin art dealer and family donate art by Picasso, Warhol and Richter to city of Chemnitz
Bastian family have collaborated with the German city’s art collection since 2002
Dennis and Debra Scholl donate contemporary Aboriginal art to three US museums
The Miami collectors have given 200 Australian works to the Met, Frost and Nevada Museum of Art
Double Dutch: MFA Boston gets aligned gifts of 17th-century Netherlandish art, with work by Rubens, Rembrandt and van Dyck
The donation—the largest in the museum’s history—also include funds for a new study centre dedicated to the period
Tate Modern's extension renamed Blavatnik Building after record £50m donation
Ukrainian-born American businessman Len Blavatnik's gift is the largest-ever financial contribution to a UK museum
US collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays donate major collection to Musée d’Orsay
Gift of turn-of-the-century masterpieces is the largest received from a foreign donor since 1945<br>
Hollywood producer David Geffen gives $100m to MoMA
The donation will help fund the museum’s expansion, with three floors of the building to be named after the studio executive
Will Elton John donate classic photography works to Tate?
More than 150 modernist images drawn from the musician’s collection will go on show later this year
Jackie Chan’s bronzes draw critics and vandals to new Taipei museum
Anti-China activists throw paint on replica statues donated by the actor to new $250m branch of the National Palace Museum in south Taiwan
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation donates Iranian photographer's work to universities
Gift of Shirin Neshat's prints about the Arab Spring is meant to encourage discussions on race, religion and politics
UK dealers donate major contemporary works to Whitworth gallery in Manchester
Ivor Braka and Thomas Dane hope gift will encourage greater support for culture in the regions
Artists donate works to help pay for their Drawing Center shows
Non-profit gallery has turned to artists as "philanthropic community has become less supportive"
Leonardo DiCaprio plans to give environmental work to Lacma
Actor’s gift of Solar Reserve, last seen at Lincoln Center, is all about raising climate change awareness
Collectors' gift of Hockney and Freud to the Tate honours its director
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker have conferred an exceedingly generous donation on the gallery
Tate's Artangel Collection grows by nine works
The £2 million scheme to bring the 21-piece scheme to the public
Donations to UK national museums revealed: Tate receives lion's share
Out of a total of £193m, Tate's gifts by the likes of Hockney, Hirst, Bonnard and Bacon total £147m
Tate gets a helping hand from Oman as a 'modest' few million are put forward for Tate Modern 2
Given the Tate still needs over £100m, it is a welcome gift