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Acquisitions of the Month: February 2015

From the first printed bibles to contemporary Inuit sculpture and astrophotography…

1 Mar 2015

Acquisitions of the Month: January

New year, new acquistions: from Jérôme Bonaparte’s chandelier to an entire country cottage

31 Jan 2015

Acquisitions of the Month: October

The Metropolitan Museum gains a collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts, while Tate takes home some contemporary work from Frieze

2 Nov 2014

Acquisitions of the Month: September

From 17th-century embroideries to 20th-century photography: some notable recent museum acquisitions

30 Sep 2014

Acquisitions of the month: August

A quiet month for acquisitions, but not everyone’s been resting on their laurels…

31 Aug 2014

Acquisitions of the Month: July

Deaccessioning is in the news, but what of the museums that have been acquiring new work?

31 Jul 2014
North/south section-perspective through the new gallery spaces at The Museum of Modern Art, looking east along Fifty-third Street.

Apollo Awards 2015: Acquisitions of the Year Shortlist

The most significant artworks and artefacts to enter museum collections in the last 12 months

Muse Reviews

Exhibition reviews and previews: Bill Viola at Auckland Castle; Pablo Bronstein at Nottingham Contemporary; Joseph Cornell at the Royal Academy

4 Jul 2015

New scheme to get work by female artists into museums

Valeria Napoleone and the Contemporary Art Society are taking a proactive approach to a protracted issue

2 Jul 2015

Muse Reviews

In search of sculptures on London’s latest art trail; James Turrell heads for Norfolk; transforming Met and the V&A with film

6 Jun 2015

Muse Reviews

Yale institutions launch a Critique of Reason; a ‘fake’ in the Dulwich Picture Gallery; and a preview of Spring Masters New York

10 May 2015

The Week’s Muse: 4 April

News and comment from our April issue: Thomas Marks and John Curtis on the cultural desecration of Iraq; Don Quixote in NYC; plus, should the Kunstmuseum Bern have accepted the Gurlitt bequest?

4 Apr 2015

Art Outlook: 3 April

Tate Britain director and RA curator head for Europe; LACMA teams up with Hyundai; the UK’s fight to keep an ancient Egyptian statue continues; plus our favourite April Fools

3 Apr 2015

The Week’s Muse: 7 March

The iconoclasm of the Islamic State; highlights from TEFAF; the many sides of Paul Durand-Ruel; Britain’s top art school graduates; and the latest museum acquisitions

7 Mar 2015

The Week’s Muse: 31 January

From biplanes to drones, we look at the impact of the aerial viewpoint on modern and contemporary art. Plus, our round-up of this month’s major acquisitions

31 Jan 2015

Art Outlook: 13 November

Major gifts, controversial sales and record-breaking auctions

13 Nov 2014

The Week’s Muse: 8 November

Was the Musée Picasso worth the wait? Is the Turner Prize showing its age? News and comment from the Muse Room

8 Nov 2014

The Week’s Muse: 4 October

Art law and attribution; the Balfron Tower and Brutalism; and an end to love locks in Paris?

4 Oct 2014

The Week’s Muse: 2 August

40 Under 40; a gallery for Goldsmiths, art in Edinburgh; and a closer look at museum displays

2 Aug 2014

How national is the National Gallery in London?

The museum is founded on the collection of John Julius Angerstein and, 200 years later, the banker’s taste is still making itself felt

10 May 2024

The dealer who got the Parisian avant-garde round to decorate

For his Paris apartment, Léonce Rosenberg commissioned works from the likes of Picabia and de Chirico, fusing modernism and classic French style

7 May 2024

How Compton Verney stays ahead of the flock

Now 20 years old, the country house museum in Warwickshire has developed a distinctive approach to collecting – and it’s paying off handsomely

9 Apr 2024

Dealers draw together for Salon du Dessin

There are plenty of new discoveries to be made at the Paris fair focused on fine draughtsmanship

20 Mar 2024