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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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A print series of Jacob Lawrence’s earliest narrative cycle has been acquired by the Colby College Museum of Art
The screenprints are an abridged version of the artist’s 41-panel tempera series devoted to the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture
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The Met acquires Kent Monkman's grand diptych Mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)
The Cree artist says the work, on view in the museum's Great Hall, reflects on the “colonial version of history” in museum collections
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Trove of 'lost' Hokusai drawings acquired by British Museum
103 forgotten works by the renowned Japanese artist resurfaced at a Paris auction after slipping out of sight for more than 70 years
NewsMuseum acquisitions
Nevada Museum of Art acquires Judy Chicago’s full 'fireworks' archive
The museum aims to rewrite the legacy of the historically male-dominated Land Art movement
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While in lockdown, UK's Sainsbury Centre acquires major works by sculptor Elisabeth Frink
Acquisition from the artist's estate heralds a wave of works being dispersed across UK public collections
NewsExhibitions
From Modernist nudes to present-day politics: British Museum to reveal its contemporary Middle Eastern art collection
Free exhibition at the London museum in October will show around 150 works that have been collected since the early 1990s
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UK fails to save painting of 'paramount importance' as Getty export licence is granted
Recently rediscovered 18th-century work by artist Joseph Wright of Derby was bought by the Los Angeles museum in March last year
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Nazi loot expert joins Louvre to investigate its wartime acquisitions
Hire of French art historian Emmanuelle Polack suggests a more proactive stance on Nazi-era provenance research at Paris museum
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Christmas comes early: London's National Gallery raises enough money to buy Gentileschi masterpiece
The Finding of Moses is on display, but it will soon be moved to the newly refurbished Baroque room
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Permanent a-peel: $120,000 banana will enter museum collection
Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution
NewsOrazio Gentileschi
London's National Gallery launches public campaign to fund last £2m to buy Orazio Gentileschi masterpiece
The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II
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The Art Newspaper investigates Tate's documents on the Reynolds' Omai bid
The files included a letter from Serota himself
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Extinction Rebellion designs go on show at Victoria and Albert Museum
Flags, pamphlets and logos by the climate activists were acquired for museum's Rapid Response Collecting gallery, which also includes Pussyhats and emojis
ArchiveNational Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos aids Athens museum acquisitions
National Museum of Contemporary Art spends €50,000 on new works from Frieze
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Tate Acquisitions: Felix Gonzalez-Torres
The artist's work is among 287 purchases made by Tate in the last year
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Three of the best for Tate in this year's Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund acquisitions
Two new artists and an old favourite make the cut
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The story behind Matisse's Backs: Tate's bargain buy
The gallery paid £11,000 for the four bronze sculptures in 1957 - Christie's just sold one for $48.8m
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Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund adds to the Tate’s collection
Works by Lorna Simpson, Július Koller, and Jimmie Durham make up the selections this year
ArchiveDigital art
Art Institute of Chicago and London’s V&A keep pace with digital creativity in their collecting and curation
Techno-design is go for museum collections
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Tate looks to young international artists with £120,000 acquisition fund
The works selected reflect Tate's increasingly global outlook and support of young artists
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A sets sights on rare hunting horn
£3.3m required for export-delayed object
ArchiveFebruary 2009
'Spanish Forger' miniatures bought by V&A
Scholars no nearer to finding the faker’s identity
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Tate’s Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund picks bring new artists to the gallery
The supercharged shopping trip was worth £125,000 this year
ArchiveApril 2008
Anthony d’Offay deal with Tate and Scotland sets tax precedent for UK philanthropy
For his partial donation of £125m worth of art, the dealer received £26.5m—the price he originally paid for the collection—tax free
ArchiveDavid Zwirner
Zwirner deal with National Gallery of Art
Cohen photos go to Washington, DC
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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Tate buys Charles Saatchi’s Chapman sculptures
The faux-ethnographic sculptures may be the gallery's most expensive contemporary art purchase
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
V&A purchases Charles Sargeant Jagger's 'School for Scandal'
The important Art Deco sculpture was purchased last year
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Tate to buy more work by women
The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
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Tate launches appeal to buy Turner's Blue Rigi
The Blue Rigi has been sold to an overseas collector, and after last year's loss of the Dark Rigi the pressure is on
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Tate to launch campaign to buy Turner’s Blue Rigi for £5m–the highest price it has ever paid for a work of art
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time
ArchiveSalvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí tea set for V&A
Will be shown in Surreal Things exhibition next year
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What Tate bought at Frieze 2006
The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection
ArchiveMarch 2006
Tate is not a museum: Gallery could lose privileges
As it is not accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council due to its deacquisition guidelines
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Outside curators buy for Tate at Frieze
This year's haul included video, installations, and photos but no paintings
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA acquires key Hockney piece
MoMA’s $3 million cup of tea
ArchiveRobert Rauschenberg
Pinault sells Rauschenberg to MoMA for $30 million
French billionaire has recently sold works by Rothko, Warhol and Mondrian
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum and the attempt to buy Mantuan roundel
The Art Newspaper requested full information
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
V&A and British Museum join together to buy Buddha
Purchased with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and National Arts Collection Fund
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Tate director, Nicholas Serota: Recent art is patrimony too
Serota discusses export laws and what is truly significant to public collections
ArchiveWilliam Blake
Newly-discovered Blake watercolours go for £10 million - but not to the Tate
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
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
ArchiveMuseums
National Gallery and Getty fight over Raphael
The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million
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National Trust acquires £5.7 million worth of art for Nostell Priory
Objects sold by former owner
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Beyond the Glass Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum
100 new contemporary objects on display
ArchiveTate Modern
Funding the Tate: A £134 million achievement
With £6 million a year to raise, the budget of Tate Modern will require constant effort
ArchiveDavid Smith
David Smith's 'Wagon II' bound for the Tate
Purchased from artist's family, it is the most important work still in private hands
ArchiveTate
Important eighteenth-century and contemporary additions to Tate’s holdings
The works are from the Oppé collection and Janet Wolfson de Botton
ArchiveMuseum acquisitions
With the Castle Howard Guercino, Timothy Clifford has saved from export one more in a long line of masterpieces. Is he the last of Britain’s great acquirers?
The successes and (rare) failures of a passionate collector
ArchiveInterviews
An interview with Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
“It is impossible to say in advance when photography is an art and when it is not”
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Contemporary from the Froehlich Foundation and sculptures from the friends to swell ranks at Tate
Austrian industrialist Joseph Froehlich is loaning major works of German and American art to the museum while Friends of the Tate contribute several new gifts
ArchiveWilliam Morris
Victoria and Albert loses out on William Morris collection
Berger collection to go to Huntington after two-year silence from the London museum
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Letters: V&A has 6,000 pieces of glass to install
Installation of new glass gallery postponed for a year
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Vanbrugh at the V&A
Newly bought architectural albums on show
ArchiveAlexander Calder
Major gift of works by Calder to Chicago’s contemporary museum
This ups the museums holdings of the artist to 22
ArchiveNicholas Serota
Nick Serota on his second Tate rehang and his vision for what will be “one of the great museums of late twentieth-century art”
Defending his acquisitions and looking to the future, Serita talks on exhibitions and an international outlook
ArchiveGerman Reuinification
East Berlin museums chief defends his record, revealing how the East German museums sold in order to buy'
We did not pursue any party political nonsense on the Museum Island': Professor Günther Schade stands by his position