Museum acquisitions
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Techno-design is go for museum collections
Works by Lorna Simpson, Július Koller, and Jimmie Durham make up the selections this year
The works selected reflect Tate's increasingly global outlook and support of young artists
£3.3m required for export-delayed object
Scholars no nearer to finding the faker’s identity
The supercharged shopping trip was worth £125,000 this year
For his partial donation of £125m worth of art, the dealer received £26.5m—the price he originally paid for the collection—tax free
Bigger Trees near Warter is 12m long and 4.5m high, and made up of 50 separate canvases
The faux-ethnographic sculptures may be the gallery's most expensive contemporary art purchase
The important Art Deco sculpture was purchased last year
The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
The Blue Rigi has been sold to an overseas collector, and after last year's loss of the Dark Rigi the pressure is on
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time
Will be shown in Surreal Things exhibition next year
The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection
As it is not accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council due to its deacquisition guidelines
This year's haul included video, installations, and photos but no paintings
French billionaire has recently sold works by Rothko, Warhol and Mondrian
The Art Newspaper requested full information
Purchased with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Arts Collection Fund
Serota discusses export laws and what is truly significant to public collections
A mysterious donor gives the Tate £12.5 million to buy Reynolds’ Omai but the Armouries fail to get Lottery support for two armours
An export licence deferral is now expected as the set of 19 watercolours sold to a Glasgow bookshop for a pittance in 2000 were sold to an overseas collector out from under the Tate
Objects sold by former owner
The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million
100 new contemporary objects on display
With £6m a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort
Purchased from artist's family, it is the most important work still in private hands