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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month agoChicago's Intuit Art Museum gifted 61 works by self-taught artists
One of those early supporters was Jan Petry (1939-2024), a Chicago advertising executive who filled her home with outsider art. Petry bequeathed 47 works, some by anonymous artists-including an Odd Fellows carved wood staff dating from 1880-and others by Emery Blagdon, James Castle, Ulysses Davis, Charles Dellschau, William Hawkins, Martín Ramírez, Günther Schützenhöfer and Leopold Strobl. Charles Dellschau, Fall Not, 1920 Collection of Intuit Art Museum, gift of Jan Petry and Angie Mills
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month agoAcquisitions round-up: a 17ft sculpture by Anselm Kiefer, a $1.7m dinosaur skull, and a 17th-century genre painting
Major museums are acquiring and receiving significant contemporary artworks and rare paleontological specimens for public research and display.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months agoMore US artists forced to pay for their own shows as museum and culture budgets shrink
Artists increasingly must subsidize production costs for museum commissions and exhibitions, while support funds like Fountainhead fall far short of pervasive financial need.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago15 Landmark Museum Acquisitions in 2025
For instance, the Louvre did not own a single video artwork until this year, when Mohamed Bourouissa's piece documenting the Tuileries Garden made its way into the collection. Acquisitions also illustrate networks of power and exchange in the art world. One of Tate Modern's big gets, a stunning Joan Mitchell triptych, came from none other than Miami-based developer and museum founder Jorge Pérez and his wife Darlene.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 months ago'A static collection is a dead collection': how the British Museum is acquiring for a global public
The Sir Percival David Foundation gifted a near-£1bn Chinese ceramics collection to the British Museum, expanding its Chinese holdings to 10,000 pieces.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 months agoChinese prints and a rare stringed wood carving by Barbara Hepworth: the latest museum acquisitions
Major museums acquired significant Suzhou polychrome woodblock prints and a rare Barbara Hepworth wood carving, expanding collections with preserved, cross-cultural artworks.
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fromForbes
5 months agoEveryday Rebellions: A Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Asks You To Contemplate
Everyday Rebellions showcases new acquisitions to examine feminist-informed methodologies and integrates the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art with the Brooklyn Museum's historic collections.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 months agoArt lovers rejoice: the National Gallery can finally show us when painting really gets exciting | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
The National Gallery will drop its 1900 cut-off to include 20th-century painting, enabling display of influential late works like Cezanne's Bathers.
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