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Museums in Seattle, St Louis and St Petersburg will make purchases at the Chicago fair next year thanks to the Northern Trust Purchase Prize
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
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
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki’s eight-part film "2 Lizards" was acquired by the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art in 2021
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
The Timken Museum of Art, the only museum with a Rembrandt on public display in San Diego, underwent a major two-year renovation
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
The museum acquired “A Young Teacher” at a recent Sotheby’s auction, where it sold for more than ten times its high estimate
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
The Museum of Modern Art plans to hold a major exhibition of the German artist’s work in the near future
The José Clemente Orozco will go on show at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library in early 2023 as part of a show about the famed Mexican muralist
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The seven pieces, the first Tek has donated since forming a partnership with the Los Angeles institution in 2018, are featured in a current exhibition
The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone
Ward re-created the funerary work in 2020, decades after a standout debut at the Whitney Biennial; it has now been acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art
Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million
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The work, dedicated to incarcerated women on Rikers Island, was completed in 1972 and was once almost completely destroyed
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
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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