Acquisitions
Louvre wants to acquire Chardin’s famed strawberries painting—but needs €1.3m
LVMH group donates €16m towards work sold for €24m at auction
Cimabue ‘kitchen’ painting placed under export ban ends up at the Louvre
The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted
Tate, Fitzwilliam and Arts Council scoop up works at Frieze
Plus, the winners of prominent young and emerging artist prizes have been revealed
Acquisitions round-up: Paula Rego abortion etchings acquired by New York's MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars
Canadian Museum of History acquires artist’s memorial to victims of the country’s residential schools
Stanley C. Hunt’s memorial monument features carvings of 130 faces, representing Indigenous children whose remains were found in unmarked graves near a school site
Getty acquires artist Maren Hassinger’s archive
The septuagenarian artist, best known for her large-scale wire rope installations, has experienced a resurgence of attention from institutions and curators in recent years
Tibetan Buddhist shrine with more than 200 artefacts donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
The shrine comes from Alice S. Kandell, who amassed one of the most significant private collections of Tibetan Buddhist art in North America
SFMoMA acquires architectural capsule from Tokyo's famed Metabolist tower
Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was demolished last year, but 23 of its distinctive pods were preserved
186 Roy Lichtenstein works donated to museums in honour of the artist’s 100th birthday
Gifts will go to five institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art acquires more than 200 works by experimental film-maker Ken Jacobs
The museum has also restored Jacobs’s first film, “Orchard Street” (1955), which will be displayed in a gallery in November
Acquisitions round-up: rediscovered miniature by female Old Master added to US National Gallery of Art's collection
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Dallas Museum of Art acquires 12 works at Dallas Art Fair with annual gift
The museum spent $100,000 to bolster its collection thanks to funding from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation
Florida’s Norton Museum acquires John Singer Sargent portrait of socialite who sponsored Amelia Earhart
Sargent’s painting of Amy Phipps Guest, made at the peak of his success as a society portraitist, was gifted to the West Palm Beach museum by her grandson and his family
Three US museums use prize funds to acquire works from Expo Chicago
The institutions that won the fair's Northern Trust Purchase Prize selected artwork by artists Mohau Modisakeng, Wole Lagunju and Claudia Peña Salinas for their permanent collections
A series of recent lawsuits could change the way UK museums acquire works for their collections
Disputed attribution claims rarely play out in court, but two recent legal cases could provide valuable lessons for acquisitions teams at cultural institutions across the UK
Joshua Reynolds’s 'Portrait of Mai'—previously known as Omai—to be jointly acquired by the National Portrait Gallery and Getty Museum
The "icon of British portraiture" will be shown alternately between London and Los Angeles
Arts minister extends export ban (again) to help save Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai
The export deferral on the famed painting has been extended to 10 June, giving London’s National Portrait Gallery a few more weeks to work out a deal, possibly with the Getty
Emily Carr painting, unseen for more than a half-century, acquired by Canada’s Audain Art Museum
The painting was one of four Carr works featured in the first Canadian presentation at the Venice Biennale, in 1952
Acquisitions round up: the Met acquires 16th-century portrait of pope's banker
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Old Masters in Maastricht: What does Tefaf tell us about the market for historic art?
Plus, the Institut du Monde Arabe's major gift and expansion plans and an unflinching self-portrait by a Rococo woman artist
Could a deal with Getty Centre in Los Angeles save Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai for the UK?
As the painting’s export licence is due to expire, the Californian museum might step in to help keep it in the UK
Art Bridges acquires $4.5m Robert Colescott painting at Bonhams auction
The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton
Princeton University Art Museum acquires historic, record-breaking Native American basket
The large, woven basket by the the Mono Lake Paiute artist Wutoni won first prize at a 1929 competition and, in 2005, set an auction record for a Native American basket
Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs
The acquisition, the first of its kind by a major French public museum, includes works by Jonas Lund, Robness, Agnieszka Kurant and Sarah Meyohas
Mysterious NFT collector—who may actually be the rapper Snoop Dogg—gifts 22 blockchain works to Lacma
Pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de’ Medici gives Los Angeles County Museum of Art "largest collection of its kind in a US museum"
Bonhams owner floats sale of auction house at $1bn
Epiris private equity group, which owns the auction house, has reportedly approached JP Morgan Chase & Co to advise on the deal
Acquisitions round up: Art Institute of Chicago acquires Magdalena Abakanowicz's horsehair wall hangings
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Powerful Old Master painting of Saint Bartholomew bought by London’s National Gallery for almost $4m
Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York
Musée d’Orsay acquires Caillebotte masterpiece thanks to €43m donation from LVMH
“Boating Party” painting will tour France next year to mark Impressionism milestone
US National Gallery of Art acquires major work by overlooked Native American Abstract Expressionist
The untitled 1961 painting, by Chippewa artist George Morrison, is the first by a Native American member of the New York School movement in the NGA’s collection