Museum acquisitions
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The privately owned Honresfield Library, which includes manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, was due to be scattered to global buyers at a Sotheby's auction before a British consortium stepped in
Among the works joining the museum’s collection are paintings by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley as well as a self-portrait by an artist who worked as a preparator at Lacma for decades
The McMullen Museum of Art is gaining works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, and others
The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Senseneb shabti is now on permanent display at Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum
The promised gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer includes paintings and sculptures by 20th-century European and American artists including Miró, Picasso and Guston
Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
London institution unveils refurbished Design 1900-Now space for its Rapid Response collection of objects that reveal "truths about how we live"
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
The controversial pastel stars in a show of new acquisitions in Amsterdam
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
The conceptual work by the Ghanian-Canadian artist Ekow Nimako addresses the cultural impact of Kumbi Saleh, the centre of the trans-Saharan trade route
Mixed-media montage by UK artist Endless was donated to the Florence museum
The announcement coincides with acquisitions of works by Gordon Parks, Kwame Brathwaite and Tunji Adeniyi-Jones
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's gift from collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong “opens up new horizons on surrealist activities”, says expert
The screenprints are an abridged version of the artist’s 41-panel tempera series devoted to the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture
The Cree artist says the work, on view in the museum's Great Hall, reflects on the “colonial version of history” in museum collections
103 forgotten works by the renowned Japanese artist resurfaced at a Paris auction after slipping out of sight for more than 70 years
The museum aims to rewrite the legacy of the historically male-dominated Land Art movement
Acquisition from the artist's estate heralds a wave of works being dispersed across UK public collections
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
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
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
Recently rediscovered 18th-century work by artist Joseph Wright of Derby was bought by the Los Angeles museum in March last year
Hire of French art historian Emmanuelle Polack suggests a more proactive stance on Nazi-era provenance research at Paris museum