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A gift of blue-chip Modern art comes to the Seattle Art Museum
The Friday Foundation, run by the heirs of collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang, has donated 19 works by artists including Bacon, Rothko, Krasner, Pollock, Frankenthaler, Kline and de Kooning
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Thanks to a £3m gift, the National Trust could finally uncover a secret portrait of Mary Queen of Scots
Conservation boost from a US charity comes after the heritage organisation faced a £200m revenue collapse due to the pandemic
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Trove of Surrealist publications and paintings donated to Dutch museum
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's gift from collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong “opens up new horizons on surrealist activities”, says expert
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Startup consultant and collector George Wells gives Morehouse College a million-dollar art collection
The historically Black men’s college in Atlanta, Georgia will receive works by Mickalene Thomas, Rashid Johnson, Amy Sherald, McArthur Binion, and Ivy Haldeman
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This Hans Memling painting failed to sell at Christie's—now its owner has given it back to Bruges where it was painted over 500 years ago
The work was offered for sale at £1.5m to £2.5m in 2019 but US collector Bill Middendorf has decided to give it to the Belgian city
NewsGerman art
How a vast Käthe Kollwitz collection ended up at the Getty
Richard Simms, the 93-year-old donor, built up the enviable collection on a dentist’s salary starting in the 1960s
NewsNigeria
Yoruba prince donates more than 1,000 works of art to establish university museum in Nigeria
Yemisi Shyllon hopes other Nigerian collectors will follow his example and help found teaching museums that promote art education
NewsMusée du Louvre
Nan Goldin’s activist group storms the Musée du Louvre
Pain protestors demand that museum officials rename 12 rooms named after the Sackler family
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The Met says it will stop accepting gifts from Sacklers associated with Purdue Pharma
The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family
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UniCredit to sell off one of world's largest corporate art collections
The Italian bank, which just announced €1.4bn profit in first quarter of 2019, will offload some of the 60,000 works of art in order to fund social initiatives
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Director of Pinault Collection proposes controversial 90% tax breaks for Notre Dame donors
But Pinault family says it is not seeking tax relief for its €100m donation towards the reconstruction effort
NewsAcquisitions
Photography gallery at Victoria and Albert Museum renamed after Elton John following 'significant' donation
The Rocket Man will organise a photography exhibition at the London institution with his husband David Furnish
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Dallas school given largest collection of Swiss art outside of Switzerland
The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift
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Major coup for Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe as it receives one of its biggest ever donations of works
Gallerist Claude Lemand and his wife France also set up a fund to support the museum
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Vienna’s Albertina museum receives €90m donation of 1,323 works from Essl Collection
Works will be shown in a new home for contemporary art opening next year
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Saudi Arabian foundation donates €9m to Berlin Museum of Islamic Art
Funds donated by Alwaleed Philanthropies will support exhibitions and education, including “Multaka” project to train refugees as museum guides
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Gallerist Sean Kelly donates his James Joyce collection to The Morgan Library and Museum in New York
The museum will stage a comprehensive exhibition in 2022
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Berlin art dealer and family donate art by Picasso, Warhol and Richter to city of Chemnitz
Bastian family have collaborated with the German city’s art collection since 2002
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Dennis and Debra Scholl donate contemporary Aboriginal art to three US museums
The Miami collectors have given 200 Australian works to the Met, Frost and Nevada Museum of Art
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Double Dutch: MFA Boston gets aligned gifts of 17th-century Netherlandish art, with work by Rubens, Rembrandt and van Dyck
The donation—the largest in the museum’s history—also include funds for a new study centre dedicated to the period
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Tate Modern's extension renamed Blavatnik Building after record £50m donation
Ukrainian-born American businessman Len Blavatnik's gift is the largest-ever financial contribution to a UK museum
NewsDonations
US collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays donate major collection to Musée d’Orsay
Gift of turn-of-the-century masterpieces is the largest received from a foreign donor since 1945<br>
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Hollywood producer David Geffen gives $100m to MoMA
The donation will help fund the museum’s expansion, with three floors of the building to be named after the studio executive
NewsExhibitions
Will Elton John donate classic photography works to Tate?
More than 150 modernist images drawn from the musician’s collection will go on show later this year
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Jackie Chan’s bronzes draw critics and vandals to new Taipei museum
Anti-China activists throw paint on replica statues donated by the actor to new $250m branch of the National Palace Museum in south Taiwan
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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation donates Iranian photographer's work to universities
Gift of Shirin Neshat's prints about the Arab Spring is meant to encourage discussions on race, religion and politics
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UK dealers donate major contemporary works to Whitworth gallery in Manchester
Ivor Braka and Thomas Dane hope gift will encourage greater support for culture in the regions
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Artists donate works to help pay for their Drawing Center shows
Non-profit gallery has turned to artists as "philanthropic community has become less supportive"
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Leonardo DiCaprio plans to give environmental work to Lacma
Actor’s gift of Solar Reserve, last seen at Lincoln Center, is all about raising climate change awareness
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Collectors' gift of Hockney and Freud to the Tate honours its director
Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker have conferred an exceedingly generous donation on the gallery
ArchiveArtangel
Tate's Artangel Collection grows by nine works
The £2 million scheme to bring the 21-piece scheme to the public
ArchiveTate
Donations to UK national museums revealed: Tate receives lion's share
Out of a total of £193m, Tate's gifts by the likes of Hockney, Hirst, Bonnard and Bacon total £147m
ArchiveTate Modern
Tate gets a helping hand from Oman as a 'modest' few million are put forward for Tate Modern 2
Given the Tate still needs over £100m, it is a welcome gift
ArchiveNovember 2010
'Jesuit priest' donates fraudulent works
Academic museums and universities are being targeted by a suspected art forger
ArchiveTate
Tate receives US boost as major patrons donate Salle, Steinbach, and Martin
American patrons have recently been very generous to the gallery, with both their art and their funds
ArchiveBasel
Basel's tunnel vision: Basel Kunstmuseum receives funding from Laurez Foundation for new extension
Local architects are responsible for plans to construct a tunnel that passes from the original site to the newly built annex
ArchiveKaiser Wilhelm Museum
Beuys’s site-specific work to stay put in Krefeld (for now)
Collector Helga Lauffs has donated the works, subject to conditions
ArchiveMay 2009
Chicago's industrialist benefactors built the city’s art collections—but can today’s patrons maintain them?
