Museum acquisitions
Hans Arp’s estate gifts 220 sculptures to ten museums around the world
Many of the gifted works will go to European institutions, while others are bound for Boston, Dallas and Melbourne
San Diego's museums of art and photography will merge
The Balboa Park cultural mainstays will form one institution, effective 1 July
Acquisitions round-up: rediscovered miniature by female Old Master added to US National Gallery of Art's collection
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The oldest Hebrew Bible in existence breaks auction record for a manuscript at Sotheby's
The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994
Lacma supporters raise $2m and make ten acquisitions for the museum, including Nick Cave Soundsuit and Hawaiian queen’s bedcloth
The museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend provides a major boost to its holdings
A series of recent lawsuits could change the way UK museums acquire works for their collections
Disputed attribution claims rarely play out in court, but two recent legal cases could provide valuable lessons for acquisitions teams at cultural institutions across the UK
Seattle Art Museum receives 48 Calder works and $10m from former Microsoft president and his wife
The trove of works from Jon and Kim Shirley includes many mobiles and stabiles, and comes with a commitment to fund ongoing programming on the artist
Major Bill Traylor painting that previously belonged to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is gifted to the American Folk Art Museum
The painting, which belonged to the late playwright Lanford Wilson, was donated to the museum by his Circle Repertory Company co-founder, Tanya Berezin
Acquisitions round up: the Met acquires 16th-century portrait of pope's banker
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London to get free, permanent David Bowie display as Victoria and Albert Museum acquires archive
Costumes, albums, lyrics and videos from 80,000-strong collection will go on show at the V&A East Storehouse from 2025
Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs
The acquisition, the first of its kind by a major French public museum, includes works by Jonas Lund, Robness, Agnieszka Kurant and Sarah Meyohas
Mysterious NFT collector—who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg—gifts 22 blockchain works to Lacma
Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"
Acquisitions round up: Art Institute of Chicago acquires Magdalena Abakanowicz's horsehair wall hangings
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Powerful Old Master painting of Saint Bartholomew bought by London’s National Gallery for almost $4m
Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York
SFMoMA acquires its first NFT, a work by tech art pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson
The museum is one of the most prominent to date to acquire a blockchain-backed digital artwork for its permanent collection
New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman
According to the museum, the portrait by Giovanni Battista Moroni is “the most significant Italian Renaissance painting” it has acquired in more than half a century
Acquisitions round up: Wu Tsang's immersive installation from Venice Biennale heads to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Three US museums win prize to fund acquisitions at Expo Chicago fair
Museums in Seattle, St Louis and St Petersburg will make purchases at the Chicago fair next year thanks to the Northern Trust Purchase Prize
Art equity is still a long way off in US institutions, new study reveals
Extensive new research across 31 US museums reveals that works by female artists make up just 11% of acquisitions, while Black American artists of all genders account for only 6.3% of exhibitions
Little progress is being made in diversifying US museum acquisitions, report preview finds
Data from the Burns Halperin Report 2022, published 13 December, shows the limited purchasing power of museums and how much they rely on donors to shape their collections
Acquisitions round-up: the first painting by Swiss avant-garde artist Ferdinand Hodler to head to London's National Gallery
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Acquisitions round-up: National Museum of Women in the Arts receives bequest of more than 60 works
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The first major ‘pandemic art’ comes to the Whitney Museum
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s eight-part film "2 Lizards" was acquired by the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art in 2021
Brazil turns 200—and its National Museum rises from the ashes
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
The greatest portrait by one of the finest British artists: London's National Portrait Gallery aims to raise £50m to buy Reynolds's Omai
If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum
Acquisitions round-up: Tate gets Indigenous Australian art and Ohio's Toledo Museum swaps Impressionist paintings for a Kerry James Marshall
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Jewel box museum of Old Master artworks reopens in San Diego
The Timken Museum of Art, the only museum with a Rembrandt on public display in San Diego, underwent a major two-year renovation
Acquisitions round-up: Gordon Parks photographs head to the 'mecca of Black education' Howard University in Washington, DC
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Princeton Museum acquires rare work by Pre-Raphaelite painter Rebecca Solomon
The museum acquired “A Young Teacher” at a recent Sotheby’s auction, where it sold for more than ten times its high estimate
Acquisitions round-up: Greek entrepreneur Dimitris Daskalopoulos donates hundreds of works to four international museums
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