Spain’s national museum of contemporary art has purchased 470 works, most by women, and many by artists from ethnic minorities

The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ

The gifts, from the foundation of the late trustee Aso O. Tavitian, will allow the Massachusetts museum to build a new wing

The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro will get around 270 works for its collection and funds to renovate its building

Maria Sibylla Merian was accused of exploiting native knowledge of enslaved people without credit for her 1705 book Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium

The monumental works highlight both the might and the fragility of US government institutions

It is the first US-museum acquisition of a work by the talented pupil of Jacques-Louis David

Richard Hedreen is donating a collection valued at $300m and $25m cash to create an art museum at Seattle University

Famous 18th-century work will tour France, heading to Lens and Brest

The gallery couldn’t afford the price, of just under £20,000

The performance by Jefferson Pinder is one of more than 100 new acquisitions recently announced by the institution

Omitted from the 1920s book, next September the masterpiece will star in a London blockbuster on Vincent’s art of Provence

The provocative robotic piece was first announced more than five years ago

The 15 works, donated by two collecting couples, will form the core of an exhibition in autumn 2024

The gifted works are predominantly by woman-identifying and Bipoc artists, including pieces by Huma Bhabha, Arthur Jafa, Adrian Piper, Jennie C. Jones and Cindy Sherman

The acquisitions mark a new partnership between the museum and Bay Area non-profit Creative Growth Art Center; the museum also acquired works from Creativity Explored and Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development

The shrine comes from Alice S. Kandell, who amassed one of the most significant private collections of Tibetan Buddhist art in North America

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The piece by Pieter Coecke van Aelst remains in Spain but Jonathan Ruffer wants to show it at his new Faith Museum in County Durham

The installation spotlights health workers that helped underserved communities in Baltimore at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic

Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was demolished last year, but 23 of its distinctive pods were preserved

Many of the gifted works will go to European institutions, while others are bound for Boston, Dallas and Melbourne

The Balboa Park cultural mainstays will form one institution, effective 1 July

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The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994

The museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend provides a major boost to its holdings

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

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

The painting, which belonged to the late playwright Lanford Wilson, was donated to the museum by his Circle Repertory Company co-founder, Tanya Berezin

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