So far the next generation have yet to replicate their parents’ efforts on the same scale
ArchiveArt Gallery of New South Wales
“A quantum leap” for Australia as collector John Kaldor donates $35m-worth of art to AGNSW
Kaldor has donated work by Rauschenberg, Christo, LeWitt, Koons, Judd, and Gursky, among many others
ArchiveDavid Hockney
David Hockney donates his largest painting to Tate
Bigger Trees near Warter is 12m long and 4.5m high, and made up of 50 separate canvases
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Warhol Foundation report looks back on 20 years of philanthropy
Shedding light on the donations, grants, and gifts given by the foundation since Warhol's death
ArchiveMay 2007
Seattle Art Museum gets $1bn worth of art from 'incredibly devoted group of collectors'
The gift from 53 local patrons is one of the largest in the history of institutional donations
ArchiveStockholm
Stockholm museum gets more money for women’s art
Lena and Per Josefsson donate SEK3M
ArchiveLaw
New legislation could lead to the end of partial gifts to museums
Changes to US tax law could discourage collectors from giving
ArchiveAnthony d'Offay
Tate and Scottish National Gallery in talks to acquire d’Offay collection
Legendary dealer is thought to own 700 works worth £100m
ArchiveGeorg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz entrusts painting to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark
The director admitted they would not otherwise be able to obtain such a piece
ArchiveTate
Tate struggles to attract money for acquisitions
A year ago the gallery launched a campaign to raise £100 million. Since then, £50,000 has been pledged from donors
ArchiveExhibitions
Eclectic collector’s show raises questions at Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Visitors are confused and staff suggest that museum is neglecting its artistic mission
ArchiveMiami
Rubells donate $1 million worth of art to Tampa Museum
The institution has received 91 paintings by the Outsider artist Purvis Young
ArchiveAndy Warhol
US aluminium giant sends Warhol to Russia
The Alcoa Corporation is marking its entry into Russia by funding the tour of a Warhol Museum show
ArchiveChris Ofili
Tate: Conspiracy or cock-up over Ofili’s Upper Room?
Tate board member Chris Ofili calls on artists to donate work to the Tate whilst selling his own work to the Gallery.
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA committee to vote on major drawings collection gifted by Judith Rothschild Foundation
The foundation has offered the museum a collection of more than 2,500 drawings by 400 international artists
ArchiveMuseums
Rockefeller gives $100 million to MoMA
The money will go to the museum after his death, with yearly donations scheduled until that time
ArchiveMuseums
Heinz’s $4 million gift to the Warhol Museum
The gift increases the museum’s endowment to $7.1 million
ArchiveTate
Tate refused previous offer from Saatchi
Serota said no to 100 works in 1998, but is still keen to buy “major” pieces
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Warhol Foundation gives $10 million to artists
The money is being given to Creative Capital, a nonprofit picking up the slack in arts funding
ArchiveJoshua Reynolds
Acquisitions negotiations at Tate and The Armouries: You win some, you lose some
A mysterious donor gives the Tate £12.5 million to buy Reynolds’ Omai but the Armouries fail to get Lottery support for two armours
ArchiveArchives
A donation from the Kreitman Foundation has supported this month’s opening of a huge but little known archive of artists’ letters, notebooks, photos and ephemera
The trifles and hidden lives of artists
ArchiveMuseums
Senator investigates MoMA
The Federal Finance Committee aims to stop financial abuses at US museums
ArchiveApril 2001
Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
ArchiveDonations
How to maximise your tax benefit when donating art to charity
in the US, give to get
ArchiveCharles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi announces gift of 100 works of art, worth £500,000, to the Arts Council Collection
Is the gift an act of virtuous self-regard?
ArchiveJanet de Botton
Janet de Botton gives Tate free reign with her collection
Inspired by the Tate’s plans for Bankside, she gave the museum one third of her massive collection of modern art
ArchiveExhibitions
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: The frog and the swallow reunited
First ever show bringing together Mexico’s twin stars at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Switzerland
ArchiveTate
Bringing British art out of the shadows
Sir Edwin Manton, an American-based insurance executive, has donated £7 million ($11.2 million)
ArchiveAlexander Calder
Major gift of works by Calder to Chicago’s contemporary museum
This ups the museums holdings of the artist to 22
ArchiveExhibitions
William S. Paley’s remarkable collection revealed in exhibition at MoMA
Bequest of modern paintings and sculpture to tour American cities
ArchiveMuseums
A flood of pictures for MoMA as collector William S. Paley dies
The bequest, one of the largest in the museum's history, includes three of Gertrude Stein’s Picassos